Although it is a weed, drinking its juice is a good medicine for curing diseases.

Dandelion, also known as chicory, often grows in fields, roadsides, and near villages and is a field weed. Its tender stems and leaves are rich in carotene, VB2 and VC, and can be eaten. The whole plant of chicory is used as medicine, which has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, removing dampness and lowering blood pressure. Its tender stems and leaves can be eaten raw. Blanch them in boiling water, then soak them in clean water to remove the bitterness, and then eat them cold or stir-fry.

The efficacy and function of bitter vegetable

According to traditional Chinese medicine, bitter herbs are bitter and cold in nature.

Clears away heat and detoxifies, disperses blood stasis and relieves pain, stops bleeding and stops leucorrhea. Used for cervical erosion, excessive leucorrhea, uterine bleeding, lower leg lymphangitis, traumatic injuries, unknown swelling, mastitis, furunculosis, burns, and vaginal trichomoniasis.

1. Clear away heat and cool blood

Dandelion is bitter and cold in nature, and has the effect of cooling blood. Used to treat dysentery, jaundice, hematuria, hemorrhoids, fistula, and swelling, etc. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that it can "treat hemorrhoidal rashes." People with weak spleen and stomach should avoid eating it.

2. Sterilization and anti-inflammatory

Dandelion contains ingredients such as taraxacin and choline, which have a strong bactericidal effect. It has certain therapeutic effects on jaundice hepatitis, pharyngitis, bacterial dysentery, colds and fever, chronic bronchitis, tonsillitis, etc.

3. Blood supplement and health care

Dandelion is rich in carotene, vitamin C, potassium salt, calcium salt, etc., which are effective in preventing and treating anemia, maintaining normal physiological activities of the human body, and relieving heat and health care.

4. Prevent cancer

The decoction of bitter vegetable has a significant inhibitory effect on blood cell deoxygenase in patients with acute lymphocytic leukemia and acute and chronic myeloid leukemia. It can also be used to prevent cervical cancer, rectal cancer, and anal cancer.

5. Promote development

Eating bitter vegetables helps promote the synthesis of antibodies in the human body, enhance the body's immunity and promote brain function. The rich iron content in bitter herbs helps prevent anemia, and the various inorganic salts and trace elements are beneficial to the growth and development of children.

Bitter vegetable recipe

It is often used in combination with honeysuckle, forsythia, etc. to treat sores, carbuncles and swellings. At the same time, the fresh grass of this product is mashed and applied externally. It is used with safflower, hawthorn and other drugs to treat postpartum blood stasis, abdominal pain and other symptoms.

To treat liver cirrhosis: one ounce each of chicory and Oxalis. Stew with pork.

To treat chronic bronchitis: one pound of chicory and twenty dates. Fry the chicory until it is soft, use the decoction to cook jujubes, take them out after the skin of the jujubes unfolds, and boil the remaining liquid into a paste. Take one spoonful of ointment and one jujube each morning and evening.

To treat infantile malnutrition: stew one or two ounces of chicory with pork liver.

To treat mouth ulcers: grind 1 cup of wild bittercress juice, add 1 spoon of ginger juice, mix with wine, and apply the residue.

To treat bee stings: apply chicory juice.

To treat red, swollen and painful breast nodules in women: Crush the juice of purple chicory, boil it in water, and drink it with a little water or wine.