In Luo Xixiu's home in Yuanjiaqiao Town, Taojiang County, Yiyang City, Hunan Province, firecrackers exploded and laughter continued. It turned out that Luo Xixiu, the oldest birthday star in Yiyang City, had a birthday of11. Nearly 100 people from the city and county offices for the aged, responsible comrades in local towns and villages and relatives of the elderly came to celebrate the birthday of the elderly. City and county-level offices for the aged presented "Top Ten Birthday Stars" plaques, flower baskets and birthday gifts respectively, and grandma Luo's younger generation presented birthday cakes.
Before liberation, Luo Xixiu's family lived in a deep forest called Pengjiadong in Yuanjiaqiao Town. It is difficult for her husband to make ends meet by cutting firewood and buying rice. In order to fill the family's stomach, Luo Xixiu often went up the mountain to dig all kinds of wild vegetables, and spent half a year making up for the lack of food. Wild vegetables mainly include wild celery, patrinia, wild lily, glutinous rice vine, sheep mouth and wormwood. The old birthday girl didn't get any serious illness in her life, and occasionally she seldom took medicine for minor illness. Being a "human being" has something to do with eating a lot of wild vegetables. All kinds of wild vegetables have medicinal value. Regular consumption can improve people's immunity and prolong life.
Zhongxiang City, Hubei Province is a famous longevity town in China. According to the data of the fifth national census in 2000, Zhongxiang ranked second among the longevity counties and cities in China. Elderly people over 100 years old 7 1, elderly people over 80 years old 10627, and elderly people over 90 years old 766. The average life expectancy in cities is 75.88 years. Most of the long-lived elderly in Zhongxiang City live in rural areas. Among these long-lived old people, most of them like to eat wild vegetables, and some even regard wild vegetables as the main course of life.
There are all kinds of wild vegetables growing on Zhongxiang's 4488 square kilometers of land. The wild vegetables that long-lived elderly people often like to eat are purslane, Toona sinensis, lichen, dandelion, Artemisia selengensis, Houttuynia cordata, bracken, coriander, wolfberry bud, plantain and so on. Wild vegetables not only contain protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals and other essential nutrients, but also contain abundant plant fiber. The vitamin and mineral content of some wild vegetables is several times or even dozens times higher than that of the vegetables planted, and most of them grow in the mountains and are not polluted by modern industry and pesticides and fertilizers, which is particularly precious.
Wild vegetables can not only enrich the dining table, but also be a good medicine for preventing and treating diseases. Dandelion has the function of clearing away heat and toxic materials, and is a delicious food for patients with diabetes and hepatitis. Shepherd's purse can clear liver, improve eyesight, stop bleeding, regulate spleen and stomach and lower blood pressure. Mainly used for dysentery, hepatitis, hypertension, gynecological diseases, eye diseases, measles in children and so on. There is a folk saying that shepherd's purse is a panacea. Amaranth has the function of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, and can be used to treat dysentery, enteritis, bladder stones, goiter, sore throat and so on. Bitter vegetables have the functions of clearing away heat, cooling blood and detoxifying, and can be used to treat dysentery, jaundice, anal fistula, snake bite, etc. The effect of grey vegetables is to eliminate dampness, detoxify and kill insects. It is used for itching or eczema. Pteridium aquilinum has the functions of clearing heat, promoting diuresis, invigorating qi and nourishing yin, and can be used for treating high fever, dizziness, muscle pain and dysuria.
Wild vegetables grow and go on the market all year round, or they are bought or picked to make buns, cook and make soup. Everything is delicious. It can not only enrich the food and recuperate for the blind, but also play a role in health care and treatment of diseases. Why not? However, I remind you that eating wild vegetables is also very particular. If you don't pay attention, it will be counterproductive and harmful to your health.
The main precautions for eating wild vegetables are as follows. Pay attention to the cooking methods of wild vegetables. It can be fried, cooled, stuffed, fried, stewed, roasted and boiled. The key is to choose different cooking methods according to the different characteristics of wild vegetables.
Wild vegetables should be fresh. The interval between washing and boiling should not be too long to avoid the loss of vitamins and inorganic salts. It is best not to eat wild vegetables that have been put for a long time. Wild vegetables are not only stale after being left for a long time, but also have reduced nutrients and taste very bad.
Don't eat wild vegetables you don't know, and don't eat wild vegetables that are easy to misunderstand to avoid poisoning.
Bitter wild vegetables should not be eaten more. Bitter vegetables taste bitter and cool, and have the effect of detoxifying and removing fire, but excessive consumption will damage the spleen and stomach.
Some wild vegetables on trees are not suitable for frying. There are not many kinds of wild vegetables on the tree, such as thorn buds and elm, which should be steamed or boiled in sauce. If fried, it is sticky and astringent and difficult to swallow.
Don't eat contaminated wild vegetables. The air near the suburban chemical plant is not good. Wild vegetables are easy to absorb chemicals such as lead, and wild vegetables near wastewater often contain toxins and are not suitable for eating.