The old people in the countryside often say: "There are no weeds in the countryside, and all that can be used are treasures". The vast territory of the countryside and the abundance of resources have given birth to countless strange plants, each with its own value and its own use. Among these many plants, there is such a plant, which exudes the smell of, and the old people in the countryside call it vine. This plant is very common in rural areas, especially on the sides of roads.
Chicken poop vine, its Chinese scientific name is chicken yavine, named because the plant has a taste similar to chicken poop. Chicken feces vine is also called stinky vine, stinky fart vine, dog fart vine, soil ginseng, turtledove rice, female green, it is a perennial grass-made vine-like shrub plant of the Rubiaceae family, chicken feces vine, like to climb on other plants. The stems and leaves of this plant are opposite, ovate or lanceolate, and they feel a little papery to the touch, and you can smell a smell of chicken poop when you rub them with your hands. Li Shizhen recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" written: "Rubbing its leaves and smelling it, there is a smell, I don't know what the name is, people because of its smell, so it is called stinky vine", talking about the plant of vine.
When the chicken poop vine blooms in the summer, the flowers are purple and look like sweet potato flowers, like a small trumpet. The fruit stage of the chicken poop vine is in autumn or winter, and the fruit is spherical and golden yellow when ripe. As soon as you pinch and explode with your hands, you can smell a very strong smell of, which is even richer than the leaves. At present, this plant is mainly distributed in the south of the Yangtze River, and is commonly found in understory or roadside shrubs. There is the distribution of this plant in many countries in Southeast Asia, although the chicken feces vine smells, but its value is very high, it has three main functions.
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1. The young leaves of the vine are edible.
On March 3rd, the chicken vine, in March every year, in many places in the south, they will go to the wild to pick the young leaves of the vine before eating it as a wild vegetable. Start to blanch, add green onions, ginger and garlic, the taste is crisp and refreshing, and there is no slightest peculiar smell, very delicious. Of course, most places still like to pick the young leaves of the vine, take it back and break it and make rattan baba, or make rattan rice balls and rattan vermicelli and so on.
Of course, in addition, vines can also be used to boil eggs, and it is okay to cook porridge in soup. How much is it loved by the common people, and the young leaves of the vine in the vegetable market can even be sold for 25 yuan a pound in the peak season, which shows the popularity of this plant.
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Second, chicken feces vine has high medicinal value.
Chicken feces vine medicine and food homology, its young leaves are a high-quality wild vegetable, it also has a very high medicinal value, its roots can be used for medicine, is a very common folk Chinese herbal medicine. Especially in rural areas, if there are farmer friends who encounter indigestion, people who understand the value of this plant will go to the wild to pick its young leaves to use. It is recorded in the "Sexual Essentials of Raw Herbs": "and rattan are boiled for meat, nourishing deficiency and benefiting the kidneys, removing fire and replenishing blood, washing sores and relieving pain, dissipating heat and dissipating poison." Its leaves are eaten with rice and sugar to stop dysentery". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that chicken feces and vines are bitter, sweet and slightly cold, and if used as medicine, it has the use of eliminating food and strengthening the stomach, dissolving phlegm and relieving cough, clearing heat and detoxifying, and relieving pain.
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3. vine can be used to make tea and drink.
Chicken feces vine is both medicinal and edible, and its value is extremely high, not only a delicious wild vegetable, but also a common Chinese herbal medicine. In addition, the leaves of the vine can also be used to make tea, and the young leaves of the vine are picked in summer, washed and soaked in boiling water. Coupled with an appropriate amount of sugar to taste, the tea is drunk after cooling, and the taste is fragrant and sweet.
When I was a child, in the hot summer, my grandparents would cool a pot of vine tea when they went out to work every day, and they would drink a cup after work. Do you understand the farmer friends?If you come across this plant when you go out, don't miss it, pick some back, whether it is to make wild vegetables to eat or to make tea is a very good choice.
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