The Chinese name for pig's wife cabbage is Swiss chard.

Swiss chard is also known as thick-skinned chard, pig spinach, cowhide chard, light chard, pig chard, pig hemp chard. Mostly cultivated in southern China, it is one of the endemic vegetables in the south, and is used as a vegetable with seedlings or leaves. Pig chard is cold in nature, and is especially good to eat in the hot and humid spring. Because of the fast growth, pigs like to eat, farmers used to grow this vegetable is mainly used as pig feed, so it is also called "pig's wife vegetable".

Nutritional value of pigweed:

It's leaves are generally used as vegetables; stems and leaves have the effect of clearing away heat and detoxification and stopping bleeding; the whole plant is used as fodder, and it is highly adaptable, and the pigs like to eat it, but the piglets can't be overfilled.

The stem leaves are especially developed, large and green, can be used as vegetables and fodder; root seeds into medicine, there is a detoxification of wind-heat, stopping bleeding and muscle effect.

Jiahu Materia Medica recorded: cowpea "tonifying the middle and lowering the qi, regulating the spleen qi, removing the wind in the head, and benefiting the five viscera". It can be boiled, stir-fried or stir-fried, such as stir-fried Swiss chard, Swiss chard burned tofu, stir-fried with meat.

Folk believe that plantago major stir-fried with round-grained rice porridge **** cooking, can relieve fever, strengthen the spleen and stomach, strengthen the body. Shaoguan, Guangdong, there is a "Swiss chard package", is to use the white Luo hours, fresh asparagus, leeks and other cut grain with hydroponic shrimp, mushrooms, lean meat particles * * * stir-fried, thickening, and then wrapped in Swiss chard leaves frying pan, frying the leaf stalks should be put on the pot. This dish has a unique flavor and a long aftertaste after eating.

The above content reference? Baidu Encyclopedia - Swiss chard (Stapeliaceae Quinoa)