Well processed spring herbs help people be full of energy.

From olden times the Korean people with a good knowledge of wild edible herbs have collected aster, wormwood, pickpurse, aralia shoots and other edible herbs good for health and cooked various dishes with them for their dietary life.

Aster activates blood circulation, which is good for lungs and bronchus. It is efficacious for the removal of phlegm and the treatment of dry cough, asthma, throat diseases and so on.

The wormwood is potent for the cure of digestive impediment, illness resulting from hand, foot and abdomen chill and other women's diseases.

The cake made of rice flour and wormwood paste with peculiar fragrance and taste is one of the rare dishes in spring.

The pickpurse promotes the digestive function and is good for hypertension. In particular, it is popular among the people as one of the foodstuff protecting the human body from the yellow dust phenomena frequent to be seen in spring.

The aralia shoots which contains various nutritive elements and saponin lowers sugar content of the blood. It is good for the treatment of diabetes, nephropathy and gastrointestinal disorder and for the recovery from fatigue. To take it for a long time can prevent the gastric cancer.

These days families of the DPRK widely use spring edible herb dishes in their dietary life.