The efficacy and function of dried winter vegetables

With the development of society and the close international exchanges, most people who study medicine have been seriously influenced by Western medicine, and fewer and fewer people are studying Chinese medicine, which has resulted in less and less understanding of Chinese medicine. Let’s talk about the efficacy and functions of dried winter vegetables as a traditional Chinese medicine.

[Other names] Moldy dried vegetables (Compendium of Materia Medica Supplement), old dried vegetables (Bencao Zaixin).

[Source] It is the stems and leaves of the cruciferous vegetable, which are pickled with salt and steamed in the sun .

【Original form】For details about the form, please refer to the entry for "Cabbage".

【Nature and flavor】Salty, bitter, neutral.

【Meridian】 "Bencao Zaixin": "enters the lung and kidney meridians."

【Functions and indications】Nourishes Yin, stimulates appetite, resolves phlegm, and relieves diaphragm. Treats lung heat, phlegm, cough, sore throat and aphonia.

[Additional prescription] To treat Bai Huo Dan, this disease is like water swelling, with swollen limbs, pale skin, fullness and unwillingness to eat, and fear of seeing lights: boil winter vegetables (do not put them in water, the older the better), boil them into a soup for bathing, and drink the decoction. (Supplement to Gangmu)

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

Everyone should know the effects and functions of dried winter vegetables. Dried winter vegetables have high medicinal value and are very common Chinese medicinal materials. They are very good for our body.