The scientific name of the hollow cabbage is Yongcai, is the main vegetable in spring and summer. Hollow cabbage is flavorful and nutritious. Its vitality is extremely strong, whether in front of the house, water, land surface can be planted, as long as a little fertilizer, diligent watering, are harvested, the hotter the climate more green and lush. "June Yong vegetable buds, better than lard slag". There are a variety of ways to eat cabbage, meat or vegetarian, or soup or fried can be, the most simple practice: cabbage in boiling water, accompanied by oil, salt that is fragrant and smooth and crisp, very refreshing.

Cabbage is rich in carbohydrates, fat, protein, three major nutrients and a variety of minerals, vitamin C, vitamin B2 and so on. Cabbage is also rich in fiber, can accelerate intestinal peristalsis, promote the body of toxins and toxic substances excretion. Chlorophyll in the cabbage has a "green elf", known as the skin, clean teeth and caries effect.

The Chinese medicine believes that cabbage is also a good medicine, it belongs to the spinach plant, sweet and slightly cold, there is a heat detoxification, cool blood diuretic effect, the summer heat and thirst, urine yellow and inflammation produced by hemorrhoids, epistaxis, blood in the urine and other heat disorders, can be eaten more cabbage to be lifted. This product is excellent in both medicine and food, and can be called a good summer vegetable. Children's summer heat (summer resistance) available hollow cabbage juice salt frequency service to be clear heat; for the summer often appear boils or poisonous insect bites and prickly heat, eczema and other skin diseases, persuade the gentleman to eat more hollow cabbage, and at the same time another to take it mashed compresses on the affected area. During the period of serving as a rural doctor, the author in the treatment of flat warts (corns), the use of hollow cabbage leaf frequency rubbing, have achieved good results.

According to the National Compendium of Chinese Herbal Medicine, Yong Vegetable can be used to solve the problem of "hook kiss, yellow vine, arsenic, wild mushroom poisoning". Folk treatment of the above poisoning, take a large bundle of Yongcai (more than 1,000 grams) pounded to take the juice infusion.

Yongcai can also treat the big disease - tuberculosis. I met a male patient in the countryside in the early years, he suffered from severe tuberculosis, due to family economic difficulties, unable to pay for medication, under the guidance of the doctor, daily consumption of large quantities of Yong Vegetable mixed with garlic, a few months later, by the lungs fluoroscopy review, the lesion has been absorbed and calcified healed.

In short, Yong Vegetable is not coarse vegetables, it is both nutrition and can cure, is the summer fitness and disease prevention of the top quality good food.

While cabbage is rich in calcium, but also high in oxalic acid, easy to form calcium oxalate precipitation, affecting the absorption of calcium. So for infants, pregnant women, patients with bone fractures, minimize the consumption of vegetables containing too much oxalic acid, weak, cold spleen and stomach, loose stools should not be eaten