A few days ago, I took my children to the countryside to pick wild vegetables. I met an elderly man who was a centenarian in the village. He enthusiastically said to me while I was digging wild vegetables: "March is full of wormwood.

Moonwort, cut wood and burn in May and June.” I didn’t know what it meant at first, but I found out later by looking up relevant information.

The artemisia mentioned here is actually one of the wild vegetables in spring. Its young seedlings can be eaten and can also be used as medicinal materials. They are ingredients with the same origin as medicine and food. However, they are picked at different times and have different characteristics.

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If harvested in March, it is called artemisia and can be used as medicine.

Since ancient times, it has been used to clear away heat, detoxify and reduce jaundice.

Especially for people with jaundice, eczema, rubella, etc., it has certain positive effects.

The specific method can be to use wormwood to soak in water, make tea, make soup, and use it as an auxiliary ingredient for gourmet food.

For those who like to drink crucian carp soup, adding wormwood can not only clear away heat and remove dampness, but also remove the fishy smell of crucian carp and enhance the umami aroma.

However, don’t overdo it. After all, there is a principle of “enough is enough” in food, which is probably a 20:1 ratio.

For people who like to eat hot and sour flavors, you can also add an appropriate amount of chili peppers, dried longans or jujubes, which can enhance the body's immunity, relieve general fatigue, and is suitable for people with heavy moisture.

The term "April Artemisia" actually also refers to wormwood. In Shandong, Shanxi and other regions, wormwood picked in spring is also called "cotton wormwood". In other places, wormwood picked in April is called "cotton wormwood".

Artemisia annua, at this time it is a vegetable. For people who often suffer from spring sleepiness recently, such as dizziness and fatigue, always drowsy, drowsy, unable to energy to do things... Then, you might as well make a talk about it.

For Yinchen dishes, take 15g of Yinchen, add 5g of tangerine peel, 2 to 3 slices of ginger, and 250g of pork shreds, put them all into a casserole, and add a little white wine.

Such delicacies have the benefits of replenishing qi, nourishing kidneys and yin, moistening dryness, nourishing blood, strengthening the spleen and stomach, etc.

Of course, you can also create some delicacies. You can use wormwood to season them. They are delicious and have high nutritional value.

This is the benefit of picking and eating wormwood in March and April. As for wormwood growing in May and June, such wormwood cannot be eaten anymore.

For those who have eaten it, they will also find that it tastes very bad at this time, and it can basically be used as firewood. This is why there is a saying that the artemisia grows in March and artemisia in April, and firewood is cut in May and June.

Those who have heard this sentence may also know that there is another sentence at the end, which comes from the records in "Emperor Jing Sui Sheng·April·Shipin", Children in July use star lanterns, which can also be used as decorations.