Introduction: In the past, 1 kind of wild vegetables, but now because of the smell and dislike, I don't know that it is a precious "rheumatic grass"
Spring is coming, and after a spring rain, all kinds of wild vegetables are scrambling to sprout, and both rural and urban people can see them picking wild vegetables everywhere. As the old saying goes, "eat buds in spring, you will be healthy all year round", and tasting some wild vegetables in spring can be regarded as a kind of respect for spring.
There are many wild vegetables that can be eaten in spring, such as the more popular Qingming vegetables, mugwort leaves, spring shoots, camelin, malantou, purslane, wolfberry leaves, small root garlic and so on. These wild vegetables have a unique taste and are rich in nutrients, and have always been the object of picking.
There are many types of wild vegetables, not everyone likes to eat every wild vegetable, and there are some wild vegetables in the countryside that are not popular. For example, the wild vegetable we want to share today, it is a very annoying wild vegetable, because its taste is very bad, like, so it is not welcome.
I believe many people have guessed that this wild vegetable is the famous chicken poop vine in the countryside, named for its smell like. Chicken poop vine, just hearing its name is not welcome, it will remind people of chicken poop smell is disgusting, so it is not popular at all.
However, in the past era of hunger, the uncle farmer did not have the qualifications to pick fat and thin in order to fill his stomach, as long as it was a wild vegetable that could be eaten, everyone would rush to eat, and vine was no exception.
Chicken poop vine is a winding grassy vine of the family Rubiaceae, which likes to grow next to villages, roadsides, hillsides, valleys, and wilderness shrubs, and is distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Fujian, Anhui, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Shandong, Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other provinces and regions in the mainland.
Anyone who knows chicken poop vine knows that although its name is disgusting, its plants are luxuriant, especially its leaves grow verdant and turquoise, which looks a little similar to the He Shou Wu that we are very familiar with, and unfamiliar people often recognize it, but as long as you smell the smell it is easy to distinguish.
In addition, the chicken poop vine is also very beautiful when it blooms, and it does not smell like its branches and leaves, but has a faint fragrance, strings of lilac delicate flowers, which have certain ornamental value.
Although vine is not welcome, some older generations will pick some of its young leaves to make wild vegetables to eat, which can be made into a variety of delicious dishes, but it is a folk delicacy, such as pastries, rice balls, dumplings, sugar water, etc., and even some folk also have the tradition of eating vine.
The so-called "knowledge is treasure, not recognition is grass", many people do not know, vine is still a Chinese medicinal material with excellent efficacy, its medicinal whole herb, with the effect of dispelling wind and dehumidification, anti-inflammatory and detoxification, moisturizing the intestines and laxation, eliminating food and retardation, can play a great role in life.
Some old people who understand it will pick some branches and leaves of vine every year to cut off and dry and store, every three to five used to make tea or soup to drink, children drink to help digestion, the elderly drink has a certain miracle effect on rheumatism, so many old people also call it "rheumatic grass".
Dear friends, is there such a vine in your hometown? In the past, it was a wild vegetable that everyone rushed to eat, but now it is disliked because of its smell, and it is not known to be a precious "rheumatic grass". If you meet it in your hometown, please cherish it, don't dislike it stinks, its value is really great.