With the improvement of social living standards, many people's pursuit of diet is no longer greasy fish and meat, but some wild vegetables with strange taste and high nutritional value. Although wild vegetables grow on the unremarkable roadside or on the third floor, they have many functions. For example, local dishes are one of them, so what is the name of local dishes?

Shepherd's purse, also known as nursing grass, ground vegetables and water chestnut vegetables, can be eaten or used medicinally. As a kind of nutritious wild vegetable, it is very popular with the broad masses of people.

People often pick fresh shepherd's purse, chop it up and wrap it in jiaozi, or make it into soup. Shepherd's purse is rich in nutrients such as carotene, protein, calcium, iron, manganese and potassium, which is suitable for people with weak constitution, eye diseases and indigestion.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that shepherd's purse is flat and sweet, which can strengthen the stomach, promote digestion, improve eyesight, lower blood pressure, detoxify and reduce swelling. In addition, it can also treat eye diseases, such as redness and swelling, conjunctivitis, night blindness and so on. Shepherd's purse contains shepherd's purse acid, which has hemostatic effect and is suitable for treating bulbar hemorrhage, dysentery, edema, nephritis, chyluria, hypertension and symptoms of fundus hemorrhage caused by hypertension.

However, shepherd's purse is not suitable for everyone, and it is not suitable for people with deficiency and cold constitution, anemia and women with less menstrual period. Mustard can't be eaten with rabbit meat, and it is easy to get malignant sores when eaten together, especially for pregnant women. You can't eat too much, and eating too much may cause miscarriage.

When cooking shepherd's purse, it is best not to use garlic, ginger and cooking wine to flavor it, which will destroy the fragrance of shepherd's purse itself. Moreover, when frying shepherd's purse, the time should be strictly controlled and should not be too long, otherwise it will destroy the nutrients in shepherd's purse. When choosing shepherd's purse, it's best not to choose the one with flowers. The one with flowers is old and the taste is not so good. Shepherd's purse is suitable for eating with eggs or tofu, which can relieve the symptoms of dizziness and headache, and also clear away heat and decompress.

Generally speaking, the nutritional value of shepherd's purse is still quite high, and most wild vegetables do not contain pesticides. We only need to pay attention to whether we are unfit for eating. If our constitution is suitable for eating shepherd's purse, it is nutritious and delicious in spring, which is quite worth recommending.