1. Local vegetables

Also known as shepherd's purse. Cruciferous green plant is a popular edible mountain vegetable. Natural shepherd's purse has loose leaves that grow on the ground and are light green in color. There is a folk custom that "on March 3rd, boil eggs with local vegetables".

How to eat: It is often made into steamed buns or meat fillings. Stir-fried shepherd's purse, dipped in sauce, mixed with cold dishes or boiled in soup can turn it into a mouth-watering delicacy. In addition, you can also use shepherd's purse to make vegetable soup and prepare delicious shepherd's purse porridge.

Efficacy: Helps improve human immune function. It can also reduce blood pressure, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and treat gastrointestinal spasms, gastritis, acute enteritis, colitis and other diseases. The whole shepherd's purse plant is used as medicine and has medicinal properties such as improving eyesight, refreshing, reducing fever, promoting urination, and treating dysentery. 2. Basil

Also known as white wormwood, it has a single main stem and a narrow spindle shape. Flower heads, mostly, hemispherical or subglobose. The inflorescence is hemispherical with milky white trichomes.

How to eat: There are many ways to eat Artemisia annua. It can be made into steamed buns, meat fillings, mixed into stick noodles and steamed steamed buns, mixed with tofu, or cooked.

Efficacy: Indicates the treatment of swollen heat cough, sore throat, cold and damp neonatal jaundice, heat dysentery, non- stranguria, rheumatism and arthralgia, vomiting blood, coughing up blood, bleeding from wounds, and scabies. 3. Gray cabbage

Also known as gray cabbage, Chenopodiaceae, it is an annual woody plant with thick standing stems, ribs and emerald green or dark purple patterns, with multiple branches; the branches are elevated or spreading. It grows in wilderness, barren mountains, prairie, roadsides and around houses. It grows and develops widely throughout China. Gray vegetables are one of the traditional delicacies in the Miao area.

How to eat: Pick young seedlings or young stems and leaves from April to June every year and take it. Collect the young stems and leaves, blanch them in a pot of boiling water to wash away the bitter taste, and you can make a variety of dishes. Cut into strips to dry or use fresh. Boil the gray vegetables in hot water before frying. Note: After ingestion, exposure to direct sunlight may cause solar dermatitis.

Efficacy: Treats colds and colds, suitable for patients with acute enteritis, diarrhea, eczema, pruritus and insect bites. It has the effects of clearing away heat and dampness, moistening the intestines, removing toxins, clearing away heat and dampness, relieving itching and relieving muscles. 4. Noodles

Also known as noodle tree, it is an annual woody plant. The whole plant has glandular hairs, and the nodes are large. There are usually 5-10 grass flowers, and the flowers are blue-purple or light pink. There are many branches above the middle of the stem, the leaves are opposite, and the basal leaves are slightly spoon-shaped. It is a wild vegetable favored by people in the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River (especially Henan and Shandong provinces).

How to eat: Steamed food is the main method, and steamed noodles have long been familiar to everyone. In addition to being steamed and eaten, it can be used as a hot pot side dish for noodle soup, as a cold dish, or as a dipping sauce. It has a delicious taste and can be reheated. It can also be used to make soup or mix with stuffing.

Efficacy: Nourishes yin, removes heat, and treats weak dry cough. For example, the noodle vegetable wolfberry and its young stems and leaves are used as medicine, which can relieve coughs, moisten the lungs, disperse blood and stop bleeding. It can also treat fatigue cough, epistaxis, and hematemesis.