Introduction: The leaves are like dandelions, the roots are like ginseng, and the folk are commonly known as "Huan Yang Ginseng", if you meet in your hometown, it is a blessing
There is no idle grass in the countryside, and it is a treasure to use it well. A wide variety of weeds grow in the countryside, all of which have their own characteristics and uses. And they are all natural wild, not afraid of wind and sun and harsh winters, and their vitality is very tenacious.
Wild grasses with such tenacious vitality are naturally very valuable in themselves. For example, dandelion is very familiar to everyone, it is not only a delicious wild vegetable, but also a Chinese medicinal herb with excellent effects, which is a good help for certain diseases in our body.
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The weed that the author shared with you today, its leaves grow particularly like dandelions, it is difficult for ordinary people to distinguish, often used as dandelions to pick, and only after eating it will know that it is bitter, more bitter than dandelions, this weed is the famous bitter butterfly vegetable in rural areas.
Because its flowers are more special, only one flower, and the leaves are like dandelions, so it is also known as "one-flowered dandelion". In fact, its scientific name is called False Radix Ginseng. In some places, it is also called bitter butterfly, fine small bitter wattle, hugging stem bitter horsetail, sharp cracked cucumber vegetable and other aliases.
Bitter butterfly is an annual or biennial plant of Asteraceae, mostly born on hillsides, grasslands, roadsides, fields, wastelands, etc., distributed in Guizhou, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Anhui, Beijing, Gansu, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Shaanxi, Shandong, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Shanxi, Hebei, Henan and other provinces and regions on the mainland.
The leaves of bitter butterfly vegetables are spread on the ground, not only look like dandelions, but also an edible wild vegetable, the taste of both wild vegetables is bitter, but bitter butterfly vegetables are more bitter than the taste of dandelions, which is also the origin of called bitter butterfly vegetables.
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People who know bitter butterfly vegetables know that its young leaves can be used for stir-frying, cold mixing, filling, shabu-shabu, fried eggs, dipping sauce, etc., but it has a bitter taste, so blanch it with boiling water before eating, so that it will be more delicious.
Moreover, bitter butterfly vegetables are also rich in dietary fiber, protein, amino acids, fiber, vitamin C, iron, calcium, zinc and a variety of minerals, which have good health value and are much higher than the nutritional content of ordinary vegetables.
In fact, bitter butterfly vegetables can not only be eaten with young leaves, but also have higher root value, look exactly like "ginseng", and are known as "Yang ginseng" in the folk. Hometown people often use its root for soup to drink, such as chicken soup, rib soup, keel soup, etc., although the taste is bitter, but the good medicine is bitter, and the effect of clearing heat and detoxification is good.
Bitter butterfly vegetable can be used in medicine as a whole herb, especially the root value is high, with the effect of clearing heat and detoxification, cooling blood and reducing swelling, strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach, invigorating qi and replenishing blood, and has a certain effect on virus colds, waist and knee soreness, dizziness, tinnitus, impotence and premature ejaculation, coronary heart disease, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, dysentery, hemorrhoids, constipation, bruises and other diseases.
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Therefore, it is said that "there is no idle grass in the countryside, and it is a treasure to use it well". In fact, each weed has its own value and use, and when we really understand these weeds, you will have respect for them and play a big role in critical times.
Dear friends, is there such a bitter butterfly dish in your hometown? Its leaves grow like dandelions, the roots resemble ginseng, folk commonly known as "Huan Yang ginseng", if you meet in your hometown is a blessing, quickly dig and take home.