Its function is to cool blood, stop bleeding, and reduce fire. If you catch a cold and get angry, you can use the thorn buds to soak in water as tea to drink, which can effectively remove the evil fire in the body and also have the effect of lowering blood pressure. Hypertensive patients often drink in water, which can effectively control blood pressure and prolong life. There are many wild plants with stings, such as Herba Epimedii (nettle), which is famous for stinging people, but nettle can be eaten as wild plants, and few people know it. Different from biting nettles, some wild vegetables with thorns only have thorns, but they don't produce itchy acidic substances when people touch them like nettles. For example, there is a kind of wild vegetable called thorn bud by farmers, which has many thorns.

First, the information of thorn bud

In fact, this kind of spiny bud belongs to the genus Cirsium in Compositae, and is called Stichopus japonicus and Cirsium japonicum. It is found that almost all plants with "bud" and "vegetable" are wild vegetables, and the thorn bud is one of them. Thorn buds often grow on hillsides, wasteland and fields, but they are also easy to identify. As the name suggests, their leaves have needles as fine as saws, just like the leaves of osmanthus fragrans in Meliaceae. When I was a child, Kalopanax septemlobus liked to pick the leaves of osmanthus trees and thorn buds to cut people for fun.

Second, it can be eaten as wild vegetables.

Both pigs and cattle are not afraid of acupuncture on the leaves of thorn buds, which is a common kind of pig grass and cattle grass. When the quill quill was cutting pig grass, it accidentally cut its hand, so it picked a leaf and crushed it until it gave juice, and applied it to the wound to stop bleeding. In addition, the spiny bud is an edible wild vegetable, so it should be dug early, otherwise it will be a bit pricked when it is old.

1, make wild vegetables to eat. As a wild vegetable, the thorn bud can be eaten raw and cold like a broken ear root, or it can be scalded and cold, or it can be cut into pieces and scrambled eggs like a Toona sinensis bud.

2. Cook tofu. Soak soybeans for one day in advance, drain them, mash them, put them in a large pot and cook them with thorn buds. The aroma is fragrant.

3, do wowotou. Stichopus japonicus can also be made into wowotou with corn flour. Wash and chop Stichopus japonicus, knead it with corn flour into a ball, and then rub it into wowotou and steam it.