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The
medicinal value of the sand mustard:
Sand mustard contains protein, fat,
carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. It is good for
food digestion, pain relief, detoxification and
clearing away the lung-heat. The leaves can be used
as dealcoholic medicine to help drunken people awake
and the roots can help clear away the lung-heat and
cure tracheitis patients.
【Prescription】
①to
treat flatulence and indigestion: Take 100g fresh sand
mustards (or 50g dry sand mustards) that are boiled in
water, twice a day. (Medicinal plants in desert areas in
China)
②to
treat indigestion and food poisoning: Take the same mount of
fine grindings of sand mustards, pepperweed seeds, Chinese
tamarisks, medicine terminalia fruits, and broadleaf vetch
herbs after being boiled in water, two or three times a day.
Take 5g or 5.5g fine grindings every time. (Chinese
herbal medicine in Inner Mongolia) |
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The edible
value of the sand mustard:
Sand mustard with high nutritional and
medicinal value contains rich protein, cellulose and many
vitamins like vitamin C.
It is a popular vegetable for people living at Shajia town
and desert area which can be cooked raw or fried, dried or
bloated before the flowers blooming.
The fresh sand mustard is easy to eat after bloating in
water for a short time. It tastes good and refreshing by
being fried and braised. It is a good idea to cook it raw or
make it a soup.
Recipe:Sand
mustard leaves salad
一、Materials:
1. Ingredients: 500 grams of sand mustard leaves. 2. Spices:
salt, monosodium glutamate, vinegar, sesame oil.
二、methods:Make
the sand mustard leaves tidy and then boil them in hot water
for a while. Remove the water before cutting them into
sections. Put the sections in plate and mix them with salt,
monosodium glutamate, vinegar and sesame oil.
The sand mustard are good for food digestion, pain relief,
detoxification and clearing away the lung-heat |
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The Fodder Value of
the Sand Mustard:
The sand mustards are good fodder for cows, sheep,
camels and pigs. The green mustard contains more than 80 percent of
water, with high content of crude protein, non-fiber carbohydrates
and ash content, small content of crude fiber. According to the
files, we used empirical formula to study Ningxia grassland and we
found that there are digestible dry matters like crude protein for
65.84g, digestible energy for 9.2MJ,
metabolizable energy for 7.91MJ
in every kilogram of sand mustard. So the sand mustard belongs to
forage plants of medium quality. |
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Sand Mustard
Binding Sand:
My hometown, Taole town Pingluo County in Ningxia, is a
harsh region with serious land desertification. Based on the
actual situation, Taole Spring Trade Corporation take
advantage of the sandy wild plants in order to alter the
environment and develop the economy. With some investigation
and research experience, they found that sandy plants like
sand mustard have a long history in western sand region.
Sand mustard is a kind of
biennial plant with high yield that can bind sand. It also
has other names like sand radish, sand cabbage. It is easy
to plant sand mustard and it mostly grows on sandy region
and sand dunes. |
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