What is the bitter vegetable that Xiaoman eats?

Amaranthus komarovii is a kind of herb.

Bitter grass is a perennial herb, distributed in the north and south of China, so it is called differently in different places. Folk commonly known as bitter vegetables, because of its sweet taste with a little bitterness, hence the name. But some places are called "celery", "bitter pod", "gamma", "old stork" and "no coriander". Because of its snake-shaped leaves, Shandong is also called "snake insect seedling". Medically, it is called Patrinia herb, and Li Shizhen even calls it "Tianxiang herb". The record in Compendium of Materia Medica is: (Bitter vegetables) take it for a long time, feel at ease and benefit qi, and be fit and age-resistant, which shows that his evaluation of Bitter vegetables is quite high.

The weather is getting hotter in Xiaoman solar terms, and many places have the custom of eating hard food in Xiaoman solar terms. Xiaoman solar term is easy to get wet skin disease. Therefore, the diet should be light and vegetarian, and you can often eat foods that clear away heat and promote diuresis, and you can eat bitter vegetables.

Xiaoman is one of the 24 solar terms in a year and the second solar term after summer. The implication is that the seeds of crops are full, but they are not fully mature, especially the wheat in the Yellow River valley. At this time, the ears of wheat are full and are about to enter maturity, and early rice in some places in the south is gradually maturing.