Can bitter herb roots be eaten? What are the benefits of drinking soaked water?

There are many types of dandelions, and the whole plant is edible. Among them, the one with purple flowers is the most beneficial to human health. In the middle of the last century, many people ate bitter vegetables to fill their stomachs. Nowadays, bitter herb is considered both a wild vegetable and a medicinal herb, just like dandelion. Dandelion has significant therapeutic effects on diseases such as heart disease, hypertension, and cholecystitis. There are many ways to eat bitter herbs, among which the most frequently used method is to soak the roots in water.

1. Can the roots of bitter herbs be eaten?

The tenderer ones can be washed and eaten with sauce, or cooked into soup (bitter). The old ones can’t be eaten.

1. The root of dandelion is the root of the dicotyledonous medicinal plant dandelion of the Asteraceae family. The plant morphology is detailed in the "dandelion" article. It has the effects of dispersing blood stasis and stopping bleeding.

2. Annual or biennial herb. The root is conical, vertically extending, and has many fibrous roots. The stem is erect, solitary, 40-150 cm high, with longitudinal ridges or stripes, unbranched or with short umbel-like or racemose branches at the top, all stems and branches smooth and glabrous, or the upper inflorescence branches and peduncles covered with capitate, stalked glandular hairs.

2. How to make bitter vegetable roots delicious

1. Bitter vegetable egg pancake

Ingredients : bitter herbs, eggs.

practice :

(1) Pick and wash the bitter herbs, soak them for two hours, and change the water twice in between.

(2) Remove from the water, drain and chop into small pieces including the roots.

(3) Add eggs and appropriate amount of salt and mix well.

(4) Heat the pan with cold oil. When the oil is hot, pour in the egg liquid.

(5) Fry both sides until they turn yellow

(6) Cut the slices and serve.

2. Bitter greens, shredded radish and bean paste balls

Ingredients : soybean flour, bean dregs, radish, bitter herbs, seaweed, and salt.

practice :

(1) Rinse the bitter herbs repeatedly, blanch them, and soak them in cold water for 2 hours, changing the water in between.

(2) Take out the bitter vegetables, squeeze out the water and chop them for later use

(3) Grate the radish into shreds, blanch it in boiling water, then cool it down, squeeze out the water and chop it into small pieces for later use.

(4) Wash the moss, blanch it in cold water, squeeze out the water and chop it into small pieces for later use

(5) Add bean flour and bean dregs to the three dishes, and add a small amount of salt.

3. The efficacy of drinking bitter vegetable root soaked in water

The method of cooking bitter vegetable is to take 15 grams of dried bitter vegetable of Shurong, add 1000ml of water, and cook them in a pot (it is best not to use an iron pot, other pots will do). After the water boils, turn to low heat and cook for 3-5 minutes. After cooking, take 50ml-100ml of the soup to drink. You must add brown sugar before drinking. The brown sugar must be dark old brown sugar. Put the rest in the refrigerator or thermos for later use. When drinking the Shurong bitter vegetable soup again, you must add brown sugar after boiling. Normally cholecystitis can be cured in about one month, and gastritis, hypertension, cerebral thrombosis and heart disease can be cured in about two months by drinking it normally.