Commonly known as bitter grass among the people, it has branches and leaves in spring and summer, and small yellow flowers bloom in autumn. It has a strong smell of rancid bean paste, so the ancients called it "soy sauce grass".
There is another kind of bitter vegetable that grows on rocks. Its leaves are slightly yellow in color and have obvious cracked teeth at the leaf tips. Its taste is more bitter and the odor is stronger. Its medicinal name is Tomb Touhui. It has high medicinal value and is called rock bitter vegetable.
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Bitter herbs
The young leaves of the Asteraceae plant Kudingcai. Medicinal and edible perennial herbs. The medicine's name is Baijiangcao, and its aliases are Girl's Flower and Deer Intestine Horse Grass. Commonly known as bitter cabbage among the people, it is also known as coriander, tea bitter pod, sweet potato, stork, coriander, etc. Because its leaves are like snakes, it is also called snake and insect seedlings in Shandong.
It tastes sweet and slightly bitter and can be eaten stir-fried or served cold. When cold dressing, first select and wash the bitter vegetables, lightly blanch them in water, dry and let cool, mince the ginger and garlic, add salt, chicken essence, sesame oil, white sugar, rice vinegar and a little chili oil, stir evenly and put it on a plate. It has antibacterial, antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, and eyesight-improving effects.
food value
(1) Prevent and treat anemia, relieve summer heat and provide health care. Bitter vegetables are rich in carotene, vitamin C, potassium salts, calcium salts, etc., which play a good role in preventing and treating anemia, maintaining normal physiological activities of the human body, promoting growth and development, and relieving summer heat.
(2) Clear away heat, detoxify, sterilize and reduce inflammation. Bitter greens contain ingredients such as dandelion sterol and choline, which have strong bactericidal effects on drug-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus and hemolytic streptococci. wait.
It has a certain killing effect, so it has certain curative effects on jaundice hepatitis, pharyngitis, bacterial dysentery, cold and fever, chronic tracheitis, tonsillitis, etc.
(3) Prevention and treatment of cancer. Bitter vegetable decoction has a significant inhibitory effect on blood cell deoxygenase in patients with acute lymphoid leukemia and acute and chronic myelogenous leukemia. It can also be used to prevent and treat cervical cancer, rectal cancer, and anal cancer.
medicinal value
Health care principles and functions:
Bitter hemp has obvious effects on patients with diabetes, because diabetes is a typical endocrine disorder - a disease of wealth. According to the five flavors of food: bitter, spicy, sour, sweet, and astringent, we usually eat too much sweet food and very little bitter food. Therefore, food nutrition imbalance over time leads to endocrine disorders.
Bitter hemp is a dry and astringent thing, which can make up for the five flavors of modern diet and is excellent for diabetics. In fact, everyone should eat this regularly. Many people who use it as tea say that they have never had a cold since drinking it.
Bitter greens itself is an anti-inflammatory and fire-removing agent, and it is definitely effective in preventing influenza. It is a very good wild vegetable health product for enhancing the immunity of modern sub-healthy people. For today's popular "swine flu", it is the first choice to prevent tea.
Nowadays, there are many people with diabetes, many suffer from colds, and even more suffer from constipation and body poisoning. This tea is urgently needed and has a significant effect on the sub-health symptoms of modern people. In modern times, when the economy is developing at a rapid pace, this kind of purely natural and green organic health care products is in need.
The bitter herb tea project is a new trend in future agriculture, integrating agriculture and business. Let farmers keep pace with the times and promote sustainable development of new green ecological production.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Bitter Vegetables