Shepherd's shepherd's purse is also known as local dish. In spring, in the fields, you can often see scattered shepherd's purse flowers. Its dietotherapy function is to cool blood, stop bleeding, tonify deficiency, strengthen spleen, clear heat and promote diuresis.

Pick some tender stems and leaves or overwintering buds of shepherd's purse. After blanching, they can be cold, dipped in sauce, made into soup and fried. Shepherd's purse dumplings and shepherd's purse wonton are indispensable delicacies on the spring table, and they can also be made into delicious shepherd's purse porridge.

2. Malantou

In spring, Malantou broke ground in the roadside wilderness, bringing people the breath of spring and decorating our dining table, bringing nutrition and health. Malantou, also known as Malan, red cauliflower, chicken intestine, chrysanthemum morifolium, purple chrysanthemum, pangtiaotou grass, etc.

Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica in the Ming Dynasty: "Malan and Huze have many wet places. In February, the seedlings are red, the stems are white, the roots are long, and the leaves are engraved. Southerners often dry them to make vegetables and steamed buns." It can be seen that people have been eating Malantou for a long time.

Malantou is a good vegetable and can be used as medicine. Malan is pungent and cool, and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood to stop bleeding, and inducing diuresis to reduce swelling. It can be used to treat sore throat, carbuncle, swelling, furuncle and stranguria.

3. Dandelion

Taraxacum mongolicum, also known as Huanghuamiao, Laopoding, Huangdiandi, etc., is mostly born on hillsides, fields, roadsides, beaches and wilderness, and is distributed in the wild all over the country.

Dandelion was first seen in Newly Revised Materia Medica in the Tang Dynasty, and it is called bitter in taste and cold in nature. It enters the liver and stomach meridians, and has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, eliminating carbuncle and resolving stagnation, and inducing diuresis. It is an extremely commonly used Chinese herbal medicine.

Dandelion is a kind of healthy wild vegetable with rich nutrition. The main edible parts are leaves, flowers, stems and roots. Its tender leaves, unopened buds and rhizomes are edible. Dig its tender seedlings, rinse with cold water after boiling water, stir-fry, cold salad, and make soup, and the flavor is especially good.

4. Plantain

Plantago asiatica, also known as Five Grass and Trifolium Brassicae Capitatae, has the functions of clearing away heat and diuresis, cooling blood and detoxifying, and is mainly used for treating bladder heat, adverse urination, stranguria and leukorrhagia, dysentery due to summer heat, hematuria, liver heat and red eyes, sore throat and carbuncle.

Collect its seedlings and tender plants in spring or summer, wash them, blanch them with boiling water, take them out and cut them into pieces, and add salt, monosodium glutamate, garlic paste, vinegar, sesame oil or pepper oil to eat them.

Or remove impurities from Plantago asiatica, wash it, scald it with boiling water, squeeze out the water and dry it a little, then stir-fry it quickly with pepper, garlic slices and chopped green onion, which is also delicious; Or use washed plantain seedlings, blanch them with boiling water, and add them to eggs and sparerib soup to make soup.

Or remove water from washed and scalded plantain, air-dry, chop, and mix with meat stuffing and seasoning to make stuffing, which can be steamed into steamed buns, boiled in jiaozi, baked into pies, etc., and the stuffing is very fresh and tender; Or cook plantain and rice together to make porridge.

5. Wild garlic

Wild garlic, alias Allium macrostemon, Allium tuberosum, Allium sativum, Allium fistulosum (Zhejiang), Brassica oleracea, and Allium tuberosum, has an irregular oval shape with a yellowish-white or yellowish-brown surface and a protruding bulb disk at the bottom. Its stems and leaves look like garlic, but also have the taste of onion and garlic.

The main ways to eat wild garlic are mixed tofu, fried bacon, scrambled eggs, garlic and white fungus porridge. Wild garlic can activate yang, disperse stagnation, promote qi and guide stagnation. Eating regularly is beneficial to lowering blood sugar.

6. Grey vegetables

Grey vegetables, also known as grey vegetables, white quinoa, etc., are rich in protein, multivitamins, trace elements such as potassium, calcium and phosphorus, and also contain rare desquamation-promoting steroids and tannins, which have anti-cancer, heat-clearing and weight-reducing effects, and have obvious inhibitory effects on influenza and Japanese encephalitis virus.

It is one of the main wild vegetable varieties exported by China to collect thick and tender green young leaves in spring, fry them in boiling water, or make them into dried roast pork and shredded pork with grey vegetables, or pickle them for eating.

7. Purslane

Portulaca oleracea L., also known as Herba Equiseti (grasshopper), Herba Equiseti, Radix Polygoni Multiflori, and Herba Longevii, is generally reddish brown, with thick leaves like an inverted egg. It contains protein, methionine, riboflavin, ascorbic acid, carotene and other nutrients. Because it contains a lot of acid substances, it will feel a little sour when eating.

The medicinal functions of Portulaca oleracea L. are clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, reducing blood sugar concentration and keeping blood sugar constant, which has a certain effect on diabetes. It can be eaten in many ways, such as fried food, cold salad and stuffing after blanching. Such as garlic mixed with horsetails, scrambled eggs with horsetails, stuffed buns with horsetails, horsetails porridge, etc.

8. Amaranth

Amaranth, also known as Xitiangu, is a kind of wild vegetable with green and white flowers, commonly known as "human grass". It is wild in the north and south of China in spring and summer, and the tender leaves germinated in spring are better for eating.

Amaranth grows faster, and every time after the spring rain, or in front of the house, or at the roadside, delicate seedlings are born in dribs and drabs. At this time, the tender leaves are picked, the fragrance is tender and smooth, and the food is moist, which can be described as the best delicacies in spring.

Amaranth is one of the best vegetables for anemia patients, infants after operation and fracture patients, especially for anemia patients, because the iron and calcium in amaranth have high utilization rate and no side effects, which is beneficial to blood synthesis and regeneration.

9. Bitter hemp seed

Hemp seed, also known as sonchus sonchifolius, wild sonchus sonchifolius, kudzuvine hemp, sonchus sonchifolius, casseroles, and sowthistle, has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting diuresis to expel pus, and cooling blood to stop bleeding, and is mainly used for treating sore throat, furuncle, hemorrhoid, enteritis, acute appendicitis, hematuria, hematochezia and metrorrhagia.

Sophora alopecuroides (including flowers) can be eaten raw, and it is very clear when dipped in sauce; Can also be cooked; Soaking water as tea to drink, clearing away heat and toxic materials, and removing fire is very effective for chronic diseases such as hypertension and toothache.

10, Kudiezi

Ixeris sonchifolia, also known as Ixeris sonchifolia, Ixeris sonchifolia, Ixeris sonchifolia, Huoxue Caocao, Ixeris sonchifolia, Yaneryi and Patrinia scabiosaefolia, is the whole plant or root of compositae plant Ixeris sonchifolia.

Ixeris sonchifolia, born in mountainous areas and wilderness, is a weed in the field. It is harvested in early spring, washed, used rarely or dried in the sun. Ixeris sonchifolia is distributed in the north, east and south of China. It blooms in spring and is born at the foot of the mountain, on the roadside, in the sparse forest and by the river.

Kudiezi can clear away heat, cool blood and detoxify, and has certain curative effects on acute icteric infectious hepatitis, acute bacillary dysentery, chronic bronchitis, stomatitis, cholecystitis, acute and chronic pelvic inflammatory disease, etc. When applied externally, it can also be used to treat knife wounds, burns, bites by bees, snakes and scorpions, sores and swelling.

Bitter vegetables can be cold-mixed. Wash the bitter vegetables, blanch them thoroughly in a boiling water pot, quickly remove and wash off the bitterness, squeeze the water and chop them up, and put them in a basin for later use. Put garlic paste, salt, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil and vinegar in a small bowl and mix well. Pour over bitter vegetables and mix well.

1 1, water celery

Water celery is also called water celery and river celery. Its stems are hollow, its leaves are triangular and its flowers are white. It mainly grows in wet places, such as ponds, rivers and paddy fields.

Oenanthe javanica has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, moistening lung, invigorating spleen and regulating stomach, promoting digestion, promoting diuresis, stopping bleeding, lowering blood pressure, resisting hepatitis, arrhythmia and bacteria. The dishes we often eat are pork fried cress, cress mutton dumplings and cress mixed with peanuts.

12, thorn shoots

Spiny buds, also known as spiny dragon buds and Aralia elata, mainly grow in bushes and open spaces in forests. It is not a herb like other wild vegetables, but a woody plant. Its bark is gray, covered with thick and hard prickles, its flowers are yellowish white, and its fruit is berries, spherical and black.

The edible part of thorn bud, mainly its tender bud, can play the roles of invigorating qi, promoting blood circulation, expelling wind, promoting diuresis, relieving pain, tonifying kidney and replenishing essence.

Young buds and leaves are collected in spring, fresh-used, salted and canned for preservation. Blanch the tender buds with boiling water, soak them in clean water for 2 hours, stir-fry, cold-mix, dip in sauce, wrap in batter and fry them.

13, noodle dishes

Noodles are also known as incense burner grass, sweet vegetables, wheat pomegranate, oil bottle vegetables, sheep hoof trees, lantern grass, wild spinach, rabbits and so on. The whole grass and tender stems and leaves are used as medicine, which has the effects of moistening lung, relieving cough, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, and can treat cough, epistaxis and vomiting blood due to fatigue.

Noodles are usually eaten by steaming, that is, after the noodles are washed, they are mixed with flour, steamed in a pot for a few minutes, and then seasoned with garlic, salt, sugar, vinegar, chicken essence and sesame oil. This dish has been sold in supermarkets and restaurants in recent years, and it is very popular among people.

14, alfalfa

Alfalfa is also known as cauliflower and grass head. Alfalfa has high nutritional value and is one of the ancient vegetables in China. Alfalfa contains a lot of iron, so it can be used as an auxiliary food to treat anemia. The B vitamins contained in alfalfa can treat pernicious anemia. In addition, alfalfa also contains vitamin K with hemostatic effect, which is higher than all vegetables. People often use it to treat gastropathy or hemorrhoid bleeding, and some prescriptions use it to treat stomach or hemorrhoid and intestinal bleeding.

Alfalfa dishes northerners like cold salad. It is best to eat it in February and March of the lunar calendar, picking the first three or four sections of its leaves and stems. Rinse with clear water, blanch, soak in cold water for more than ten minutes to increase its freshness, and then gently rub with your hands to remove some juice. It can be eaten after being mixed and tasted. Delicious, refreshing and spleen-clearing, it is a good side dish on the family table.