How to eat prickly lettuce without pricking your mouth

There are many small thorns on the prickly lettuce, so you need to be especially careful when picking it. After picking, remove the impurities and wash it clean before eating it directly. The way to eat it is also relatively simple. Usually, the prickly lettuce is best with more green leaves. After washing, the prickly lettuce can be stir-fried with meat or made into soup. After frying, the thorns on the surface have begun to soften, so there is no need to worry about pricking your mouth.

Prickly lettuce

Other names: small thistle, cat thistle, green thistle, thousand-needle grass, thorny thistle, green vegetable, lush vegetable, spear vegetable, wild safflower, thorny vegetable, wood thorn wormwood, thorny vegetable, thorny bud, thorn grass, shepherd's purse, little evil chicken, prickly radish, small thistle, thorny grass, cattle thorn, thorny grass, small thorn cover

Introduction: It is the whole herb or rhizome of the Asteraceae plant. It is a perennial herb that grows on hillsides, wastelands, roadsides or fields, and is distributed in all parts of the country except Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and Tibet. The flowers are harvested when they bloom in summer and autumn, removed from impurities, and dried in the sun, or used fresh.

The rhizome of thistle is white and fleshy. It has a faint smell and a slightly bitter taste. The ones with more green leaves are better.

Season: Spring, Summer

The efficacy and function of prickly lettuce

Diuretic and detumescent, hemostasis and cooling blood, anti-inflammatory and analgesic

How to choose thorny vegetables

The best ones are green in color and have many leaves.

How to make prickly lettuce

The young shoots of prickly lettuce are wild vegetables and can be stir-fried or made into soup.

Suitable body constitution for prickly lettuce

People with yang deficiency, qi deficiency, and yin deficiency should avoid eating or eat less;

Nature and flavor and meridians

Sweet, bitter, cool. It enters the heart and liver meridians.

Function and indications

Cools blood and stops bleeding, removes blood stasis and reduces swelling. Used for epistaxis, hematemesis, hematuria, bloody stool, metrorrhagia, bleeding from trauma, carbuncles and sores.

Usage and Dosage

4.5~9g. For external use, take an appropriate amount of fresh product, mash it and apply it to the affected area.

Additional prescription

1. Thistle root juice: 150g fresh thistle root, mash and squeeze out the juice to drink, or drink with boiling water.

Originated from "Dietary Materia Medica" and "Zhongzhong Canxilu". The fresh root has a strong effect of cooling blood and stopping bleeding. It is used for epistaxis, hematemesis, bloody stool caused by blood heat, or premature menstruation and menorrhagia caused by blood heat.

2. Cool Blood Five Juice Drink: fresh lotus root, fresh rehmannia root, fresh thistle root, and fresh burdock root in equal parts. Squeeze the juice, 1 cup each time, add 1 spoon of honey, stir evenly, and drink a little at any time.

Originated from "Shenghuifang". Fresh lotus root, rehmannia root and burdock root can clear away heat, promote salivation and quench thirst. Except for burdock, the other herbs can cool blood and stop bleeding. Suitable for vomiting blood due to blood heat, dry mouth and thirst.

3. Small Thistle Drink: 60g each of Small Thistle (whole herb) and Motherwort. Add water to boil the soup, remove the residue and boil again until thick.

Originated from "Shengji Zonglu". This product is used together with Leonurus japonicus, an important herb for removing blood stasis and stopping bleeding, to achieve the effect of removing blood stasis and stopping bleeding. Used for abortion or when there is blood stasis or bleeding that does not stop.

4. Prickly thistle juice: 150g of fresh young and tender whole grass (thistle seedlings), cut into sections and mash into juice for drinking. It can also be cooked into soup and eaten as a dish.

Originated from "Dietary Materia Medica" and "Japanese and Chinese Materia Medica". This product tends to clear away heat and relieve restlessness. Used for heatiness, dry mouth and difficulty urinating in summer.

medicine

"Medical Records of Combining Chinese and Western Medicine" records: Small thistle, commonly known as Qiqicai in Shandong, where the word Qi is a transliteration of the word Ji. In Fengtian, it is commonly known as Qiangdaocai because of its many thorns like guns and knives. Both its roots and stems can be used, but the roots are particularly good. Cut the fresh ones, mash them, take their natural juice and drink with boiled water. If it is used in decoction, do not boil it for too long to keep it fresh. Boil it for about four or five times and then drink the soup. When worms grow in its stems, they form lumps that look like small dates, and their ability to cool the blood is even stronger. If you take more than ten fresh ones, mash them, and drink them with boiled water, it is especially effective in treating vomiting blood and nosebleed caused by heat. When using, it is best to choose the tender and white ones grown in farmlands.

Clinical Application:

Xiaoji Yinzi (Yuji Weiyi) is used to treat hematuria and hematuria caused by heat accumulation in the lower part of the body. Frequent urination, red, astringent, hot and painful urine, blood in the urine, or hematuria, red tongue with yellow coating, and rapid pulse. 30g of raw rehmannia, 15g of small thistle, 5g of talc, 6g of akebia, 9g of pollen, 8g of lotus node, 9g of lophatherum gracile, 6g of angelica, 9g of gardenia, and 6g of licorice. Take 4 qian each time, remove the residue and drink warm on an empty stomach before meals. In the formula, thistle cools blood and stops bleeding, and is the main medicine.

2. Shihuisan (from "Ten Medicines Magic Book") is used to treat upper part bleeding caused by blood heat. Coughing up blood, hemoptysis, vomiting blood, the blood is bright red, the tongue is red, and the pulse is rapid. 9-15g each of great burdock, negundo, lotus leaf, cypress leaf, Imperata root, madder root, gardenia, rhubarb, peony bark, and palm bark. Take with warm water, or boiled as a decoction and taken after meals. The herb, Cibotium barometz in the formula, is a cold and blood-regulating herb and is the main ingredient.

3. Wash an appropriate amount of fresh chicory, mash it or dry it and grind it into powder, then apply it externally to treat bleeding from trauma.

Contraindications

People with spleen and stomach deficiency and coldness but no blood stasis should not take it.

"Essentials of Pinhui"

Avoid touching iron objects.

2. Bencao Jingshu

It is not good for diarrhea caused by weak stomach, extreme blood deficiency, weak spleen and stomach, and loss of appetite.

3. Bencao Huiyan

Not good for qi deficiency.