(1), shepherd's purse contains more juvenile vitamin A, which has certain therapeutic effects on eye diseases such as cataract and night blindness.

(2) Capsella bursa-pastoris can clean the gastrointestinal tract, reduce the cholesterol content in human blood and lower blood sugar.

Common recipes are: shepherd's purse jiaozi and shepherd's purse egg soup.

Shepherd's purse helps to enhance the body's immune function. It can also lower blood pressure, strengthen stomach and promote digestion, and treat stomach spasm, gastric ulcer, dysentery, enteritis and other diseases.

Extended data

Ground vegetables are a panacea. There is not only a folk proverb that "shepherd's purse is a panacea on the third day of March in spring", but also a saying that "eating shepherd's purse in spring is an elixir". In traditional Chinese medicine, the medicinal value of ground vegetables is very extensive, and it is known as "licorice in vegetables".

Chinese medicine believes that shepherd's purse is sweet in taste and cool in nature, and belongs to liver, spleen and kidney meridians, which has the effects of harmonizing spleen, promoting diuresis, stopping bleeding and improving eyesight. So to get rid of the fire.

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