The taste of thorn mustard is flat, warm, non-toxic, clear and fragrant. Thorny mustard is a sweating, antipyretic medicine, can suppress phlegm, dispel wind, cool blood. It is used for treating influenza, headache, cold, fever and sweating, and vomiting.

The thorn mustard has a strong aroma, mainly fresh and tender stems and leaves for vegetable consumption. Thorny mustard is rich in aromatic oils, with the highest content of leaves, fresh flavor, but also can be anthelmintic sterilization, raw food cooked food can be, but to cold for more, generally will be the tender tip of the summer seasoning, is a kind of high economic efficiency, very promising development of pollution-free, health care type of pungent vegetables. p>Regions of distribution

Thornbeam is found in Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Henan, Shanxi, Shandong, Hubei, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Yunnan; it has been distributed eastward from south-central Europe through Afghanistan to Japan, and escaped into the wild in the Americas and southern Africa. The type was taken from Europe. Cultivated in Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hebei and other places.

Thorn mustard is very adaptable, sun-loving, more growth in warm and humid environment, the soil requirements are not strict, the general soil can be planted, but in loose, fertile soil growth is better, high temperature and rainy season for fear of stagnant water, short-term stagnant water will cause death. Seeds are easy to germinate, germination is not strict on temperature requirements, seeds can germinate at 15~20 ℃, the growth temperature is 20~25 ℃, seedlings can withstand low temperatures of about 0 ℃. The thorns are resistant to high temperatures, more resistant to cold, but below -2 ℃ there will be frost damage, avoid continuous cultivation.

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