Does anyone know the medicinal value of bracken?

The fern is really delicious. Lu You, a poet in the Song Dynasty, once praised Pteridium aquilinum, saying that "the fern buds are tender and the spring vegetables are pressing". Mountain fern is one of my favorite foods. It is naturally a pleasure to go up the mountain to enjoy the scenery and pick ferns in spring. When I was in my hometown, when I was picking bracken, I often made an appointment with my colleagues and strolled up the mountain every weekend. When we came back, everyone had bracken in their hands and had a midnight snack at night. I haven't had much chance to taste bracken since I left my hometown. Although some colleagues occasionally say that they are free to pick ferns together, they can't do it once. People in three districts of Wenzhou didn't know how to eat ferns at first. When the reservoir immigrants of Taishun Wencheng settled in Longwan Ouhai and other places, they found that no one picked the bracken in the mountains, and they all rushed to carry baskets and bags first. It turned out that the local villagers laughed when they saw it. How to eat these weeds? But now bracken has become a delicious food that they are full of praise, and sometimes they will join the ranks of picking ferns in the mountains.

In fact, as early as three or four thousand years ago, our ancestors had records of bracken. The Book of Songs Lu Ji Shu said: "Pteridophytes, mountain vegetables also. Life is like garlic, purple stems are black, and food is like sunflower. " Pteridium aquilinum, also known as auspicious dish and dragon claw dish, is recorded in Qi Yaomin's Book and Compendium of Materia Medica. Pteridium aquilinum has the effects of clearing away heat, inducing diuresis to reduce swelling, calming the nerves, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain. It can be used to treat fever, dysentery, jaundice, leukorrhagia and other diseases, and can also be used as a diet therapy for rheumatoid arthritis and hypertension. There is a short story in Searching for the Gods: a disciple of Chi Jian Town made a mistake in February. A soldier broke off a fern and ate it, then he fainted and spit out a small snake, which hung in front of the house and gradually dried into a fern.

Pteridophytes like temperature and are widely distributed in China. Pteridophytes are mostly picked in spring, while the climate in the south is warm, and the vegetable picking season can last until September and1October. It only takes two or three days from ferns drilling out of the ground to growing leaves. It is necessary to pick vegetables while fern is still like fuel for children. There is a poem in the Yellow Valley that "fern teeth begin to grow out of children's fists", which is the most suitable time for picking. If it is too late, when the child's fist-like fern grows into leaves, it will become a big wolf and cannot be eaten. Pteridophytes usually grow in gentle hilly areas of Shan Ye, where there are few woody plants and fertile soil. The vegetation on the mountain has been burned in winter, and there will be more ferns in the coming year.

Mei's poem says: wine glasses and tea sets, as well as ferns and vegetables. Mountain people often pick ferns for daily dishes. This kind of work is usually done by women and children. Just when men go up the mountain to work, they also pick some and bring them back on hoes or poles. Since ancient times, picking ferns has been very popular. There is a sentence in The Book of Songs, Zhao Nan Cao Chong, which says, "I admire the southern mountains and pick their ferns". "Yuefu" is also "a woman who crosses the river in Jindu, and her clothes are full of fragrance. Weave spring curtains and pick ferns to carry baskets. " The song. Children like to follow adults up the mountain to pick ferns. You can run all over the mountain and experience the joy of finding and picking fat ferns from time to time.

In the Ming Dynasty, Luo Yonggong once wrote a poem praising the taste of bracken: "Boil the purple agate into piles, and chew the glass at the entrance. It is sweet to dissolve, but it is very refreshing. " Such a delicious bracken, its cooking method is relatively simple. Generally, newly picked ferns should be scalded with boiling water to remove astringency, and at the same time, ferns become soft and tough. Heat a wok with high fire, add oil, cut a little ginger after frying, and then cut the bracken into small pieces and stir fry. After about two or three minutes, add a little water to cover it. After two minutes, pour in a small amount of yellow wine and cook for a while, and a dish of delicious food will come out. But be sure to control the heat, don't overcook it and chew it like mud. You can't live. If you live too long, you will have sticky silk. Ferns should be light-colored. For people who like spicy food, adding some spicy food will taste better. I'm afraid of spicy food, so I only put a little mustard tuber in it.

Due to the influence of seasons and regions, it is impossible to supply fresh bracken anytime and anywhere. Clever mountaineers now make ferns into dried ferns, add seasoning, put them in vacuum packaging bags, and tear them apart to be practical. Dried bracken in Wencheng Taishun and other places are exported at home and abroad, which has become one of the ways for mountain people to get rich.