空心菜在《本草纲目》中和生物《辞海》中记载为蕹菜,因蕹菜的茎秆中空也叫空心菜或藤菜,蕹菜分类为旋花科,一年生草本植物。据有关资料记载,空心菜的营养成分居叶菜之首,并且有广泛的防病治病的医疗保健作用。 空心菜原产我国南方和中南地区,是南方人们的四季主要青菜。近些年来,北方人也把空心菜引到本地种植,但为数仍然很少,没有被广大的城乡人民所认识,特别对它的营养价值和药用保健价值不了解, The spinach is recorded as a common vegetables in “Compendium of Materia Medica” and biological “Cihai” because the hollow stems of the vegetables are also called as spinach or rattan. The common vegetables are classified as convolvuliaceae and annual herbs. According to the information records, the nutritional content of spinach leaves in the first, and there is a wide range of preventive health care role. The origin of Chinese cabbage is southern China and south-central China. It is the main vegetable of four seasons in south China. In recent years, the northerners have also brought the cabbage to local cultivation, but the number is still small and not recognized by the majority of urban and rural people, especially their nutritional value and medicinal health value,