Folk eat bitter vegetable has more than two thousand years of history, also commonly used as herbal medicine. In the spring and summer, the most eaten wild vegetables, bitter vegetables should be in the first place. Because it is common in the roadside, ridge or wasteland, all over the country are distributed, easy to pick, and has a heat detoxification, sterilization, anti-inflammatory, summer health care, so in the spring and summer are often picked, made into dishes on the table, taste.
China's folk since ancient times have eaten bitter vegetable custom, "Poetry" on the record: "who said that the bitter, its sweet as chestnut". The Ming Dynasty also listed it as a relief food, then the eating method is: picking seedling leaves fried, soaked in water to remove the bitterness, washed, oil and salt seasoning. Asteraceae. From the appearance, the bitter vegetable stem upright, leaf lanceolate or rounded, usually pinnately parted. The edges have irregular pointed teeth. Heads of terminal inflorescences, corolla purple, so called purple-flowered bitter vegetable.
Medicinal value
The timing of its picking is different, its efficacy is different, timely digging to ensure efficacy.
1, on the role of cholecystitis: chronic cholecystitis symptoms of the clinical manifestations of the more atypical, and not obvious. Usually may often have the right upper abdominal pain, bloating, belching, nausea and anorexia of greasy food and other dyspeptic symptoms, some patients feel the right scapula, the right quarter of the ribs or the right lumbar and other places of hidden pain. It is more obvious after standing, exercise and cold bath. The patient's right epigastric rib margin under the mild pressure pain, or pressure has a sense of discomfort, the purple flower bitter vegetable has a good therapeutic effect on it.
2, the impact of inflammation of the stomach and intestines: where eleven dirty depends on the gall also, the root cause of bad stomach and intestines in the gall, cholecystitis will cause gastrointestinal problems. Cholecystitis leads to bile reflux to the stomach, bile salts in the bile and gastric acid can destroy the gastric mucous membrane barrier, leading to gastric damage, resulting in many diseases of the stomach. By regulating the bile and then restoring the normal function of the stomach and intestines.
3, the role of hypertension: hypertension is rooted in the bile, fat or cholesterol metabolism is abnormal, followed by abnormal blood pressure, and cholecystitis will lead to a reduction in bile metabolism. So only by regulating the bile, the abnormal blood pressure can be restored.
4, the protective effect on the liver: the liver in the will also depend on the gallbladder, the pharynx for the make". But all the liver is not good patients, basically the gallbladder suffers from inflammation caused by the liver function depends on the gallbladder contraction function is normal or not. Bile is secreted by the liver, toxins are separated from the liver, through the gallbladder contraction discharged from the body, if the gall is not good, bile and toxins will be retained in the liver, the liver, although the production of bile decomposition of toxins but can not store bile and toxins, although the liver has a self-repair function, but bile and toxins stay in the liver for a long time, resulting in the liver's own synthesis of the elements of cholesterol and fat will be the decomposition of bile cretinization, toxin Further erosion, the liver organ localized damage, and then the liver's blood, sugar metabolism and human immune function decline, there will be liver inflammation, fatty liver, blood sugar abnormalities, immunity decline, cirrhosis and other liver diseases and hypertension, diabetes and so on.
5, the role of insomnia and dreaming: gall is the center of the official, the main decision also. The gallbladder is not good will also lead to insomnia and dreaming, upset and irritable, etc. So only regulating the gallbladder can improve the quality of life. So only regulating the gallbladder can improve the normal sleep condition.
Functions
Sparing the liver and regulating the gallbladder, benefiting the qi and tonifying the kidneys, dispelling wind and promoting dampness, activating blood circulation and relieving pain. The main qi deficiency weakness, kidney impotence, gastric pain, thirst, insomnia and dreaming, rheumatism and bone paralysis, lumbar and knee weakness, clearing heat and detoxification, constipation, gastroenteritis, cholecystitis, heart disease, hepatitis, hemorrhoids, insomnia and dreaming.
"Neijing. Su Wen": all eleven organs depending on the gallbladder also, the main five Tibetan evil, anorexia stomach paralysis.
Use and Dosage
Internally: decoction, beat juice or powder, must be with brown sugar with drink balance cold and heat.
Harvesting and storage
According to various conditions, late spring and early summer can be harvested, harvested in the summer in the morning, can be cut with a knife in the plant near the ground, break off the yellow leaves, diseased leaves, bundled or baskets can be sold. If long-distance transportation, but also for pre-cooling, or in the packing box into the ice to save.
With effective experimental formula
1, cholecystitis: take a number of bitter vegetables, brown sugar, appropriate amount.
2, gastroenteritis: use the same as above,
3, hepatitis: use the same as above,
4, insomnia and sleeplessness: use the same as above,
5, gallbladder polyps: use the same as above, need about a year.
Use of contraindications
1, the use of the period to avoid eating eggs and fish roe and other high cholesterol food, do not eat bitter melon, eat less greasy food, avoid alcohol and spicy food, try to use vegetable oil cooking;
2, usually pay attention to rest, do not strain, pay attention to controlling their own moods, less angry,
3, when drinking purple flowers and bitter vegetables, people with cold body need to add brown sugar.
Difference with sepsis
Purple bitter vegetable will generally have sepsis mixed dishes, its open purple flowers, no white pulp. The septoria is 15-60cm tall, smooth and glabrous all over. Stem erect, cylindrical, branched, the surface has fine longitudinal ribs. Basal leaves are stalked, stem leaves alternate, sessile, base arrow-shaped and clasping, leaf blade oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, 2.5-5cm long, 1-2cm wide, apex mucronate or rounded, margin undulate or coarsely toothed. Racemes inserted in stem wither and leaf axils; flowers white, sepals 4; petals 4, cruciform arrangement; stamens 6, 4 strong, anthers ovate, dorsifixed, 2-loculed, longitudinally cleft, filaments stout, ca. 1.5mm long, slightly wider in the lower part, gynoecium 1, ovary ovoid and flattened, ca. 2mm long, ca. 1.5mm wide with concave apex, green, pseudopetiole in the interior of the atrium, 2-loculed, with ovules 5-7 in each locule, style short. Short-horned fruit ovoid or suborbicular, flattened, 0.8-1.5cm long, 0.3-1.3cm wide, concave at the apex, winged at the margins, 1.5-3mm wide, grayish-yellow at maturity, dehiscing downward along the central tip. Seeds compressed ovoid, about 2mm wide, surface brownish-black, with 5-6 raised eccentric rings on each side. Flowering April to May, fruiting May to June.