Burdock, alias beef cabbage, white muscle ginseng, etc. , a compositae plant whose roots and fruits can be used as medicine. Biennial or perennial herbs, which only have rooted leaves in the first year and blossom and bear fruit in the second year. The taproot is fleshy and upright, with a height of 100-260 cm and many branches. Rooted leaves are large, long stems are clustered, and cauline leaves are alternate and triangular. The edge is microwave-like or fine steel serrated, the leaf surface is dark green and smooth, the back of the leaf is gray-green, with outer villi, head-shaped flowers, tubular reddish purple, flowers clustered at the top of the stem, achenes, oblong, obovate, gray-brown, spotted. Its fleshy roots are tender, crisp and nutritious. It is a treasure in vegetables. You can cook, fry, pickle, sauce, make soup, make tea and make juice. Has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, lowering cholesterol, enhancing human immunity, and preventing diabetes, constipation and hypertension. Seeds are mainly used to treat exogenous cough, pneumonia, sore throat and sore swelling.

Hawthorn burdock slimming soup

raw material

Hawthorn 5 yuan, burdock 1 kg, yam 6 Liang, carrot 1, salt 2 tsps.

Exercise:

1. Burdock is peeled and washed (Figure 1), cut into hob pieces and soaked in light salt water (Figure 2); Peel carrots and cut into hob blocks; Dice the yam.

2. Wash the hawthorn quickly with clear water, put it into the pot with burdock, carrot and yam, add 5 bowls of water to boil, turn to low heat and cook until the burdock is cooked and soft, and season with salt.