What's the legend of chicken manure vine?

Paederia japonica, scientific name of traditional Chinese medicine. It is the whole grass of the Rubiaceae plant Paederia scandens, which is harvested in summer and dried in the sun. Its taste is sweet, slightly bitter, and its nature is flat. Has the effects of expelling pathogenic wind, promoting diuresis, relieving pain and toxic materials, promoting digestion, resolving food stagnation, promoting blood circulation and reducing swelling. Used for rheumatism, muscle and bone pain, traumatic pain, hepatobiliary and gastrointestinal colic, dyspepsia, infantile malnutrition and bronchitis; Externally used for dermatitis, eczema and sores.

There is a folk legend that women can also replenish blood by eating chicken manure and rattan soup on the first day of the seventh lunar month. According to the custom in some places in Hainan, on the first day of the seventh lunar month, every household should eat "chicken dung vine".

The method of "chicken manure vine" is to pound (grind) the fresh chicken manure vine leaves and soaked rice into powder in a stone mortar or rice mill, and then mix them with water to knead them into insect-like seeds the size of a little finger. After the water in the pot is boiled, add melon seeds, shredded ginger and shredded coconut, and then add a proper amount of brown sugar, and the delicious "chicken manure vine" will be ready. Or add coconut milk and ice cubes to the baby to make a cool "coconut milk chicken excrement rattan baby".

"Pig excrement bean" is a good tonic. Little known in the past, Jiteng Bazi, which conforms to the concept of green food, has now become the most famous snack in Qionghai. 1999 was packaged and upgraded by local chefs, and even listed as one of the "famous Chinese snacks".

Now look at the slightly indecent name of chicken manure vine, but it has become an alternative snack in the eyes of tourists. In Qionghai, JiTeng is a well-deserved protagonist of supper. In summer, a bowl of iced coconut juice, chicken manure and rattan seeds is cool and pleasant, sweet and soft; In winter, a bowl of hot chicken manure rake, accompanied by the fragrance of brown sugar and shredded ginger, can dispel the fatigue of the day.