What is the role of bitter herbs

Many people don’t know about bitter herb. In fact, bitter herb is a plant of the Asteraceae family, but it has great medicinal value because it can clear away heat and detoxify, cool blood, and it is also rich in carotene and vitamin C, which is also useful for preventing and treating anemia.

1. Dandelion is bitter and cold in nature, and has the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying and cooling blood. Used to treat dysentery, jaundice, hematuria, hemorrhoids, fistula, and swelling, etc. "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica" records that it "cools blood heat, chills the stomach, relieves abdominal congestion, and promotes diuresis and bowel movements." "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that it "treats hemorrhoids and hemorrhoids." People with weak spleen and stomach should avoid eating it.

2. Blood tonic and health care: Dandelion is rich in carotene, vitamin C, potassium salt, calcium salt, etc., which have a good effect on preventing and treating anemia, maintaining normal physiological activities of the human body, and relieving heat and health care.

3. Clearing away heat and detoxifying: Dandelion contains ingredients such as dandelion alcohol and choline, which have a strong bactericidal effect. It has certain therapeutic effects on jaundice hepatitis, pharyngitis, bacterial dysentery, colds and fever, chronic tracheitis, tonsillitis, etc.

4. Cancer prevention: The decoction of bitter vegetable has a significant inhibitory effect on blood cell deoxygenase in patients with acute lymphocytic leukemia and acute and chronic myeloid leukemia. It can also be used to prevent cervical cancer, rectal cancer, and anal cancer.

Although dandelion is a bitter wild vegetable, it is rich in nutrients. It contains various vitamins, minerals, sugars, etc. needed by the human body. It can be stir-fried, eaten cold, used as stuffing, cooked in soup, and can also be made into canned wild vegetables and pickled sauerkraut.