15 grams Taobao price: ￥8.50 yuan. Dried chicory is available in traditional Chinese medicine stores. Gesneria, scientific name is Gesneria, has yellow flowers and its roots, stems and leaves all contain milk. It is a perennial herbaceous plant of the Compositae family. It is not only a wild vegetable that people like to eat, but also has high medicinal value. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: bitter, cool, non-toxic; it is used as medicine in the north. It can clear away heat and detoxify, replenish deficiency and relieve cough, reduce swelling and resolve stagnation. Take one or two pieces of dried chicory and boil it in water for oral administration, which can treat acute bacterial dysentery; boil water and drink it as tea, it can cure stranguria and hematuria; fresh chicory, mashed and applied externally, can treat snake and insect bites and boils and pimples. Modern research has found that the oral administration of the ointment of chicory and bittersweet (local name: balsam pear) has a certain effect on the treatment of gastric cancer and thyroid cancer. Endive is a wild vegetable with strong vitality. It reproduces its offspring by the extension of roots and the spread of seeds. It does not require fertilization or weeding. It can grow anywhere, whether it is watered land, dry land or saline-alkali land. If you pull it out, within a few days, a fresh little life will grow in its place. As soon as winter is over, the footsteps of the spring girl come slowly, and the value of the emerald green shoots that have just sprouted from the chicory has doubled. The eldest girls and daughters-in-law in the countryside scoop it out of the ground, blanch it in boiling water, add more sesame oil and seasonings, and then make a pot of rice, a mouthful of rice and a mouthful of vegetables. It is so fresh, so delicious, and so bitter. There is sweetness in the middle and bitterness in the sweetness, leaving you with endless aftertaste. Farmers often pick fresh chicory and sell it in the streets of the city, making it a delicacy for city residents. Today, when life is affluent, it is even canned as a "green food" and placed on the dining tables of high-end restaurants, and has made its way into the halls of elegance. Endive is delicious, easy to eat and nutritious, but it will only become a delicacy on the table if you have a full meal. In an era when you don't have enough to eat, it is just an edible weed. During the "Three Years of Natural Disaster", people collected chicory, blanch it in boiling water, chop it into pieces, mix it with sorghum flour and cornmeal to make vegetable dumplings or "Old Man Against the Wall", dry the chicory and grind it into flour. Green cake tastes very bitter, and it is not difficult to swallow if you are hungry. However, it not only acts as the power of life, but also relieves the pain of difficulty in defecation caused by eating other "food substitutes", helping people get through that era. Chicory has a bitter taste and is often found in the company of weeds. It has neither gorgeous flowers nor an astonishing floral fragrance. It asks for nothing from others, but giving to others is indeed a great contribution, so it is favored and praised by people.