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Malan Tóu

Malan Tóu, also known as Malan, Red Stem Vegetable, Chicken Gut, Fieldside Chrysanthemum, Purple Chrysanthemum, and Crabapple Head Grass, belongs to the perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Malan in the family of Asteraceae. Malan head is originally a wild species, born on the roadside, fields, slopes, most parts of the country are distributed. There are two kinds of Malan head, red stem and green stem, both edible, medicinal use of red stem Malan head is better. Due to the relationship between Cold Food Festival and Qingming Festival, some places still retain the custom of eating cold food at Qingming Festival. In Zhejiang Province, eating seasonal vegetables such as marjoram is based on the character for "green", which is in line with the "green" of "Qingming".

Geographic distribution

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Extremely common throughout China, the Yangtze River basin is more widely distributed. It is more common around Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Born on mountain slopes, field margins, and roadsides, it is distributed throughout the country. Widely distributed in S and E Asia. [1]? In the United States, marjoram grows only in the state of Hawaii

Main values

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Nutritional value

1. Nutritional composition and content

Marjoram contains a variety of nutrients, rich in mineral elements and vitamins and β-carotene, and more than 17 kinds of amino acids, of which 7 kinds are essential for the human body. The content of nutrients from high to low is about: K, Ca, Na, Mg, Zn, Fe, Cu, Li, Mn, Ni, V, Se, Co. Among them, the potassium content is 20 times more than that of common vegetables, and its Se, Zn, Mg, and Ca content is richer than that of common vegetables.

The young stem and leaves contain water, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene, potassium, vitamin B, niacin, etc. Malan is rich in inorganic salts, and every 100g of young stem and leaves of Malan contains 86.4% of water, 3g of protein, 0.9g of fat, 5.2g of carbohydrates, 1.1g of crude fibers, 36mg~69mg of VC, 31.5mg of carotene, 0.36g of VB. Niacin2.5g, Potassium530mg, Calcium145mg, Magnesium46.8mg, Phosphorus70mg, Copper0.24mg, Iron4mg, Zinc0.43mg, Sodium1mg.The whole herb contains volatile oil, and the constituents of the oil are Lobelia Acetate, Lobelia Formate, Phenolics, Sesquiterpene, Dipterocarpene, and Octanoic Acid.

Nutritional composition per 100 grams of marjoram: 25 kcal of energy, 2.4 grams of protein, 0.4 grams of fat, 4.6 grams of carbohydrates, 1.6 grams of dietary fiber, 340 micrograms of vitamin A, 2040 micrograms of carotenoids, thiamine 0.06 milligrams, 0.13 milligrams of riboflavin, 0.8 milligrams of niacin, 26 milligrams of vitamin C, vitamin E0.72 milligrams, Calcium 67 mg, Phosphorus 38 mg, Potassium 285 mg, Sodium 15.2 mg, Magnesium 14 mg, Iron 2.4 mg, Zinc 0.87 mg, Selenium 0.75 micrograms, Copper 0.13 mg Horse Semi Root Stem is elongated and terete, bearing numerous pale brownish-yellow fine roots and fibrous roots. Stem cylindrical, 2 to 3 mm in diameter, the surface of yellow-green, with fine longitudinal lines, brittle, easy to break, section of the central white pith, leaves alternate, leaf blade wrinkled and curled, more has been crushed, the intact ones flattened out obovate, ellipsoid or lance table, covered with short hairs, some of the branches at the top of the visible capitulum, the flowers lilac, or has borne fruit. Achenes are obovate-oblong, flattened and hairy. The odor is slight, and the taste is pale and slightly astringent.

Medicinal value

The whole herb is used medicinally, with the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins, eliminating food stagnation, facilitating urination, dispersing blood stasis and stopping bleeding, and is commonly known as Tianbian chrysanthemum and Lubian chrysanthemum in Fujian and Guangdong, and is also commonly known as fish loach skewer, loach skewer, loach vegetable in Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Guangxi, and as Demoiselle lotus in Yunnan. The young leaves are usually eaten as a vegetable, commonly called "Malan head".

Malan head is Malan, Xianju people called: horse head orchid. Malan from the "Herbal Compendium Gleanings": Malan, born beside the Ze. Such as Zephyr orchid and gas odor. North people see its flowers called for purple chrysanthemum, to its like a single petal chrysanthemum flowers and purple, and there are mountain orchids, born on the side of the mountain, like Liu Shunu leaves, no ma, not to the birth of the flower heart slightly yellow and red. It is also a great blood-breaker, all available. Justice of the Materia Medica" said that its "most detoxification of heat, can specialize in the blood, stopping bleeding and cooling the blood, especially long. Where the evil of warmth and heat, deep into the camp, and carbuncle ulcers, blood heat, rot and ulcers, etc., is allowed to specialize in medicine. Internal service and external application, its use is very wide, but also clearing heat and detoxification of the key products." Chinese Medical Dictionary: Malan root dew, Malan root steamed dew. Pungent cool non-toxic. Disperses knots and clears heat, breaks dormant blood, and can cure hemorrhoids.

Name: Malan head, flavor: pungent, cool; attributed to the liver, stomach, lung meridian.

Maran's head flower