The countryside is full of grass, what you know is treasure, today I introduce you to a kind of weed that likes to grow in the stream, it is both a wild vegetable and a medicine.
Watercress
It is a perennial herb of the cruciferous genus Watercress, with a height of 20 to 40 cm, and its stem has many knots, but it has indefinite roots, and the stem is creeping on the surface of the water, mostly in flowing shallow water, especially in water streams. Watercress is a kind of folk wild vegetable in the mountains, and now there are many plants in some places, but our countryside is wild and does not need to be planted, and the watercress grown is not as delicious as wild. Because the wild watercress will naturally grow luxuriantly in the stream with good water quality, but the artificial planting should pay attention to the fertility of the soil, and the fertilizer can grow rapidly, so it is natural to eat wild and natural watercress that is more delicious.
Water indigo
Also known as spicy tateshina, it is an annual herb of the family Tateshina, which does not grow tall, has glandular spots on both sides of the leaves, and has a spicy smell when kneaded, which is very pungent. When we were young, we used to cut the water indigo and cut it, and then cook it and feed it to the pigs, which could reduce the spicy taste, and the pigs also liked to eat it, and the pigs grew fast. In ancient times, when there was no chili pepper, it was eaten with water indigo as a spicy agent, and water in ancient winemaking was often used, such as rice wine, liquor and so on. Although the water indigo grows short, but the effect is very large, has a good medicinal value, has a loose stasis pain relief, anti-inflammatory diarrhea, dispel wind and dampness, detoxification and insecticide and other effects.
Dog liver dish
It is a perennial herb with leaves that are ovate or ovate diamond-shaped, and the whole plant is verdant and green, and looks very tasty. In fact, dog liver vegetable is a common wild vegetable in the countryside, it is full of color and flavor, young leaves are used to boil egg soup, delicious, very tasty, nutritious, but also has a good health effect. Stew lean meat with dog liver vegetables, but fragrant, children also especially love to eat, but also can treat children's chancre, cold, fever and other symptoms, is a common folk natural plant recipe. I remember when I was a child, I went with my friends to pick dog liver vegetables during the holidays, and then took them to the market in Weizhen to sell, a handful of two cents, and bought sugar to eat in exchange for money.