In spring, we can find all kinds of wild vegetables everywhere in the countryside, and shepherd's purse is the first batch of wild vegetables. When February of the lunar calendar comes, everything recovers and shepherd's purse grows out of the soil, and fresh shepherd's purse is a kind of wild vegetables that people are eagerly looking forward to, such as shepherd's purse eggs, shepherd's purse wrapped in jiaozi and shepherd's purse. At this time, shepherd's purse is the best time among Chinese herbal medicines.

In our local area, there is a popular saying, "After eating boiled eggs with shepherd's purse on March 3rd, you won't have a headache." This is a local popular letter. Of course, this popular letter still has historical allusions.

There is also a very interesting legend here. This is also related to Hua Tuo, a famous doctor in the history of our country. It is said that Hua Tuo spent the night in an ordinary people's house one day when she was practicing medicine. After learning that she was an imperial doctor of Hua Tuo, the old woman in this family asked Hua Tuo about her persistent headache, and sometimes it was unbearable. Hua tuo took out a handful of shepherd's purse flowers and told the old woman to cook them with the eggs once a morning, so that after eating them for three days, the old woman's headache was cured. Ever since the old lady cured herself of her headache by eating boiled eggs with shepherd's purse flowers, the old lady has publicized them everywhere, and thus it came to the people that she ate boiled eggs with shepherd's purse flowers on March 3. In fact, this is the rural saying "on March 3rd, shepherd's purse is a panacea".

For the wonderful use of shepherd's purse, Li Shizhen, a famous medical scientist, said in his book Compendium of Materia Medica that shepherd's purse is "flat in nature, sweet in taste, light in water, invigorating the spleen, stopping bleeding, detoxicating and lowering blood pressure". Because of this effect, cooking shepherd's purse with eggs is good for the body.

How to cook boiled eggs with shepherd's purse flowers?

First of all, we should choose the shepherd's purse flowers around March 3, because at this time, shepherd's purse flowers have just begun to bloom and the leaves are not old. At this time, the soup cooked by shepherd's purse flowers is strong and effective.

Secondly, clean the dug shepherd's purse flowers and put them in the pot with the eggs to cook. The hot soup is green.

The boiled egg is cracked with a spatula, and put in shepherd's purse soup for five minutes. When the eggshell is cracked and green protein appears, you can eat the egg at this time. Of course, don't eat too much at a time, just two.