What is the meaning of eating shepherd’s purse and boiled eggs on March 3rd?

The origin of eating shepherd’s purse and boiled eggs on March 3rd. What is the meaning of eating shepherd’s purse and boiled eggs on March 3rd?

It is said to have been created by the famous doctor Hua Tuo. There is such a legend: During the Three Kingdoms period, the famous doctor Hua Tuo came to Miancheng to collect medicine. He encountered a heavy rain and went to an old man's home to take shelter from the rain. He saw that the old man was suffering from headaches, dizziness and other symptoms. Hua Tuo immediately diagnosed the old man, picked a handful of rice and vegetables from the old man's garden, and asked the old man to get juice and boil eggs to eat. After the old man ate it, his head suddenly stopped hurting and his eyesight no longer blurred. As a result, this method soon spread, and people began to cook eggs with rice and vegetables. Gradually, it became a custom in Miancheng, and became popular in the Jianghan Plain area. Since Hua Tuo treated the old man on the third day of March, there was a custom of "eating vegetables and boiled eggs on March 3, and you will not have headaches for a year", which continues to this day.

Folks believe that:

After eating it, it can ward off evil spirits, prevent messy monsters from approaching, and prevent headaches and fever in children. Adults can strengthen their bodies and keep their ears and eyes sharp after eating it. Here are two common ways to cook eggs with shepherd’s purse flowers.

Method:

Ingredients: shepherd's purse, some eggs, appropriate amount of salt

Steps:

1. Take the eggs out of the refrigerator, Place in cold water to cool for 1 minute (to prevent the eggs from cracking during cooking); then cook with closed lid (first medium to high heat, then boil the water, then medium to medium heat) for 7 minutes, turn off the heat for 1 minute; finally, take out the eggs and crack them one by one. broken.

2. Wash the shepherd's purse, put it into boiling water with the roots and cook until the soup changes color and becomes thicker and smells of shepherd's purse. Take out the cooked shepherd's purse.

3. Pour the shepherd's purse juice into the basin containing the eggs, sprinkle some salt to taste, let the eggs soak in the juice for a day (so that the shepherd's purse juice can fully penetrate into the broken egg shells) and then take it out for consumption.

Benefits of eating shepherd’s purse and boiled eggs:

1. Shepherd’s purse picked in early March of the lunar calendar has the best medicinal properties

Shepherd’s purse is available in the south in all seasons. If you want to cook and eat it, you can pick it at any time. But when used as medicine, shepherd's purse picked in early March of the lunar calendar has the best medicinal properties. When you collect herbs, you gather the aura of heaven and earth, so no matter what kind of herbs, you must pay attention to the picking time. If it is not collected at the right time, the efficacy of the medicine will be greatly reduced. The first batch of shepherd's purse sprouts in early March have just matured and have stored energy throughout the winter. In addition, the weather in early spring is relatively cold and the growth is slow, so it has the highest medicinal value. The ones that come out later will grow faster and their medicinal value will decrease.

2. Prevent spring epidemics

The biggest effect of shepherd's purse is that it has a particularly strong effect in dispelling cold, and its medicinal properties are very mild. Eating shepherd's purse on March 3rd is to get rid of the cold accumulated in winter. "The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic" says it well: "If you are injured by cold in winter, you will be sick by warmth in spring." This means that if you are cold in winter, if it is not resolved in time, the cold will penetrate deep into the human body and lurk. In spring, when the Yang Qi rises, the latent cold air attacks, and extreme cold generates heat, which can cause flu and fever. This is also the reason why various epidemic diseases are particularly prone to occur in spring. Therefore, in order to prevent the accumulation of cold and heat in winter, you cannot use spicy and hot medicines in spring, but use shepherd's purse to prevent "warm diseases" in spring. Shepherd's purse is flat. What's special about it is that it can remove both old cold and blood heat, preventing latent cold from turning into internal fire and maintaining the body's balance of cold and heat.