Shepherd's purse has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, cooling blood to stop bleeding, clearing liver-fire, improving eyesight, invigorating stomach and promoting digestion, and can be used for treating diarrhea, dysentery, dysuria, hematemesis, hemoptysis, hematuria, metrorrhagia, conjunctival congestion and malnutrition.

The custom of eating shepherd's purse

The folk consumption of shepherd's purse has a long history, which is recorded in the Book of Songs and the Book of Rites, taking its advantages in health care.

Spring and March are the season when shepherd's purse grows lush and tender. The custom of "boiled eggs with three dishes in March" has always been popular in Jiangnan area, that is, fresh shepherd's purse is cooked with soybeans, passepartout or ginger and red dates, with eggs. Or take japonica rice100 ~150g to cook porridge, add fresh shepherd's purse 60g ~100g when cooked, cook slightly, and season with salt. This kind of shepherd's purse porridge is very suitable for people with food stagnation and poor appetite. What people often do now is to wrap jiaozi with fresh shepherd's purse, which is called Spring Warm bloom. However, it should be noted that shepherd's purse is cold, and people with spleen and stomach deficiency should not eat it in large quantities.

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