According to Compendium of Materia Medica, "shepherd's purse can clear liver and improve eyesight, harmonize spleen and promote diuresis",
Chinese medicine believes that shepherd's purse is sweet in taste and flat in nature. When it enters the stomach meridian, it can reduce stomach fire without hurting the bitter and cold stomach. Entering the small intestine meridian can clear the small intestine fire and treat urination; Entering the spleen meridian can promote diuresis and strengthen the spleen.
Shepherd's purse is very gentle and can be used by babies under one year old. If the baby accumulates food, it can be cured by boiling water with old shepherd's purse with seeds, and it is not easy to get stomach trouble when he grows up.
It is also good for the elderly to eat shepherd's purse, which can lower blood pressure, induce diuresis and prevent cataracts.
For ordinary people, it is best to eat shepherd's purse in spring, which can prevent various epidemics and alleviate allergic symptoms that are easy to appear in spring.
Shepherd's purse can also stop bleeding and has certain curative effect on all kinds of bleeding. People who love nosebleeds or frequent gum bleeding can usually eat more shepherd's purse.
Shepherd's purse is found all year round in the south. If you are cooking, you can pick it whenever you want. However, if used as medicine, shepherd's purse grown in early March of the lunar calendar has the best medicinal properties. Because it is still cold in early spring and grows slowly, it has the highest medicinal value. What comes out later will grow quickly and its medicinal value will decrease.
Portulaca oleracea is all over the country. Its leaves are small and round, its stems are red and round, its meat is full, and it is easy to recognize yellow flowers in summer. Fresh purslane tastes crisp and tender, and tastes as smooth and slightly sour as amaranth.
Portulaca oleracea as a vegetable, its taste is not particularly good, but its medical and health care value is quite high. Compendium of Materia Medica records that purslane, also known as the Five Elements, is cold in nature and sweet and sour in taste; Entering the heart, liver, spleen and large intestine meridian. Efficacy: clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting diuresis and removing dampness, promoting blood circulation and reducing swelling, removing dust and sterilizing, diminishing inflammation and relieving pain, stopping bleeding and cooling blood.
Indications: dysentery, enteritis, nephritis, postpartum uterine bleeding, bloody stool, mastitis and other diseases.
In addition to Compendium of Materia Medica, this magical wild vegetable Portulaca oleracea has been recorded in cursive scripts of past dynasties: "Portulaca oleracea is famous for its Julia, red stem, yellow flower, white root and black seed. Force of nature, the five elements are accounted for. " Therefore, its role cannot be underestimated.
Its root is white, so it can reduce lung heat, and its stem is red, which can dredge cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Its leaves are green, which can clear away heat from the liver and relieve the pressure on the liver. Its flowers are yellow, which can remove all damp heat in the intestine. Its seeds are black, which can actually tonify the kidney a little, improve fertility and enhance renal function.
Therefore, red, yellow, green, white, black and five colors are sufficient, and the five colors correspond to the five internal organs, so they are also called five-element dishes. Five colors can be reflected in it, so it has created the unique effect of purslane.
Remind friends that purslane is cold, cool and slippery. Be sure to eat a small amount at first, and you can eat more when you get used to it.
There are three kinds of people who should avoid eating purslane:
First, people with diarrhea caused by abdominal cold;
Second, pregnant women. Portulaca oleracea is slippery and has the function of slippery tires;
Third, if you are taking Chinese medicine and there is turtle shell in the prescription, you should pay attention to purslane and turtle shell, and don't eat them together.
"On March 23, bitter vegetables rose." This is a folk proverb circulating in Bohai Bay, Shandong Province. According to legend, the Virgin once visited the people and found that the most bitter season for the people was not in the cold winter, but in the spring. Many people don't have enough to eat, and life is very difficult. Trafficking in children and girls occurs from time to time. The virgin thought: if there are wild vegetables connected with the harvest, people will not sell their children and will not starve to death. Thinking of this, I threw my long sleeves, bitter vegetables were everywhere, and slowly emerged from the soil. Today is the 23rd day of the third lunar month, and it is also the birthday of the Virgin Mary. People rushed to the fields, dug up wild vegetables and stewed them with a small amount of corn flour or bran. Although it is not delicious, it can be eaten. When the ship was pushed into the sea and there were wild vegetables on the shore to satisfy the hunger, the most difficult sun and moon of the year passed.
Although the story is fictional, it is not difficult for us to feel that bitter vegetables have indeed solved some people's stomach problems in hard years.
If people used to eat hard food to survive, now it is more because of its nutrition and health care value. Medical books such as Compendium of Materia Medica, Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica and Qianjin Fang Yi all have different notes and explanations on the use of bitter vegetables. Bitter food is good for health, which can not only clear away heat and toxic materials, but also cool blood and promote diuresis.
Bitter vegetables are edible except stems and leaves, but they are all treasures. Chinese medicine believes that bitter vegetables taste bitter and cold. Sophora alopecuroides enters the bladder meridian, which has the effects of removing blood stasis, stopping bleeding, clearing away heat and detoxifying; Bitter cauliflower is sweet and flat, which can dispel summer heat and soothe the nerves; Bitter rapeseed can treat jaundice.
Sonchus sonchifolius is a non-toxic wild plant for both medicine and food. It has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, removing blood stasis and relieving pain, and has certain curative effects on dysentery, common cold and fever, chronic tracheitis and tonsillitis. The decoction of Sophora alopecuroides L. 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 to prevent cervical cancer, rectal cancer and anal cancer.
It should be noted that bitter vegetables are cold because of their bitter taste and are not suitable for people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold.
In May, Sophora japonica is like snow, fragrant and sweet. In the fragrance season of Sophora japonica in May, the fragrance is refreshing, so during the May Day holiday, we might as well go to the game farmhouse to see Sophora japonica: when it is in bud, it is hidden in a bright green, so people can't help picking a bunch, holding it in their hands and holding it in their mouths.
Sophora japonica is also called Sophora japonica. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, "Sophora japonica is bitter in taste and slightly cold in nature, belonging to the liver and large intestine meridian. It has the effects of cooling blood, stopping bleeding and clearing heat. Yangming and Jueyin blood are also divided into drugs. " Indications: hematemesis, epistaxis, hematuria, bloody stranguria, hematochezia, hemorrhoids, metrorrhagia, wind-heat conjunctival congestion and carbuncle. In many parts of our country, there is a habit of eating Sophora japonica.
Chinese medicine believes that Sophora japonica is a food with the same origin of medicine and food. Sophora japonica tea has the functions of lowering blood pressure and blood lipid, and is a kind of medicinal tea suitable for patients with hypertension and hyperlipidemia.
Modern pharmacological research shows that Sophora japonica contains many medicinal components such as rutin, quercetin and quercitrin. Quercetin can dilate coronary vessels, improve myocardial circulation and reduce blood lipid.
The antioxidant effect of selenium in Sophora japonica is 300~500 times that of vitamin C and vitamin E, and it has anti-aging effect. Adding Lycium barbarum into Sophora japonica L. tea can lower blood pressure and blood lipid, and has better health care effect.
It should be noted that people with spleen and stomach weakness and fever due to yin deficiency should use it with caution.