Before and after the Qingming Festival, dots of sagebrush appeared in the fields, tender and tender, looking like they were poking their heads. The fluffy and tender grass, with downy green leaves on the back, is covered with sparkling dewdrops. In the spring breeze, they stretch their bodies and wave to us frequently.
"Famous Doctors" records: "It is said that the leaves are shaped like mouse ears, and have white hairs covering them." Because of this, the leaves of Curcuma sinensis are smaller, obovate or obovate. It is in the shape of a spoon that is rolled inward and is covered with white cotton wool on both the front and back sides. It is soft and fleshy, like a mouse ear. Its top branch is a dense corymb inflorescence with yellow flowers. Therefore, it is also described as having "leaves like mouse ears and flowers blooming like a song", so it is named "squirrel grass". Li Shizhen said that "there are many in the wilderness, with seedlings growing in February and soft stems and leaves." Traditional Chinese medicine believes that graminium is sweet in taste and neutral in nature. It can relieve coughs and expectorants, relieve asthma, and dispel rheumatism. It can be used for colds and coughs, bronchitis, asthma, hypertension, favism, rheumatism, waist and leg pain, phlegm and asthma, and rheumatic arthralgia. Waiting for treatment. External use of sage herb can also treat bruises, bites from poisonous snakes, etc.
Sagewort can be used in dishes. It is a delicious wild vegetable that is used both as medicine and food. As a food custom, the earliest record can be found in the "Jingchu Sui Shi Ji" compiled by Zong Mao, a Liang man in the Southern Dynasty: "On that day (the third day of March), we took the juice of rat squash and made a soup with honey and powder. It was called dragon tongue soup. "The scent of rat grass has a unique fragrance. Pi Rixiu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, vividly described it in a poem: "When you pick it deeply, you can see the liquid of cow's lips, and when you pinch it carefully, you can smell the fragrance of rat ears." "Compendium of Materia Medica" records its nicknames, including "Miqu", "Myotis" and "Rongmu". "Rongmu" is related to the white hairs on its body. The name "rice koji", according to Li Shizhen, is because its flowers are yellow like rice koji and can be eaten with rice noodles. "Jingchu Years of Life" records: "On March 3rd, take the juice of rat grass, add honey, and mix it with flour to make rice cakes. Eating them can suppress the seasonal qi."
Young rats Qucao can be used to make cakes, but the smell is much stronger. When I was a child, every year before the Qingming Festival, there were sage grass growing in fields, by streams, on mountain tops, wherever there seemed to be land. My mother liked to carry a basket and go to the fields to pick sage grass. Bend down and close to the ground, you can see the sagebrush intoxicating in the spring breeze, and you can also hear their cheerful singing. He stretched out his hand and pinched it, and what he held in his hand was the soft "body" of sage grass.
My mother picked the young leaves of the sage. Only the flower core and a few green leaves were picked from the sage, washed and boiled, then crushed, pounded into juice, and mixed with cornmeal to make cakes. , wrap the prepared crispy stuffing into it, and steam it in a steamer, so it is called "rat cake". The trace amounts of alkaloids it contains also present a natural yellow-green color, which is very unique and as green as emerald. We took the "rat cake" to school and took a big bite. It was fragrant, glutinous and delicious, with soft noodles and strong texture, as if we had eaten the whole spring.
Spring is the season for tasting wild vegetables. In addition to sage, there are also toon, shepherd's purse and other wild vegetables. In short, spring is incomplete without wild vegetables. The green mouse song is affectionate, it is the footsteps of the spring breeze, and it is also a sunny and lyrical ditty.
Source: "China Traditional Chinese Medicine Newspaper Official Account"