Alias: Sophora alopecuroides, Japanese lotus, Sophora alopecuroides, Sophora alopecuroides seedlings, Patrinia, Sophora alopecuroides, kelp, Gesneriaceae, Buxue Dan, Sophora alopecuroides, Sophora alopecuroides and Patrinia.

Introduction: Sonchus oleraceus is the whole grass or root of Sophora alopecuroides in Compositae. Harvesting in early spring, washing, fresh use or drying in the sun. Born in Shan Ye, it is a weed in the field. It is distributed in the north, east and south of China, as well as in the former Soviet Union, Korea, Japan and Vietnam. Sophora alopecuroides is a perennial herb with a height of 10-30cm. It has no hair and milk. Stems few or many clustered, erect or oblique. Basal leaves are rosette-shaped, strip-lanceolate, oblanceolate or strip-shaped, 7-20cm long and 0.5-2cm wide, with sharp or blunt tips, tapering into stalks at the base, whole or sparsely denticulate, or irregularly divided and grayish green.

Edible

(1) Prevention and treatment of anemia, heatstroke prevention and health care. Bitter vegetables are rich in carotene, vitamin C, potassium salt, calcium salt and so on. It has a good effect on preventing and treating anemia, maintaining normal physiological activities, promoting growth and development, relieving summer heat and protecting health.

(2) clearing away heat and toxic materials, sterilizing and diminishing inflammation. Sonchus sonchifolius contains dandelion sterol, choline and other components, which has a strong bactericidal effect on staphylococcus aureus resistant strains and hemolytic streptococcus, and also has a certain killing effect on pneumococcus, meningococcus, diphtheria, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Shigella dysenteriae, so it has a certain curative effect on jaundice hepatitis, pharyngitis, bacillary dysentery, common cold and fever, chronic tracheitis and tonsillitis.

(3) Prevention and treatment of cancer. The water decoction of Sophora alopecuroides has obvious inhibitory effect on blood cell deoxyenzyme in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and acute and chronic myeloid leukemia, and can also be used for preventing and treating cervical cancer, rectal cancer and anal cancer.

Medicinal value

Sophora alopecuroides has obvious curative effect on diabetic patients, because diabetes is a typical endocrine disorder disease. According to the five flavors of food: bitter, spicy, sour, sweet and astringent, we usually eat too much sweet food and seldom bitter. Therefore, over time, the imbalance of food nutrition led to endocrine disorders. Bitter hemp is a dry thing, which can make up for the five flavors of modern diet and is excellent for diabetics. In fact, everyone should eat it often. Many people who use it as tea say that they have never caught a cold since drinking Sophora alopecuroides tea. Bitter vegetables can diminish inflammation and eliminate fire, and it is definitely effective to prevent influenza. It is a good wild vegetable health product to enhance the immunity of modern sub-health people. It is the first choice for the popular swine flu.

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Efficacy and function of sonchus oleraceus;

It has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood, promoting diuresis, reducing swelling, expelling pus, removing blood stasis, relieving pain, tonifying deficiency and relieving cough.

Taboo of bitter vegetables;

Although bitter vegetable is a delicious food and a natural wild nutritious vegetable, it has great medicinal value, but it is not suitable for excessive consumption alone, because eating too much will hurt the spleen and stomach.

Bitter vegetables are suitable for physique: those with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold are not suitable for eating;

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