The bitter vegetable is the young leaves of the plant Bitter Dinna, family Asteraceae. Medicine and food both multi-annual herb. The medicinal name is sepsis grass, synonym girl flower, deer intestine horse grass. Folk commonly known as bitter vegetable, alias Tian Xiang Cai, Tuan bitter pods, Gan Ma Cai, the old stork dishes, no incense, etc., because of its leaves like a snake, Shandong is also called the snake worm seedling. Taste sweet slightly bitter, can be fried or cold. Cold vegetables first choose a good wash, blanch lightly over the water to dry and cool, ginger and garlic minced, add salt, chicken essence, sesame oil, sugar, rice vinegar, chili oil a little, stir evenly after the plate can be. There are antibacterial, antipyretic, anti-inflammatory and eye-opening effects.
Morphological features:
Perennial herb, 30-100 (-200) cm tall; rhizomes transverse or oblique, with numerous fine roots at the nodes; stems erect, yellowish-green to yellowish-brown, sometimes lilac, often covered with deciduously inverted white coarse hairs in the lower part or glabrescent, often subglabrous or inverted and slightly curved strigose in the upper part or sparsely longitudinally strigillose in 2 rows.
Expanded Information:
Health Principles and Functions of Bitter Lettuce:
Bitter Lettuce has a significant effect on diabetic patients because diabetes is a typical endocrine disorders- -Rich disease. According to the five flavors of food: bitter, spicy, sour, sweet, astringent, usually we eat too much sweet food, and very little bitter.
So the imbalance of food nutrition over time leads to endocrine disorders. Bitter hemp is withered and astringent, which can make up for the five flavors of the modern diet and is excellent for diabetics. Practically anyone should eat this thing often. Many people who use this substance as a tea say that they have not gotten a cold since drinking bittermaize tea. The bitter mama cabbage itself is an anti-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory, and is certainly effective in preventing the flu. To enhance the modern subhealthy people's own immunity is a good kind of wild vegetables health care products. The popular "swine flu" is the preferred prevention tea.
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