Goose Intestine Weed was once a lifesaving food for the poor, now it is a rare commodity at 40 yuan per jin

The author still remembers that as a child, living in the rural mountains, the family was very poor, living conditions were bad, without enough food or warm clothing, and often went up the mountain with parents to dig wild vegetables and wild herbs to eat, so for all kinds of wild vegetables and wild herbs especially grateful and especially fond. The author thinks that friends who lived through that era have more or less eaten some wild vegetables, especially during the famine years, when quite a few wild vegetables became lifesaving food for the poor.

In the morning, in a farmer friend's vegetable garden in the village, the author saw a rare kind of "vegetable". The reason this vegetable is said to be rare is that it was once a wild vegetable, and was once a lifesaving food for the poor rural people. The author ate it as a child, and here in the author's hometown, farmer friends call this wild vegetable "Foot Skin Weed". Although the name of this wild vegetable is very plain, it is indeed deeply loved by many farmer friends, and surely quite a few friends have eaten it too.

The scientific name of Foot Skin Weed is Stellaria aquatica (goose intestine weed), and in some places it is also called chicken intestine weed, black kelp, small sea tangle, wild sea tangle, foot cabbage, goose egg weed, winnowing basket weed, gluten weed, earth sea tangle, shredded kelp, etc. Stellaria aquatica is also very widely distributed in our country, almost throughout every province and city, and its adaptability is also very strong, growing on mountains from 300 m to 2700 m in altitude, and it likes to grow in wasteland, roadsides and rather shady, damp grassland.

So since Stellaria aquatica can be eaten as a wild vegetable, what values does it have?

Although the author ate Stellaria aquatica as a child, at that time it was to fill the stomach, and the author did not know what value it had. Now after looking up information on Stellaria aquatica, the author discovered that its nutritional value is actually so high.

According to records, Stellaria aquatica is rich in protein, fat, dietary fiber, phosphorus, carotene, vitamin B2, vitamin C, potassium, calcium, magnesium, sodium, iron, manganese and zinc and many other nutrients, and eating it often is also good for the body in many ways.

In addition, the whole plant of Stellaria aquatica can also be used as medicine. Its taste is sour and its nature is neutral, and it has the effects of clearing heat and relieving strangury, cooling blood and invigorating blood, reducing swelling and relieving pain, resolving food stagnation and promoting lactation, etc. It can be used to treat infantile malnutrition, toothache, dysentery, hemorrhoid swelling and pain, difficult urination, urinary tract infection, acute and chronic appendicitis, mastitis, blocked milk flow and other conditions.

It is precisely because Stellaria aquatica has edible and medicinal value that its value has risen greatly today. According to farmer friends who grow Stellaria aquatica, if it is sold as a wild vegetable it is about 10 yuan per jin, and if it is sun-dried and sold as a medicinal herb it is about 40 yuan per jin. Compared with the past, today's Stellaria aquatica can be considered a rare thing.

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