How to eat prickly lettuce

The prickly lettuce is commonly used as a wild vegetable. It is a very common native plant in the countryside. People usually pick it, wash it, and use it to make soup, stir-fry, or mix it directly into cold dishes. Because it is rich in bactericidal and anti-inflammatory effects and can improve immunity, it is widely used in daily life and is very popular.

Not good for qi deficiency.

Edible value

Sheep and pigs like to eat it when they are young, but cattle and horses eat it less frequently. The plant remains green after autumn and can still be used to feed pigs. The prickly lettuce has hard thorns and the stems are hard and thick after lignification. The utilization period is May to July. In the early stage, it can be used for grazing, or picked with roots, remove the soil, chopped directly and fed to pigs raw or made into silage. The plants can be cut before and after flowering and dried in the sun, and can be used to make flour to feed pigs in winter and spring. In addition, this species is an autumn nectar plant. The whole plant with flowers or rhizomes are medicinal materials. The young shoots of prickly lettuce are wild vegetables and can be stir-fried or made into soup.

Chemical composition

The whole plant with flowers contains rutin, proto-catechuic acid, chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid, and potassium chloride. Inarin is acaciin, also known as acacetin-7-rhamnoglucoside, acacetin, tyramine, taraxasterol, φtaraxasteryl acetate, taraxasterol, φ-taraxasteryl acetae, triacontanol, β-sitosterol, and stigmasterol.

Hazard Management

Common weeds in farmland and orchards, sometimes they are numerous and cause serious damage.

It mainly harms dryland crops such as wheat, cotton, and soybeans. Because its creeping rhizomes are well-developed and highly resistant to drugs, it is difficult to prevent and control. The protective effect of 58g/L diflunisal suspension of Maixi on prickly lettuce is poor. 2-Methyl-4-chloro-4-chloride has a certain preventive effect on prickly lettuce and can be used after the wheat is in the 4-leaf stage and before jointing.