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Today, the author shares with you this kind of weed, presumably many people have seen it, because of its strange leaf shape, similar to duck's feet, and it is a kind of folk often eaten wild vegetables, so in the folk everyone calls it duck's foot vegetables, some people also call it duck's feet grass.
Actually, its botanical name is beetroot. It also has a well-known alias called Guangdong Liu Jinu, Liu Yu, Emperor Wu of the Southern Song Dynasty, its nickname is Jinu, and beet seeds are a plant named after the emperor's nickname, which shows how precious it is.
Beet seed is a perennial herbaceous plant of the family Asteraceae, the leaves of the mugwort plant are pinnate split, similar to the shape of the mugwort leaves, so there are also duck's foot mugwort, five finger mugwort other names. In addition, pearl cauliflower, wild celery, white wormwood, four seasons, sweet wormwood, wild red celery, etc. are its aliases.
Beet seeds grow in rural roadsides, village edges, field edges, grasslands, hillsides, ditch edges, underforests, forest edges, etc., which used to be wild, and now most of them are domestic species, mainly distributed in Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Fujian, Jiangxi, Anhui, Zhejiang and other provinces and regions in the mainland.
Anyone who knows beetroot knows that it is an erect herbaceous plant, up to about one meter high, most of them are only about 30 centimeters, the leaves are pinnate split, similar to mugwort leaves, the leaf color looks very green, but its stem is red, so some people call it "red wormwood".
Beets not only look like mugwort leaves, but they are also very high-quality wild vegetables like mugwort leaves. However, mugwort leaves have a unique flavor of mugwort leaves, while beet seeds have a faint sweetness when tasted, which is why they are called beet seeds.
The young leaves of beetroot seeds can be used for stir-frying, cold dressing, making soup, boiling noodles, shabu-shabu, etc., in addition, it can also be made into Qingtuan, meatballs, etc., which has a unique flavor to eat, and the nutrients are also quite rich, which is incomparable to many planted vegetables.
The head inflorescence of beetroot is white, it is a spike inflorescence composed of about 10 inflorescences, the flowers are small and the fruits are small, it looks so ordinary in the folk, but its value is very large, and it can solve many small problems in our bodies in life.
Beetroot and its whole herb can be used as medicine, with the effect of clearing heat and dampness, reducing inflammation and relieving cough, breaking blood and menstruation, eliminating accumulation and swelling, and has curative effects on chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, amenorrhea, menstrual irregularities, leucorrhoea, dysentery, dyspepsia, nephritis edema, skin sores, skin dampness and other diseases.
Because beetroot has a certain protective effect on the liver, the older generation calls it "liver grass", which has been widely circulated among the people. It is precisely because of its preciousness that people who know the goods will dig some and take them home, which was very common in the countryside in the past, and now everyone has planted, and the effect of medicine and food is good.
Dear friends, do you have this kind of beetroot in your hometown? Its leaves resemble duck's feet, and everyone is rushing to plant the well-known "liver-raising grass" in the countryside, which is now rare and precious. If you meet it in your hometown, transplant it and bring it home and plant it, because it is precious!
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