Xiaoman solar term is one of the twenty-four solar terms and the second solar term in summer. In Xiaoman season, everything flourishes and grows most vigorously, and the physiological activities of the human body are also in the most vigorous period. It is important to supplement nutrition in time. Then let's learn about the efficacy and function of bitter vegetables that Xiaoman must eat.

Sophora alopecuroides, commonly known as Sophora alopecuroides, is a kind of non-toxic wild plant for both medicine and food. Bitter vegetables are all over the country. Medically, it is called Patrinia, Ningxia is called "Bitter Vegetable", Shaanxi is called "Bitter Vegetable" and Li Shizhen is called "Tianxiang".

Kuding tea is bitter with astringency, astringent with sweetness, fresh and refreshing, cool and smooth, rich in nutrition, containing vitamins, minerals, choline, sugar, riboflavin and mannitol, and has the functions of clearing heat, cooling blood and detoxifying. Compendium of Materia Medica: (Bitter vegetables) Long-term use, peace of mind and qi, intelligence and fitness, anti-aging. In medicine, sowthistle is often used to treat fever, and the ancients also used it to sober up.

People in Ningxia like to cook bitter vegetables, wash them and eat them with salt, vinegar, spicy oil or garlic paste to make them cool and spicy, and eat steamed bread and rice, which greatly increases their appetite. Pickling bitter vegetables in yellow rice soup is also useful. It tastes sour and sweet, crisp and refreshing. Some people also boil bitter vegetables with boiling water, and squeeze out bitter juice to make soup, stuffing, stir-fry and cook noodles, each with its own flavor.

Bitter vegetables have the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood and promoting diuresis, reducing swelling and expelling pus, removing blood stasis and relieving pain, tonifying deficiency and relieving cough. It has a good effect on preventing and treating anemia, maintaining normal physiological activities of human body, promoting growth and development, relieving summer heat and protecting health.

Conclusion: Eating bitter herbs can promote the synthesis of antibodies in human body, enhance immunity and promote brain function. To treat anemia, a variety of inorganic salts and trace elements are beneficial to children's growth and development, and a variety of vitamins can promote wound healing and prevent vitamin deficiency.