Stir-fried Malan Tou

Nanjing people especially love to eat grass, and there is even a saying that "Nanjing people don't eat well, but one bite of rice and one bite of grass." In this season, wild vegetables are the most popular dishes on the Nanjing market, such as reed wormwood, shepherd's purse, malantou, and chrysanthemum brains. Why Nanjing people love to eat wild vegetables more than home vegetables? Experts analyze that, first, compared with home vegetables, wild vegetables have a unique flavor and aroma. In addition, most of the wild vegetables that Nanjing people love have medicinal value, such as Nanjing people. The favorite chrysanthemum leaves, malantou, etc. have the effect of cooling and detoxification.
Malantou is also known as Malan, red stem, chicken intestines, field chrysanthemum, purple chrysanthemum, crabgrass, etc. It is a perennial herb belonging to the genus Malan of the Compositae. Malantou was originally a wild species. It was born on roadsides, fields, and hillsides. It is distributed in most parts of the country. There are two kinds of red-stemmed and green-stemmed Malantou, both of which are edible. The medicine is preferably red-stemmed Malanto. Due to the combination of Cold Food Festival and Qingming Festival, some places still retain the habit of eating cold food on Qingming Festival. When eating Malan first-class fresh vegetables in Zhejiang, the word "green" is used to match the "green" of "qingming".
Malan: The tender stems are picked in spring and summer and washed for fresh use; in summer and autumn, the whole grass is picked and washed for fresh use or dried in the sun. The whole herb or root is used as medicine. The young shoots and leaves can be eaten as a nutritious and health-care vegetable. It can be stir-fried, cold-boiled or made into soup, with rich flavor and rich nutrition. The habit of eating Malan in spring has long existed in various parts of our country.
Malantou is suitable for the crowd: normal people can eat it; but pregnant women take it with caution.
Therapeutic effects of Malantou:
Malantou is pungent in taste and cool in nature; it belongs to the liver, stomach and lung meridians;
It has the effects of cooling blood to stop bleeding, clearing away heat and removing dampness, detoxification and swelling;
Indications of vomiting blood, epistaxis, uterine bleeding, purpura, traumatic bleeding, jaundice, diarrhea, edema, diarrhea, cold, cough, sore throat, carbuncle, hemorrhoids, erysipelas, malnutrition. "