Sophora alopecuroides, commonly known as Sophora alopecuroides, is a non-toxic wild plant with both medicine and food. Sowthistle is spread all over the country. It is called Patrinia in medicine, "Sowthistle" in Ningxia, "Sowthistle" in Shaanxi and "Tianxiang" in Li Shizhen.
Bitter bitter herb is astringent in bitterness and sweet in astringency, fresh and refreshing, cool and tender, rich in nutrition, containing vitamins, minerals, choline, sugar, riboflavin and mannitol needed by human body, and has the functions of clearing heat, cooling blood and detoxifying. Compendium of Materia Medica: (Bitter vegetables) Take it for a long time, feel at ease and benefit qi, intellectual fit and be resistant to old age. In medicine, bitter herbs are often used to treat fever, and the ancients also used it to sober up.
People in Ningxia like to boil bitter vegetables, wash them cold and mix them with salt, vinegar, spicy oil or garlic paste to make them cool and spicy, and eat steamed bread and rice, which greatly increases their appetite. It is also useful to marinate bitter herbs in yellow rice soup, which tastes sour and sweet, crisp and refreshing. Some people also boil bitter herbs with boiling water and squeeze out bitter juice to make soup, stuffing, stir-fry and cook noodles, each with its own flavor.
Bitter vegetables have the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood and promoting diuresis, reducing swelling and expelling pus, removing blood stasis and relieving pain, tonifying deficiency and relieving cough. It has a good effect on preventing and treating anemia, maintaining normal physiological activities of human body, promoting growth and development, and relieving summer heat and protecting health.
Conclusion: Eating bitter herbs can promote the synthesis of antibodies in human body, enhance immunity and promote brain function. To treat anemia, a variety of inorganic salts and trace elements are beneficial to children's growth and development, and a variety of vitamins can promote wound healing and prevent vitamin deficiency.