The body is full of thorns, the young leaves are the best wild vegetables, and the fruit is a snack of childhood, do you know?
Rural wild grasses are treasures, and some wild grasses are still Chinese herbal medicines with high medicinal value, which have a good therapeutic effect on some diseases of the body.
For friends who grow up in the countryside, they will also know some wild grasses, such as motherwort, houttuynia cordata, horse chestnut flower, brother king, jack-of-the-millennia, charcoal mother, cow tendon grass, stone toad, etc., which are common medicinal and food homologous weeds in rural areas.
The following is an introduction to a common weed in the countryside, this weed has a very strange name, called the shoulder plate return. Shoulder plate is also called tiger, cat windmill, snake, thorn, flower wheat, snake backwards and other aliases.
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The stem is snaked, angular, with inverted barbs at the corners, and its leaves are triangular, with small barbs on the petioles, edges of the leaves, and dorsal veins.
It can be said that the shoulder plate is full of thorns, and if you are not careful, you will stab your hand. There is a legend in the folklore that the snake encounters the saying that it cannot run away from the board, hence the name snake.
The flowers are white and bluish-purple, but the fruit is very strange, spherical and black.
This black fruit is one of the few snacks we had when we were young, and it has a sour taste and a different taste, but after eating it, its mouth turns black.
Shoulder plate return is generally born on the edge of the village, slope, river, roadside, stream side of the weeds, if you grow in the countryside, the shoulder plate return must not be unfamiliar.
Because the piggyback is the wild grass that farmers used to feed the pigs, I remember when I was a child, I went to cut the pig vegetables every holiday, and the young leaves of the plate return were the wild vegetables that the pigs liked to eat the most, and a cut was a big basket, but more.
The young leaves of the shoulder plate are also good wild vegetables, which can be processed into delicious dishes, with a sour taste, very under the rice, so that you want to eat another bowl after eating a bowl.
In fact, the shoulder plate is still a kind of Chinese herbal medicine with high medicinal value, and its medicinal whole grass has the effect of clearing heat, detoxification, water and dehumidification, and can be used for colds, dry lungs and coughs, hot and humid intestinal tract, wet skin, turbid urine, hemorrhoids, venomous snake bites and other diseases.
Shoulder plate return is a set of feeding, food, medicine for a body of treasure, in the folk is quite precious, every summer and autumn, it is the best season to pick the shoulder plate, can be used fresh, can also be dried and spare, occasionally take to soak water to drink, can remove the moisture in the body, is conducive to human health.
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