What to eat during the rainy season - shepherd's purse

　　What is good to eat during the rainy season? Professor Yang Li, a famous TCM health expert and China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, believes that the best diet in this season is: bean sprouts and shepherd's purse. Eat shepherd's purse during the rainy season. Shepherd's purse is a "health-protecting herb" used both as medicine and food.

　　Shepherd's purse has been eaten in my country for thousands of years. There is a poem in the "Book of Songs" that says "Who says tea is bitter, but it is as sweet as shepherd's purse", indicating that people had been eating shepherd's purse in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Since ancient times, shepherd's purse has been a very favorite wild vegetable. In many places in our country, people eat boiled shepherd's purse on the third day of the third lunar month. egg According to the custom, some people still collect a large amount of shepherd's purse on this day, dry it, and keep it to boil water for regular consumption. Some people start picking shepherd's purse and eat it as a vegetable when the young leaves of shepherd's purse sprout on the spring equinox in March. They say that this vegetable can cure all kinds of diseases and is very beneficial to the body. They call it "health-protecting grass". Therefore, the folk proverb says: "On the third day of March, shepherd's purse is used as a panacea. ”

　　Shepherd's purse is such a vegetable that is common, easy to obtain, delicious, and very beneficial to people. Therefore, it has formed an indissoluble bond with the poor people and poor scribes of the past dynasties, leaving immortal famous sayings. Du Fu has "the old spring chestnut under the wall". Fan Zhongyan in the Northern Song Dynasty was poor in his early years and often ate shepherd's purse. He wrote in "Ode to Shepherd's Purse" that "Tao Jiaweng's house pickled it into green and yellow color, put it in his mouth, and chewed the raw Gong Shangjiao."