Wild vegetables are becoming increasingly popular. Gray gray vegetable is a kind of wild vegetable with a long history. As a wild vegetable, gray gray vegetable has good nutritional value and has the function of clearing heat and promoting diuresis. However, it also has side effects, so it should not be used indiscriminately!
Medicinal properties of gray gray vegetable
(1) In addition to being used as a food source, gray gray vegetable also has medicinal properties. It has a cool nature and a sweet and bitter taste, and has medicinal properties such as clearing heat, promoting diuresis, reducing blood pressure, relieving pain, killing insects, dispelling dampness, and detoxifying;
It can be used for treating sores, swellings, scabies, or eczema.
(2) The whole plant of gray gray vegetable can be used as medicine. It has the medicinal properties of antidiarrheal and anti-itching, and has good therapeutic effects on dysentery and diarrhea.
Using gray gray vegetable to brew a soup with wild chrysanthemum flowers can also treat skin dampness and itching.
(3) As a health wild vegetable, gray gray vegetable can also supplement calcium, prevent anemia, and promote the growth and development of children.
The unique substances in gray gray vegetable, such as volatile oil and alkaloids, also have the functions of killing gastrointestinal parasites and eliminating bad breath.
Side effects of gray gray vegetable
Although gray gray vegetable is good, there are also taboos in its use.
For example, "Gan Chi Gray has a slight toxicity" is mentioned in the book "Yi Lin Zuan Yao".
Patients with photosensitive dermatitis may appear after eating gray gray vegetable.
Because it is a photosensitive vegetable, it is better to consume it at dinner, and people who are usually sensitive to light should be cautious in eating it.
Friendly reminder: Before consuming gray gray vegetable, it should be washed multiple times and then blanched with boiling water to ensure safety.
