When many rural children were in childhood, their favorite thing was to go to grandma's house. Every time they went to grandma's house, they always met some interesting things or delicious things, and so did the author. In the past, every time they went to grandma's house, they always ate all kinds of wild fruits, especially in summer. But now, as they get older, they go to grandma's house less often. When they went to grandma's house this morning, grandma also gave me a surprise. Of course, this surprise remains the same.

In grandma's garden, many vegetables are planted, and besides vegetables, there are some special plants, which are wild vegetables and weeds. Speaking of weeds, many people may hate them now. After all, they grow everywhere in the countryside, and some even like to grow in farmland, which will persecute crops.

But grandma doesn't think so. As long as the useful weeds are treasures, coming to grandma today is actually to help her pick the fruit of a kind of weeds. The fruit of this kind of weeds looks like corn, and it is also called "corn grass" or "cudgel grass" in my hometown.

However, after seeing the picture, I think many friends who have lived in the countryside should be familiar with it. Yes, the scientific name of this cudgel is "Prunella vulgaris", a strange weed whose stem will dry up after the summer solstice. Maybe many people don't know what the use of Prunella vulgaris is now, but for many farmers and friends of the older generation, the fruit of Prunella vulgaris is much more useful, which can be used to feed pigs, treat diseases and make soup, such as Prunella vulgaris stewed chicken feet and Prunella vulgaris black bean soup, which is not only delicious, but also has the value of dietotherapy.

The author came to grandma's house to help her pick the fruit of Prunella vulgaris, in fact, in order to dry it and then use it to make herbal tea. Don't underestimate the strange fruit of Prunella vulgaris, which is a must for making herbal tea, not only delicious, but also clearing away heat and relieving summer heat.

Let's learn about the value of Prunella vulgaris.

The main value of Prunella vulgaris is its corn cob-like fruit, which was a good folk Chinese herbal medicine as early as ancient times. According to Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica, Prunella vulgaris fruit has the effects of clearing away heat and purging fire, improving eyesight, resolving hard mass and reducing swelling, and can be used to treat blurred vision, eye pain, headache, dizziness, tinnitus, scrofula and tumor.

So how do you make herbal tea?

In fact, it's very simple. Put the dried fruit of Prunella vulgaris with chrysanthemum in water to cook, but I suggest adding some sugar when cooking, because Prunella vulgaris tastes bitter, chrysanthemum tastes bitter, and adding sugar tastes better. After cooking, it can be used as tea when it is cold, or it can be drunk after being chilled in the refrigerator. The herbal tea cooked in this way can not only clear away heat and relieve summer heat, but also have the effects of clearing liver, cooling liver and removing liver fire.