Shepherd's purse is a kind of wild vegetable that grows in fields, roadsides and gardens.

Every year in March and April, there are diligent housewives to go to the mountains and fields to pick chestnuts to eat, the most common practice is chestnut dumplings, cold chestnuts and stir-fried chestnuts.

Shepherd's purse is 30 to 40 centimeters high, the main root is long and thin, white, straight down, branched. The stem is erect and branched.

Root leaves clustered, pinnately parted, sparsely entire, distal lobes triangular; stem leaves oblong or linear-lanceolate, apically several linear, base auriculate-amplexicaul, margin notched or serrate, or nearly entire, leaves with single or branched fine pilose hairs on both surfaces, margins sparsely white with long eyelashes.

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Shepherd's purse is rich in nutrients, has the following effects and roles:

1, prevention of cancer

Shepherd's purse is rich in vitamin C, which prevents nitrates and nitrites from being converted into carcinogens nitrosamines in the digestive tract, and can Prevent stomach cancer and esophageal cancer.

2, promote gastrointestinal peristalsis

Capsicum contains a large amount of crude fiber, can enhance intestinal peristalsis after consumption, promote excretion, thereby enhancing metabolism, help prevent and control hypertension, coronary heart disease, obesity, diabetes, intestinal cancer and hemorrhoids.

3, relieve night blindness

Capsicum is rich in carotene, because carotene is vitamin A original, so it is the treatment of dry eye disease, night blindness good food.

4, anticoagulant

Capsicum contains caprylic acid, is an effective hemostatic component, can shorten the bleeding and clotting time.

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