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Speaking of Chinese herbal medicine, we are more familiar with plantain, motherwort, wormwood, houttuynia cordata, white-flowered snaketongue grass, goose does not eat grass, etc., which are commonly used in folk herbs. And the herb that the author shares today, it used to be a well-known "pig feeding vegetable" in the countryside, but few people know its value.
Although there are many pig vegetables that can be fed to pigs in the countryside, this kind of "pig feeding vegetables" is the most famous among the people, because there will be a goose intestine-like core after its stem is broken, so it is called goose intestine grass, and some places are also called goose intestine vegetables, chicken intestines, chicken intestine vegetables, etc.
Actually, it has a very nice botanical scientific name called chickweed. Why is it called chickweed? In the summer, you will know, it grows on the ground, it grows on the ground, it grows in a large area, it grows very luxuriantly, and there is a wisp core in the middle of the stem, so the ancients named it chickweed.
There are many aliases about chickweed, such as five-clawed dragon, black cloud grass, monk grass, wild ink cabbage, dog flea vegetables, goose wonton, goose tendon grass, cramp vegetables, grass, etc., it is a perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Chickweed in the caryophylliaceae family, and it is a very common weed in rural areas.
We can see chickweed in rural vegetable fields, wells, fields, grasslands, hillsides, roadsides, ditches, etc., because of its strong adaptability, cold and heat resistance, and moisture resistance, it can be wild in most provinces and regions of the mainland, especially in summer.
Chickweed is a dwarf plant, the plant height is about 30 cm, the stem grows very small, but the old stem internodes are up to 8 cm, the stem is light green, the stem nodes are light purple, and there is a shaft in the middle after breaking, like a goose intestine, which is also the unique feature of chickweed.
In addition, the chickweed flowers are also unique when they bloom, the color of the flowers is white, but they are very small, and there are many of them, and they are full of small white flowers all year round, like white stars, which are particularly beautiful. When mature, the seeds are scattered everywhere, and it is a plant with extremely vigorous fecundity.
Many of the older generation know that in the past, when every household raised pigs, chickweed was a well-known pig feeding dish in the countryside. Because it grows extremely vigorously, it is very easy to pick, and it can grow again very quickly, which is a good source of pig feed, and pigs especially like to eat it.
At the same time, the young stems and leaves of chickweed are also a kind of high-quality wild vegetables, which can be used for stir-frying, making soup, cold dressing, boiling noodles, shabu-shabu, etc.
Chickweed can be used as both edible and medicine, and its whole herb can be used as medicine, which has the effect of invigorating blood and removing stasis, detoxification and diuretic. It is recorded in the "Taiping Shenghui Fang": "Eating chickweed for a long time can make black hair", indicating that chickweed has a good black hair effect, so it was also called "black hair grass" in the past, and the effect is very large.
Dear friends, do you have this kind of chickweed in your hometown? It is a well-known "pig-feeding vegetable" in the countryside, and the old people call it "black hair grass", but unfortunately there are very few people who know its value. If you meet in your hometown, please pay attention to it in time!
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