As the saying goes: spring water chestnut flower wearing, and Xiu Fanhua. Shepherd's purse delicious and has a high nutritional value, its vitamin C content than the Chinese cabbage is 2.5 times higher, the content of vitamin B2 is higher than that of potherb mustard, ranking the vegetable, the content of chlorophyll and cellulose also quite rich. Common folk shepherd's purse make spring rolls, dumplings, boiled eggs, water, fried cooking etc., not only taste delicious, but also to dizziness, palpitation, indigestion, eyes dim, nosebleeds, systemic edema and other diseases have the prevention and the role of adjuvant therapy.

　　中医认为，荠菜，味甘、性平，有健脾益胃、利水消肿、止血、明目的功能，可治疗痢疾、水肿、淋病、乳糜尿、吐血、便血、血崩、月经过多、目赤肿痛等病。古书上也有把用荠菜加米粉煮成的荠菜糊誉为“百岁羹”的记载，民间还把荠菜作为延年益寿的保健品。

　　Traditional Chinese medicine thinks, shepherd's purse, sweet, flat, with spleen and stomach, functional benefits of water swelling, bleeding, eyesight, treatment of diarrhea, edema, gonorrhea and chyluria, hematemesis, hematochezia, vaginal bleeding, menstrual, red eyes and throat and other disease. Books also have a with shepherd's purse with rice boiled in shepherd's purse paste known as "100 soup" records, folk is the shepherd's purse as longevity and health care products.

　　比如，用荠菜60克加红、白糖适量，水煎服，治疗痢疾效果明显。荠菜50克、仙鹤草50克，水煎服，治疗内伤出血、产后流血、崩漏及月经过多奏效迅速。荠菜、白茅根等量煎水代茶，能预防小儿麻疹，有临床报道称，用荠菜预防麻疹的总有效率可高达95.4%以上。