Can pregnant women eat shepherd's purse?

Shepherd's purse has strong vitality and reproduces very quickly. The reason for saying this is that in rural areas, shepherd's purse is generally not eaten. It is just regarded as a wild vegetable, and often needs to be removed frequently to prevent it from robbing other vegetables of nutrients. Shepherd's purse itself is edible. Not only can it be eaten, it can also be used as medicine. It is very effective in reducing swelling and bleeding in urine. Shepherd's purse is so useful, can pregnant women eat shepherd's purse?

The answer is no, pregnant women cannot eat shepherd's purse.

Shepherd's purse, a Chinese medicinal herb. This product is the whole herb with roots of Shepherd's Purse, a plant of the Cruciferae family. Harvest from March to May, wash and dry. Functions and indications: harmonize the spleen, promote diuresis, stop bleeding, and improve eyesight. Treat dysentery, edema, gonorrhea, chyluria, hematemesis, bloody stool, metrorrhagia, menorrhagia, and red and painful eyes.

Annual or biennial herb, 30-40 cm tall, with a slender, white, straight, branched taproot. Stem erect, branched. The radicular leaves are clustered, deeply pinnately lobed, rarely entire, with triangular upper lobes; the cauline leaves are oblong or linear-lanceolate, almost linear at the apex, auricularial at the base, with notched or serrated edges, or nearly entire, with single or branched fine hairs on both sides, and sparsely covered with long white eyelashes on the edges. There are many flowers, forming axillary racemes at the top; the sepals are 4, green, spreading, ovate, truncate at the base, with white edges; the petals are obovate, clawed, 4, white, cross-shaped and open, about 2.5 mm in diameter; there are 6 stamens, 4 of which are strong, with green glands at the base; there is 1 pistil, the ovary is triangular-ovate, and the style is extremely short. The short silique is inverted triangular, glabrous, flat, slightly concave at the tip, 6-8 mm long, 5-6 mm wide, with a remnant style. There are about 20 to 25 seeds, arranged in 2 rows, small, obovate, and about 0.8 mm long. Flowering period is from March to May.

Distribution area:

It is distributed throughout the country and is cultivated in Jiangsu, Anhui and the suburbs of Shanghai. It is produced in most parts of the country.

Shepherd's purse contains an element that, when eaten by pregnant women, will stimulate the contraction of the uterus, resulting in lower body bleeding, which can lead to miscarriage in severe cases.

Shepherd's purse itself also has great side effects on the fetus. After the fetus absorbs shepherd's purse, fetal movement will occur. If the fetal movement is large, it may also cause accidents to the fetus.

Remember, no matter how shepherd's purse is cooked, pregnant women cannot eat it. Therefore, if you want to eat seasonal dishes at home in spring, do not eat them in front of pregnant women.