This summer I am eating a wild vegetable called Ma Chi Cai in Chinese, also called longevity vegetable or wu Xing vegetable (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Xing). Wu Xing is a basic term and important theory in Chinese medicine, which is also applied to everything.
Five basic colors are one of the Wu Xing; this Ma Chi Cai is the only plant on the earth that has all five of them. It’s seeds are black, it’s roots are white, the leaves are green, the stems are red and its flowers are yellow. Applying Wu Xing to Chinese medicine, black goes to the kidneys, white to the lungs, green to the liver, red to the heart and yellow goes to the spleen. So this is the only vegetable that nourishes all our five important organs. It’s a popular wild vegetable in China.
Now you know how nature gives us a longevity vegetable. Plus it’s most easy grow – it’s everywhere, hard to killed in fact! I pick it up every morning in front of my spa , so I appreciate that nature gived me a free garden and I only need to harvest without any work!
Here is the Ma Chi Cai from my natural Garden:
