Eating wild vegetables such as shepherd's purse and wife in spring can keep you healthy.

Spring is a season rich in wild vegetables. Urban people who are tired of eating big fish and big meat can eat more wild vegetables in spring season, which can play a very good health care role. There has always been a saying in China that "medicine and food are homologous", which is more obvious in wild vegetables.

The flowering period of shepherd's purse is from April to June, and people can often see white shepherd's purse flowers in the fields. Its main dietotherapy functions are cooling blood to stop bleeding, tonifying deficiency and strengthening spleen, clearing heat and promoting diuresis. Pick some tender shepherd's purse stems and leaves or overwintering buds in spring, blanch them, then make cold salad, dip in sauce, make soup, make stuffing and stir-fry. You can also cook delicious shepherd's purse porridge.

Eating old women is good for the liver. The old woman, also called dandelion, has been seen by many people in the wild. Its pollen contains vitamins and linoleic acid, and its branches and leaves contain choline, amino acids and trace elements. Mother-in-law's main functions are clearing away heat and toxic materials, reducing swelling and diuresis. It has broad-spectrum antibacterial effect, can also stimulate the immune function of the body, and achieve the function of benefiting gallbladder and protecting liver. It can be eaten immediately, fried or made into soup. For example, jellyfish skin mixed with old ladies and fried shredded pork can be mixed with green tea, licorice and honey to make a cup of old ladies green tea that can clear away heat and toxic materials and reduce swelling.

Bitter vegetables can inhibit leukemia. The scientific name of bitter vegetables is kimchi or chicory. The stems are yellow and white; The leaves are round and lanceolate, with green surface and gray-green back; The flowers are bright yellow and ligulate. Dried bitter vegetables are rich in potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, sodium, iron, manganese, zinc, copper and other elements. Bitter vegetables clear away heat and dry dampness, reduce swelling and discharge pus, remove blood stasis and detoxify, cool blood and stop bleeding. The concentrated ethanol extract of Kucaitang has inhibitory effect on acute lymphoblastic leukemia and acute and chronic myeloid leukemia. The common eating methods are garlic mixed with bitter herbs, sauce mixed with bitter herbs, and bitter herbs mixed with pork liver.

Platycodon grandiflorum can resist ulcers. Platycodon grandiflorum is also called cabbage and monk hat, which is what Koreans call Daoraki. Its branches can produce small blue flowers. We usually eat platycodon grandiflorum, which has expectorant and cough relieving, antipyretic and sedative, hypoglycemic, anti-inflammatory, anti-ulcer, anti-tumor and bacteriostatic effects.

Amaranth clearing heat and diuresis Amaranth roots are generally purple or lavender; There are few branches on the stem, with green or lavender stripes; The leaves are oval. We usually eat tender amaranth stems and leaves, which have the functions of clearing away heat and diuresis, detoxifying, nourishing yin and moistening dryness. Besides fried food, cold salad and soup, amaranth is often used as stuffing.