In Chinese medicine is both food and medicine fishy grass all over the south, as long as in the shade is very common, where there is more than fishy grass more raw, easier to find, picked a crop as long as a rain and another crop of weeds? We eat fishy grass, like the most can maintain the original smell of cold method, as long as some seasonings, such as vinegar, salt, sugar, more sophisticated mixed with some sesame oil, minced garlic, Huaiyang dry shreds or something, is a delicious medicinal food and source of delicacies. In recent years, in some stores, there are also vacuum-packed bags of fishy herb food. Fishy grass is an important Chinese herbal medicine, “fishy grass” into the medicine has the function of clearing heat and detoxification, eliminating carbuncles and pus, diuretic and laxative, often used with rhizome, origanum, guajia, etc. for the treatment of lung abscess, phlegm heat and cough. When used for heat sores, it can be used with wild chrysanthemum, dandelion, honeysuckle, or pounded with the fresh product alone for external application; if the skin is itchy, mosquito bites, boils, redness, swelling and itching, it can also be used alone to make an application and applied externally to the affected area; when used for damp heat in the bladder, dripping and astringent pain in the urine, it is often used with Che Qian Zi, Bai Mao Root and Hai Jin Sha. In fact, there is a story about eating fishy grass. Legend has it that in the first year of Goujian’s return, the State of Yue ran into a rare drought year and the people had no food to eat. In order to tide over the difficulties with the people, Gou践 crossed the mountains to look for edible wild vegetables. He finally found a kind of edible wild greens, and it was particularly strong in growing, always cut and grown. So, the whole state of Yue relied on this small wild vegetable to get through the difficulties. The wild vegetable that saved the people of Yue at that time was named “fishy grass” by Goujian because of its fishy smell. According to the “Dian Nan Ben Cao”: fishy grass for coughing with pus and blood from lung canker, fishy phlegm, large intestine heat poisoning, hemorrhoids. Fishy grass is mainly used clinically for cough at the beginning, yellow and thick sputum, pneumonia, lung abscess, pediatric diarrhea, etc. In addition to respiratory tract inflammation, fishy grass is also effective in treating dermatological disorders and other acute inflammatory diseases, such as acute conjunctivitis, blepharitis, dermatitis, urinary tract infections, etc. Folk fishy grass prescriptions include: treatment of mumps: fresh fishy grass in appropriate amounts, pounded and applied externally to the affected area, fixed with adhesive bandages, twice a day. Treatment of tonsillitis, pharyngitis: fresh fishy grass infusion as tea, or cooking fried as a vegetable. Lung abscess: fresh grass washed and fried as a vegetable to eat, or 50 grams of fishy grass, 12 grams of orris, 6 grams of licorice, decoction in water. Acute bronchitis, tuberculosis, cough with blood in the sputum: use 30 grams of fishy grass, 6 grams of licorice, 30 grams of plantain, decoction in water. A variety of skin diseases: use fresh fishy grass pounding juice to apply, or decoction of juice taken orally, both have the effect of clearing heat and swelling, removing prickly heat and relieving itching. Decoction of the whole herb is used to treat aspergillosis and tinea pedis. Canker boils, furuncles and swellings (whether broken or unbroken): Wrap fresh fishy grass in wet paper, simmer it in ash fire, take it out, pound it and apply it to the affected area. Summer is the season of poisonous snake, encounter poisonous snake bite: in addition to snake venom serum injection, can be taken fishy grass, salt skin wood root, yellow leaf root, feiyang grass, decoction of water external wash poisonous snake bite. It should be noted that when consumed, fishy grass can only eat white roots and leaves, and it is best to soak in cold water to eliminate the odor when consumed. 1, cold fishy grass: Ingredients: 200 grams of fishy grass, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, chicken essence, red oil, dried chili pepper appropriate amount. Method: pinch off the old roots and whiskers of fishy grass, leaving the tender white roots and leaves, wash several times with water, wash the sediment, soak in cold water for 10 minutes, take out and control the water; cut the dried chili pepper into segments, put it into warm oil and fry until crispy and fragrant, pour it into a bowl together with the oil; put the fishy grass into a bowl, put salt, soy sauce, sugar, vinegar, chicken essence, red oil, fried chili oil and mix well, ready to eat. Effects: Clearing heat and detoxifying, diuretic and laxative; suitable for those with phlegm-heat and asthmatic cough, sore throat, dampness and heat such as dripping urine. Hot dampness and moisten toxicity, eliminate carbuncles and drain pus, those who are not clean. 2, fishy grass scrambled eggs: Ingredients: 150 grams of fishy grass, 4 eggs, green onions, oil, salt a little. Method: Stir the eggs; add a little oil to the pot and heat, stirring onion, put fresh fishy grass stir-fry, add salt, and then pour the eggs together stir-fry cooked that is. Effects: Clearing heat and detoxifying, nourishing Yin and moistening the lungs; a complementary dietary treatment for pneumonia, lung abscess, carbuncle, bleeding from deficiency labor, red eyes, dysentery, etc.