Endives are also called curiosa, borage, and rabbit lettuce. Flowers and young leaves can be added to salads or fried. The root can be made into coffee or caffeine-free coffee, which is softer than dandelion coffee.
Borneol is native to Europe and is currently distributed throughout the world. In China, except for extreme conditions of extreme cold weather and soil conditions, such as alpine grasslands, meadows, deserts, Gobi, and desert deserts, several of them spread across Chinese provinces and regions; in foreign countries, they are mainly distributed in North Korea, Japan, Mongolia, the Caucasus, Siberia, and Central Asia. Far East and Southeast Asia, South Asia countries.
Endives - medicinal value
Chinese name: Endives
Drug Name: Endives
Pinyin: KUJU
Source: whole plant of dicotyledonous plant Asteraceae plant rabbit lettuce.
Efficacy: detoxification
Indications: Treatment of jaundice, acne, bloated.
Taste:
1, "Qian Jin food governance": "bitter, flat, non-toxic."
2, "Jiayou Materia Medica": "bitter, flat, a cloud cold." Into the liver, lung two classics
Usage and dosage: Oral: boiled or simmered. For external use: apply sip dressing or powdered dressing.
Alias: Wild chicory ("Qian Jin food governance"), Chicory ("Jiao Materia Medica"), rabbit lettuce ("Guangzhou Flora")
Medicinal parts: The root of this plant (Kidiana root) is also used for medicinal purposes, with special details.
Distribution of animal and plant resources: Distribution in southern and northeast China.
Harvest and storage of herbs: harvested in spring and summer.
Latin name: Lactucaversicolor (Fisch.) Sch. Bip.
Research: from "Jiayou Materia Medica"; "Jiao Materia Medica": "Ethracei, that is, wild chicory also, wild, also known as chicory. Today people eat is chicory, Jiangwai, Lingnan, Wu people without chicory, Taste nougat for cooking."
Relevant herbs: Gesneriaceae, Scirpus, Endives, Endomone, Endives
Chinese medicine believes that cold bitterness, bitter taste, non-toxic. Anti-inflammatory detoxification effect. Applicable to appendicitis, enteritis, cervicitis, mastitis, tonsillitis, pharyngitis, acute jaundice hepatitis, bacterial dysentery embolism. It can prevent cancer, protect gallbladder and liver, and resist ulcers and stomach. External use can treat bloated, help wound healing, reduce pain. It is a certain effect on liver disease. Due to the high content of iron in bitter tonic, it can prevent anemia and promote children's growth and development. Eating sowthistle can help promote the synthesis of antibodies in the human body, enhance the body's immune system long-term consumption can improve the body's immunity, prevent diseases. Promote brain function.
Endangered food value
Bitter herbs are not only widely known in China, they also have many friends in Europe. According to reports, the common portholes in Europe are very similar in shape to Chinese bitter herbs. They also have yellow flowers and hollow stems. Therefore, European people commonly call it "milk dish." European farmers generally refer to bittersweet as "pork husband dishes." It is said that as long as the sow is fed with fresh orthorax, it can increase its milk and ensure the healthy growth of the piglet. In addition, the sorrel is also a kind of edible vegetable in Europe, and European people often collect young leaves for salad.
Solanum sativus, also known as bitter herbs, has yellow-white stems; leaf blades are round-lanceolate, green on the surface, and gray-green on the back; flowers are bright yellow. Bitter herbs are rich in potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, sodium, iron, and other elements, can heat, swelling, stasis detoxification, cooling blood to stop bleeding. Bitter herbs have inhibitory effects on acute lymphocytic leukemia, acute and chronic myelogenous leukemia. The bitter leaves of the bitter herbs can be eaten raw, slightly bitter tasted raw, cooked with boiling water, the bitterness can be removed. Bitter herbs can be fried, soup, or add some soy flour to make a small tofu to eat, but also boiling water after the consumption of pasta sauce. Or make miscellaneous lettuce and bitter porridge.
The international health food industry attaches great importance. Studies have shown that: bitterscotch is an excellent health food. The white pulp of the sorrel borer contains "sowchow", resin, a large amount of vitamin C, and various flavonoids. It is said that foods containing foodstuffs can be used to control infections caused by a variety of bacteria or viruses and to improve human immunity. Foreign countries have also developed a variety of health foods such as sorrel, which contains the sonic juice, sockeye nutritious biscuits, solanchoside salad dressing and so on.