Family: Asteraceae endive.

Alias: endive, Portuguese stem endive, endive, currant, bitter bitter, septoria.

Identification: perennial herb. Whole plant with latex. Underground rhizome creeping, so also known as "creeping endive". Aboveground stems erect, less branched, smooth. Leaves alternate; sessile; leaf blade broadly lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, margin undulate-cuspidate or notched, so called "long lobed endive". Heads, a few, arranged in cymose or corymbose at the top of branches, heads 2-4 cm in diameter; involucral bracts in 4 rows; all ligulate flowers, bright yellow; ligule bar-shaped, apex toothed. Achenes laterally compressed, angular.

Medicinal: The whole herb is called "endive".

Taste: bitter, cold.

Effects: Clearing heat and removing toxins, cooling the blood and stopping bleeding.

Application: long-cracked endive, too rusty name, in fact, is a child every day to pull the "bitter vegetables", generally pulled back to feed the sheep, Shanxi people love to eat sauerkraut, it is also a good material to do sauerkraut, but not directly eat, because it is really bitter, much to be boiled in boiling water. Later to the outskirts of Beijing, found a raw dipping sauce to eat, not at all bitter, I do not know is the local climate is different, or varieties are different. In the 1960s, talking about Chinese medicine "sepsis grass" and "tomb head back" to, are referring to it, so it has an alias "sepsis grass". Nowadays, the terms "sepsis grass" and "tomb head back" refer to plants of the family of the family of the family of the family of the family of miso. It is now called "endive" in medicine, but in botany, "endive" is the same family and genus of another thing, really annoying, but from a medicinal point of view, do not pursue also does not matter, "endive genus "into the" Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine "of the plant has three kinds, in addition to this product, there is" endive "and" continued chrysanthemum "and its flavor effect is the same, can not be distinguished from the real no big deal.