The efficacy and function of winged chrysanthemum

Winged Caraway, also known as mountain lettuce, bitter bamboo shoots (Jiangxi Province), mountain horse grass (Guangdong Province), and wild lettuce (Hainan Province), is an annual or biennial woody plant belonging to the genus Winged Caraway of the Asteraceae family. It is mainly distributed on hillsides below 1,800 meters above sea level, in bushes, fields, and roadside grass, covering a wide area. The fruit season is from April to November. Wolf grass has medicinal value.

The root of Chrysanthemum winged fruit is a traditional Chinese medicinal material. Poria cocos has a slightly cold effect and has the effects of clearing away heat and fire, dispelling wind, removing dampness, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Chrysanthemum winged fruit is used as an anti-tumor drug in folk customs. Yan Fulin et al. isolated a new sesquiterpene lactone compound from the roots of Multifid Winged Carp or High Winged Carp, which can be used to resist cardiac and cerebral ischemia and has the effect of improving memory.

The tender young leaf stems of the above-ground part of the Winged Caraway plant can be eaten as wild fruit. It is commonly called big bitter vegetable, mountain oil lettuce, lettuce, mountain lettuce, goose food, duck food, bitter lettuce, etc. Eating it in summer can refresh and reduce internal heat. There are already cultivated varieties of Winged Caraway, which can be used as a supplement to vegetables and fruits in off-season or as a special wild fruit for tourism in poor areas. , lettuce has high value in food, medicinal value, appreciation and industrial production.

In general, in recent years, in the research of Pteris plants, a number of valuable new and known ingredients have been discovered one after another. Many of these ingredients have medicinal values ​​in various aspects such as anti-tumor, antioxidant, anti-cardiovascular disease, lowering blood lipids, lowering blood sugar, and lowering blood pressure, which fully proves that this genus of plants has a high comprehensive utilization value as a food and medicine. Due to the abundant natural resources of Pteris crenata plants in various provinces of China and their spread rate like weeds, it is necessary to accelerate the research on their development and application.