1. Noodle dishes

Noodle dishes, also known as net bottles, incense burners, rice crock pots, plum vase, noodle dishes, broadleaf vegetables, scoops, sweet beets, wheat pomegranates , oil bottle vegetable, sheep's hoof tree, red cabbage, Hu Bingcai, wheat yellow cabbage, lantern grass; lantern bulb; vase flower; wild spinach (southeast Shandong region); rabbit head (southeast Shandong region), are herbaceous plants The common name for the seedlings of the genus Maithrinium of the Caryophyllaceae family, is a wild vegetable that people in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River love to eat. This kind of dish is a bit astringent, so it is best eaten when it is tender at the beginning for a better taste.

The whole plant and young stems and leaves are used as medicine, which has the effects of moistening the lungs and relieving cough[1], cooling blood and stopping bleeding. It can treat fatigue cough, epistaxis, hematemesis and other diseases;

Medical materials Origin: It is the whole plant of Caryophyllaceae.

Harvest and storage: Harvest the whole plant in spring and summer, wash and dry it in the sun.

2. Bitter vegetables

Bitter vegetables are used for chest and abdominal pain caused by excess heat and blood stasis, as well as postpartum abdominal pain caused by blood stasis. The herb is also effective in activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis. It can be used with safflower, hawthorn and other medicines to treat postpartum blood stasis and abdominal pain.

Indications: Used for intestinal carbuncle, high fever of lung carbuncle, cough and vomiting of pus and blood, heat poisonous boil, boil pain and swelling, chest and abdominal pain, appendicitis, enteritis, dysentery, postpartum abdominal pain, dysmenorrhea.

3. Water celery

Water celery contains 0.24 g of fat, 1.6 g of carbohydrates, 1.0 g of crude fiber, 160 mg of calcium, 61 mg of phosphorus, and 8.5 mg of iron. Watercress also contains rutin, phelanthin and quercetin. Its tender stems and petioles are fresh, fragrant and refreshing, and can be eaten raw or stir-fried. Watercress is sweet and pungent, cool in nature, enters the lungs and stomach meridian, has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, nourishing qi, cleansing the blood, lowering blood pressure, clearing the lungs and diluting dampness, etc. It can also cure painful urination, bleeding in the stool, jaundice, and wind-fire toothache. , gills and other diseases.

On the other hand, cress is also called "passe-through" by people in Jiangsu. It is usually served as an indispensable delicacy on the dining table during the Spring Festival, and is placed on people's good wishes and wishes. bless.

4. Houttuynia cordata

Houttuynia cordata has different ways of eating in different places. For example, in Xishuangbanna area, people often eat it in the following ways: one. Wash the Houttuynia Cordata and cut it into sections for cold use. The second is to make soup or stir-fry. The third is to make pickles.

Modern research shows that its specific odor mainly comes from an active ingredient in the volatile oil of Houttuynia cordata - Houttuynia cordata (decanoyl acetaldehyde). Eubilisin is the main antibacterial component of Houttuynia Cordata and has significant inhibitory effects on Coccus catarrhalis, Bacillus influenzae, Pneumococcus, Staphylococcus aureus, etc.

Houttuynia cordata mainly contains volatile oil, decanoyl acetaldehyde, houttuynia cordata and other ingredients. It has inhibitory antibacterial effects on various pathogenic bacteria, cocci, influenza viruses, leptospira, etc., and can Improve the body's immune regulatory function.