The origin and implication of boiled eggs with shepherd's purse on March 3 rd

The saying that shepherd's purse boiled eggs on March 3rd originated from a folk prescription. Mustard has a good effect on treating headaches, and it has been proved by research that it can also prevent meningitis. Mustard is also the local dish we are talking about now, and eating local dishes and boiling eggs on March 3 is not only a custom in Hunan, southern, central and north-central regions.

The implication of eating shepherd's purse and boiled eggs on March 3rd;

Eating eggs on March 3 rd means that you won't have a headache if you eat boiled eggs.

According to legend, in Chu, people have headaches because of wind and rain. On the third day of March, Shennong passed Yunmengze (now Xiaogan) and saw that the villagers had a terrible headache. He found wild eggs and vegetables and cooked them to satisfy people's hunger. When people eat it, their heads don't hurt. The custom of "on March 3, eating ground vegetables and boiling eggs will keep them from having a headache for a year" continues to this day.

However, this is just a folk saying. Although it is a traditional custom to eat cauliflower and boil eggs on March 3, its scientific nature remains to be verified.

However, from a nutritional point of view, although the ground vegetables are wild vegetables, they are rich in nutrients, which contain a lot of carotene, vitamin B and vitamin C, and the content of calcium and iron is also relatively high. These nutrients are beneficial to human health. In addition, the protein content of eggs is high, and lecithin and vitamin A are also rich, so two kinds of nutritious foods are naturally good for the body.

Method for boiling eggs with shepherd's purse

Before the third day of the third lunar month, dig some shepherd's purse in the wild, remove the sundries, wash them, and then put them into the pot together with the shepherd's purse roots.

Soak eggs in cold water for two or three minutes in advance to prevent them from breaking during cooking. Put the soaked eggs in a pot and cook them on high fire. After boiling, turn to medium fire and cook for seven or eight minutes, then turn off the fire. After stopping for one minute, remove the eggs with a colander, break them gently one by one, and then put them back in the pot. At this time, fire again and cook slowly. When you smell the fragrance of shepherd's purse and the soup in the pot changes color, take out the boiled shepherd's purse and add a little salt to the pot to turn off the heat. In this way, the eggs can be taken out and eaten after being soaked in shepherd's purse soup for a day.

Precautions for eating shepherd's purse and boiled eggs

1, don't eat sugar immediately after eating eggs.

Eggs can't be cooked with monosodium glutamate, which I believe many people already know. But you may not know that eggs can't be cooked with sugar, or eating sugar after eating eggs is not acceptable. Many places have the habit of eating poached eggs in sugar water, which is actually wrong! The combination of sugar and eggs will make amino acids in protein of eggs form a combination of fructosyl lysine, which is not easily absorbed by human body, so it is not conducive to health.

2. Don't eat goose or rabbit meat immediately after eating eggs.

Eggs can't be eaten with meat such as rabbit and goose. Li Shizhen said in "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Eggs and rabbit meat eat into a pool of dysentery." That's because rabbit meat tastes sweet and cold, while eggs are sweet and flat and slightly cold. Both of them contain some bioactive substances, which will react when eaten, stimulate the gastrointestinal tract and cause diarrhea.

3. Don't eat persimmon immediately after eating eggs.

Eating persimmons after eating eggs can lead to food poisoning, acute gastroenteritis and lung stones. Generally speaking, eating these two foods at the same time will lead to acute gastroenteritis with vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain. If you take it within 1-2 hours, you can use the method of inducing vomiting. Take 20g of salt and 200mL of boiling water, and drink it once after cooling, or mash it with fresh ginger to get juice and take it with warm water. If you take it for a long time, you can take laxatives under the guidance of a doctor to excrete toxic substances.

4. Don't take anti-inflammatory drugs immediately after eating eggs

Eggs are rich in protein, so you should pay special attention to the intake of protein when inflammation occurs, so remember not to take medicine after eating eggs when inflammation occurs. Especially for digestive tract diseases, people with diarrhea symptoms should not eat eggs. Because eggs contain more protein, it will increase the gastrointestinal burden, which will have an impact on the efficacy. If it is other inflammation, such as respiratory system, urinary system, etc., it has little influence from the perspective of western medicine.