Everyone must be familiar with cabbage. Cabbage is called cabbage not only because of its white color, but also because it is known as the first of a hundred vegetables. There is a story about this top dish! In fact, before the appearance of cabbage, there was another person who was known as the number one vegetable. It is sunflower. Our ancestors have eaten it for thousands of years, but they have not eaten it often since the Ming Dynasty.

It turns out that in the past, sunflower was the boss of vegetables, and it was the first of the five vegetables listed in the "Huangdi Neijing". Sunflower can be grown all year round. According to the harvest season, it can be divided into spring sunflower, okra and mallow. It is unknown whether there are summer sunflowers. Therefore, in ancient times when vegetables were scarce, sunflower was a very important vegetable to the ancients. Later, when cabbage appeared, sunflower was gradually ignored. Cabbage tastes better, and cabbage tolerates cold better than sunflower. Su Shi of the Song Dynasty once said that eating cabbage tastes better than eating mutton in winter.

Sunflower can also be seen in rural areas, especially on roadsides, courtyard walls, and in field grass. Sunflower soup tastes smooth when made into soup. Nowadays, many elderly people still like to pick it to make soup. In fact, as a wild vegetable, it also has other health-preserving effects.

Sunflower can withstand cold and is cold in nature. It can clear lung heat and relieve cough. It can be used to treat lung heat cough, especially for some cases of wind-heat cold, pneumonia cough and yellow pus cough. People with phlegm tend to have better curative effects.

Modern people’s diet is often too spicy and greasy. Many people suffer from various enteritis, stomachaches and indigestion at all times. Sunflower is a very light food, and it is cool in nature, which can clean the intestines, clear away heat and reduce inflammation. Sunflower has a good effect on enteritis and dysentery. Patients with these types of diseases may wish to eat more sunflower.

Due to the dissipation of essence and lack of Qi, the elderly often suffer from constipation in nine out of ten cases, which is very painful. At this time, another major effect of sunflower can be exerted. Sunflower contains soft and slippery substances, which can lubricate and moisturize the intestines, smooth the large intestine, and constipation will disappear naturally. Therefore, the wild vegetable Kwai Cai is still very suitable for the elderly to eat.