Watercress, also known as watercress, also known as mountain celery, wild celery, etc., is a kind of aquatic herbaceous plants, Chinese medicine, watercress taste sweet and pungent, cool, into the lungs, the stomach meridian, there is a clearing of heat and detoxification, nourishing the essence of qi, declaring the lungs and promote the efficacy of dampness, can be used to treat the urinary drenching pain, bleeding in the stools, jaundice, wind and fire, toothache, mumps and other diseases.
Nutrition, watercress contains more vitamins and minerals, its stems and petioles contain more dietary fiber. Dietary fiber through the intestinal digestion to produce a lignin or intestinal lipids of the material, this kind of material is an antioxidant, high concentration can inhibit the intestinal bacteria produce carcinogenic substances. It can also speed up the running time of feces in the intestine, reduce the contact between carcinogens and the mucous membrane of the colon, and achieve the purpose of preventing colon cancer. Meanwhile, dietary fiber can also achieve the effect of promoting intestinal motility and preventing constipation.
At the same time, watercress, like celery, contains volatile substances in the leaves and stems, with a special aroma, can enhance the appetite. When you don't have an appetite, you can mix it with watercress to promote your appetite.
Second, picking watercress pay attention to observe the environment to ensure that the health of the top
The Qingming trekking is also a good time to pick wild vegetables, watercress of course, is also in this list. There are two kinds of watercress, one is the real wild celery that grows in the wild, and the other is the artificial wild celery that is transplanted and planted artificially, and the ones you can buy in supermarkets or vegetable stores are usually the second kind. But if you really want to go out into the countryside with your own tools to harvest it, it's important to observe the environment in which the wild celery grows. If the water celery growing place around the chemical plant, sewage treatment plant and other facilities, should be considered water celery may be contaminated by water, containing more heavy metal ions and toxic and harmful ingredients, such water celery as far as possible to pick, so as to avoid damage to health and safety.
Additionally, if the watercress is grown in a safe environment, it should be blanched first for health and safety reasons, whether it is eaten raw or cooked, in order to remove bacteria, viruses, pollutants and other components that may be harmful to health from the watercress.
You can fry and eat the flavor is not bad.