It is said that it was created by the famous doctor Hua Tuo. There is a legend: during the Three Kingdoms period, the famous doctor Hua Tuo came to Miancheng to collect medicine and was caught in heavy rain. When he went to an old man to take shelter from the rain, he saw that he was suffering from headaches, dizziness and other diseases. Hua tuo immediately diagnosed the old man, picked a handful of rice dishes in the old man's garden, and asked the old man to take juice and boil eggs. After the old man ate it, his head suddenly stopped hurting and his eyes stopped spending. As a result, this method quickly spread, people scrambled eggs with rice in succession, and gradually formed a custom in Miancheng, and Jianghan Plain became popular. Since the date when Hua Tuo treated the elderly was March 3rd, there was a custom of "eating local vegetables and boiling eggs on March 3rd, and not having a headache for a year", which has continued to this day.
Folk think:
After eating, it can ward off evil spirits, prevent messy Machamp from approaching, and also prevent children from having headaches and brain fever. Adults can keep fit and keep their ears and eyes open. Here are two common ways to cook eggs with shepherd's purse flowers.
Exercise:
Ingredients: shepherd's purse, some eggs, and appropriate amount of salt.
Steps:
1. Take the eggs out of the refrigerator and put them in cold water for cooling 1 min (to prevent the eggs from cracking after being cooked); Then turn on the high fire, close the lid and cook (turn to medium fire and add water after boiling) for 7 minutes, and turn off the fire 1 minute; Finally, take out the eggs and break them one by one.
2. Wash the shepherd's purse and blanch it in boiling water until the soup becomes discolored and thickened, and take out the blanched shepherd's purse.
3. Pour shepherd's purse juice into a bowl containing eggs, sprinkle some salt to taste, and let the eggs soak in the juice for a day (so that shepherd's purse juice can fully enter the broken eggshell) before taking out.
Advantages of eating boiled eggs with shepherd's purse:
1, shepherd's purse picked in early March of the lunar calendar has the best medicinal properties.
Shepherd's purse is found all year round in the south. If you are cooking, you can pick it whenever you want. However, if used as medicine, the shepherd's purse picked in early March of the lunar calendar has the best medicinal properties. Herb picking is the aura of heaven and earth, so no matter what kind of medicinal materials, we should pay attention to the picking time. If you don't pick it at the right time, the efficacy will be greatly reduced. Shepherd's purse in early March, the first batch of tender seedlings sent out in early spring just matured and stored the energy of the whole winter, while the weather in early spring was still cold and grew slowly, so it had the highest medicinal value. The things that come out from behind grow fast, and the medicinal value will decrease.
2. Prevention of spring epidemics
Shepherd's shepherd's purse is used as medicine, and its greatest function is to have a particularly strong effect of dispelling old cold, and its medicinal properties are very peaceful. Eating shepherd's purse on March 3 is to drive away the cold accumulated in winter. It is well said in Huangdi Neijing: "typhoid fever in winter will cause illness in spring." It means that it freezes in winter. If it is not solved in time, the cold will go deep into the human body and lurk down. In spring, the yang rises, and these latent cold attacks, extremely cold and heat, will cause flu and fever. This is also the reason why spring is particularly prone to various epidemics. Therefore, in order to prevent cold and heat stagnation in summer, shepherd's purse should be used in winter to prevent "epidemic febrile diseases" in spring, instead of using hot and hot drugs. Shepherd's purse is flat. It is unique in that it can not only dispel the old cold, but also dispel the blood heat, so that the latent cold will not turn into internal fire and maintain the balance between cold and heat in human body.