These 11 kinds of wild vegetables are natural medicine

1 Shepherd's purse

Shepherd's purse, probably the most well-known kind of wild vegetables. In March and April, the bright green caper leaves with serrated teeth are the most tender.

Shepherd's purse contains acetylcholine, sterol and quaternary amine compounds, which can reduce blood and liver cholesterol and triglyceride levels.

Shepherd's purse is also rich in vitamin C and carotene, which can enhance the body's immunity.

Specific eating methods: whether stir-fry, make soup, chopped as a filling, porridge, all have a distinctive flavor, such as caper tofu soup, caper ravioli, caper porridge.

2 Qingming vegetable

The reason why this wild vegetable is called "Qingming vegetable", mainly because in the Qingming before and after the consumption of flavor is the best, otherwise too young or too old taste will be very poor.

Cleaning vegetables contain lipids, volatile oils, a large number of carotenoids and a small amount of B vitamins, rhamnosus, potassium nitrate, potassium chloride, etc., can expand the local blood vessels, can be used to prevent and control high blood pressure.

Specific eating method: the traditional way to eat is to wash the seedlings after draining the water pounded into the mud, filtered fresh juice and glutinous rice flour mix, add sugar, fresh orange peel fine threads and other seasonings, made into a round cake steamed and eaten, that is, the "green dough". If it is too much trouble to make, you can also make soup, the Qingming vegetable chopped directly into the soup to enhance the flavor.

3 Amaranth

Diabetes, although currently incurable, usually eat more amaranth can play a role in lowering blood sugar, blood sugar control.

The amaranth is rich in norepinephrine, which can promote the pancreas to secrete insulin, regulate the process of human glucose metabolism, reduce blood glucose concentration, maintain constant blood glucose, known as the table "insulin".

Specific eating method: there are many ways to eat amaranth, blanched and fried food, cold, do filling can be, such as amaranth scrambled eggs, amaranth buns.

In addition to blood sugar control, amaranth is also a natural antibiotic, can be used for skin allergies caused by redness, swelling and heat pain, prickly heat, eczema, itching after mosquito bites.

Specific methods: 90 grams of fresh amaranth (30 grams of dried amaranth), decoction and scrub. You can also pound the amaranth and apply the juice to the affected areas of the skin.

4 small root garlic

Small root garlic, also known as Allium, the northern people also call it mountain garlic, wild onions.

For the elderly, garlic is a good thing for health care. It can "nourish the heart", can warm the heart Yang, dredge the blood, lowering blood lipids, to prevent atherosclerosis, is the prevention and treatment of heart disease of the top food. Where the heart is not functioning well, or usually feel chest tightness, pain in the heart area, often eat small roots of garlic, can prevent coronary heart disease, angina and so on.

Specific eating methods: small root garlic mixed with tofu, small root garlic white fungus porridge, small root garlic scrambled eggs and so on.

5 dandelion

Dandelion, also known as "Borneo", has a bactericidal and bacteriostatic effect on Staphylococcus aureus, typhoid fever bacillus, dysentery bacillus, the degree of disease inhibition and killing effect, has a "natural antibacterial medicine" reputation. It has the reputation of "natural antibacterial drug". Modern medical research has found that dandelion can treat upper respiratory tract infections, acute bronchitis, gastric ulcers.

Specific eating method: For dandelion, the most common way to eat is cold, the first dandelion clean, blanch, directly put some sesame oil, chili, salt, vinegar and other spices mix can be. Of course, it can also be used to make filling dumplings, pancakes.

6 Fishweed

Fishweed leaves are heart-shaped, there is a specific fishy flavor, and this fishy flavor has a very good antiviral effect. It can kill the flu virus and is effective against upper respiratory tract infections and lung infections.

Specific eating method: fishweed is usually coupled with chili pepper cold to eat, fishweed cool, and chili pepper hot, the combination of the two can complement each other, but also to play the role of fishweed to fight bacteria, treatment of viral infections. If it is wind-heat cold, herpes or urinary tract infections, to eat raw is good. In addition, fishweed brewed as a tea, can combat tonsillitis, pharyngitis.

8 Bitter greens

Bitter greens, also known as endive, have a high medicinal value, and have a very good effect on cholecystitis, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases.

Because this wild vegetable is rich in carotenoids and vitamins, it has medicinal value for treating anemia diseases and improving body immunity.

Specific eating method: bitter vegetables because the taste is more bitter, many people may not be accustomed to eating, it is recommended not to eat directly raw, can be blanched and then cold, can reduce some of the bitter taste. You can also blanch the bitter vegetables after chopping to do stuffing to eat, the bitter flavor is not very heavy.

9 Malan head

Malan head is pungent and cool in nature, it has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxification, cooling the blood and stopping bleeding, and promoting dampness and swelling. Generally suffer from pharyngitis, tonsillitis, mumps and other purulent inflammation can ask it to help.

Specific eating methods: the most common way to eat is Malan head mixed with dried incense, but also can be made into tofu soup, tender tofu smooth and Malan head of the fragrance can be said to complement each other. It's best not to leave them overnight, as they lose their moisture and become less flavorful. If you have a lot of marjoram, you can use it as a filling.

10 Andrographis

Andrographis contains natural anti-inflammatory and antiviral components such as andrographis esters, which have preventive and therapeutic effects on colds, pneumonia, pharyngitis, and stomatitis.

Specific eating methods: Andrographis paniculata can be eaten in a variety of ways, such as cold mixed with sesame oil, stir-fried with garlic or shabu-shabu hot pot.

11 alfalfa

Alfalfa, also known as golden cauliflower, grass head, which contains a large amount of iron, can be used as an auxiliary food for the treatment of anemia, alfalfa contained in the B vitamin components, can be treated with pernicious anemia. In addition, alfalfa also contains vitamin K with hemostatic effect, commonly used to treat gastric disease or hemorrhoidal bleeding.

Specific eating method: alfalfa fried in oil, cooled and then eat better flavor, the juice has a refreshing feeling, in the dry season, if you feel dry lips and tongue, used to meals, is to maintain the health of the top dishes.

12 ash greens

Ash greens, also known as ash greens, gray strips. Consumption of ash greens can prevent anemia, promote children's growth and development, calcium deficiency in middle-aged and elderly people also have a certain health effect. Particularly to emphasize the grey cabbage with the intestinal, laxative effect, immediate effect. Eating gray cabbage, weight loss and slimming effect is very obvious.

Specific eating method: clean and blanch the young gray ash greens, mixed with onion, ginger, garlic, salt, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil can be eaten.