The functions and effects of spiny leaf vegetable

We humans need to eat food every day to replenish the energy in our bodies , especially green foods, of which spiny leaf vegetable is one. It is a vegetable with sharp leaves, but it is edible and can be used for cooking as well as making soup. Its effects and functions are also quite special, but most people don’t know about it. So what are the effects and functions of spiny leaf vegetable?

Cirsium setosum (scientific name: Cirsium setosum, Latin name: Cirsium setosum), a perennial herb; ovate or elliptical leaves are alternate, with thorns on the edges and white silky hairs on both sides; purple-red flowers bloom in summer, with terminal inflorescences. It is distributed in most parts of China, and is also distributed in Central Europe, Eastern Europe, eastern Russia, Japan, North Korea and other regions.

The basal leaves and middle stem leaves are elliptic , oblong or elliptic-oblanceolate, with obtuse or rounded apex, cuneate base, sometimes with very short petioles, usually without petioles, 7-15 cm long, 1.5-10 cm wide, the upper stem leaves gradually smaller, elliptic or lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, or all stems and leaves are undivided, with dense thorns on the leaf margins, and the thorns are close to the leaf margins. Or the leaf margins have thorns, the thorns at the top of the teeth vary in size, and the thorns are up to 3.5 mm long, or most of the stems and leaves are pinnately lobed or half-cleft or have coarse serrations on the edges, the lobes or serrations are oblique triangles, with obtuse apexes, longer thorns at the top of the teeth and lobes, and shorter and appressed thorns at the edges of the teeth and lobes. All stems and leaves are the same color on both sides, green or light color below, glabrous on both sides, rarely different colors on both sides, green and glabrous above, gray with sparse or dense hairs below, also rarely the same color on both sides, gray-green, thinly hairy on both sides.

Indications : vomiting blood due to heart heat. Use the leaves and roots of thistle, mash them and squeeze out the juice, take two small bowls each time. Bleeding from all seven orifices. Crush the juice of prickly thistle and mix it with wine to drink. Or you can grind dried thistle into powder and take it with cold water. Metrorrhagia and bleeding. Use one liter of large and small thistle roots and soak them in one dou of wine. After five days, take out the wine and drink an appropriate amount regularly. You can also boil thistle roots in wine or mash raw thistle into juice and drink it warm. Another recipe: Wash and chop the stems and leaves of thistle into small pieces, grind them into one bowl of juice, add one bowl of Rehmannia glutinosa juice and half a liang of Atractylodes macrocephala, boil them together until 50% of the juice is left, and drink it while warm. Excessive bleeding from miscarriage. Use 5 liang of roots and leaves of small thistle and motherwort, add two large bowls of water and boil it into one small bowl. Take it twice a day. The knife wound was bleeding profusely. Mash the thistle seedlings and apply them to the wound. Hot urine. Mash the roots of thistle and drink the juice. Carbuncle and malignant swelling. Use 4 liang of great thistle, 1 liang of frankincense, and 5 qian of alum, and grind them into powder. Take 2 qian each time, with wine. The effect is seen when sweating occurs.