Eating these wild vegetables regularly has many benefits: they aid digestion, refresh the mind, and can even help with weight loss.

Chongcai (a pickled mustard-type vegetable) is rich in nutrients and has both high culinary and medicinal value. It tastes light and refreshing, can strengthen the spleen and stimulate appetite, and helps with weight loss and slimming, making it a great choice for shedding pounds. Chongcai is very tasty, crisp, spicy and refreshing, and goes superbly with rice! It can promote the digestive function of the stomach and intestines and increase appetite. To make chongcai, you can also use green vegetables as the raw material. Take half a jin of fresh tender hearts of green vegetables (the best are those that are bolting and have slight flower buds), wash them, air-dry the moisture (best to sun-dry them until half-dry), then chop them up; wash an iron wok and heat it until very hot (the higher the temperature, the better), then add the chopped green vegetable hearts and dry-fry until just cooked, scoop them into a clay pot and press them firm with a spatula, cover with a clean towel, then invert a large bowl with a mouth slightly smaller than the clay pot over it to seal it tightly, so as to prevent the pungent smell from escaping. After 8-10 hours, take it out, add seasonings and mix evenly, and the dish is ready.

Yanwei cai (swallowtail vegetable) has both high nutritional and medicinal value. It is mainly harvested for its tender shoots, which can be stir-fried or used in hot pot. It has a slight bitterness and functions to cool the blood and stop bleeding, and to detoxify and reduce swelling and pain. Yanwei cai is mainly harvested for its tender shoots, used in hot pot, and is rich in fiber.

Snow mustard (potherb mustard) has effects such as detoxifying and reducing swelling, stimulating appetite and aiding digestion, and warming the middle and regulating qi. It mainly treats sores and abscesses with swelling and pain, chest and diaphragm fullness and oppression, cough with profuse phlegm, loss of hearing and vision, swollen and rotting gums, constipation and other conditions. It refreshes the mind. Snow mustard contains a large amount of ascorbic acid, a highly active reducing substance that participates in the body's important oxidation-reduction processes, can increase the oxygen content in the brain, stimulate the brain's use of oxygen, and has the effect of refreshing the mind and relieving fatigue. Detoxifying and reducing swelling. Snow mustard has a detoxifying effect, can resist infection and prevent the occurrence of disease, inhibit the toxicity of bacterial toxins, promote wound healing, and can be used as an auxiliary treatment for infectious diseases. Stimulating appetite and aiding digestion. After pickling, snow mustard has a special umami and aroma, can promote the digestive function of the stomach and intestines, increase appetite, and can be used to stimulate appetite and help digestion. Improving eyesight, soothing the diaphragm, and relaxing the bowels to relieve constipation. Snow mustard has relatively coarse and hard tissue and contains carotene and a large amount of dietary fiber, so it has the effect of improving eyesight and relaxing the bowels to relieve constipation. It can serve as an excellent dietary remedy for eye patients, and can also prevent and treat constipation, and is especially suitable for the elderly and those with habitual constipation.