Lily, which is often eaten, is a spherical bulb (bulb) of perennial herb lily, which is usually dug in autumn. Remove the overground part, wash the soil and peel off the old residual scales on the outer layer, and you can eat or use it as medicine.
There are many kinds of lilies, including more than 100 in the world and more than 60 in China. Lanzhou Lily in Gansu, Yixing Lily, Du Lily and Xuan Lily in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui, as well as Lily with Hundred Flowers and Lily with Fine Leaves cultivated all over the country, are all excellent varieties in China. Lily is good because it is big, thick, solid and full of powder. As far as eating and dietotherapy are concerned, Lanzhou lily petals are very popular because of their large meat, white color and sweet taste. As far as drug therapy is concerned, lilies produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui are small and slightly bitter, which is used by Chinese medicine.
Lily is mostly used to treat "lily disease"
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that lily is sweet, slightly bitter, cold in nature, warm but not dry, and can nourish yin and promote fluid production, moisten lung and remove dryness, clear heart and soothe the nerves, and regulate defecation. It is suitable for chronic cough, bloody expectoration, fatigue, palpitation, insomnia, dreaminess, trance and other symptoms caused by tracheitis and tuberculosis, as well as dysuria.
When Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage, treated "lily disease", he took lily as the monarch medicine and made a series of prescriptions, such as Lily Anemarrhena Decoction, Lily Dihuang Decoction and Lily Chicken Inner Decoction. Lily disease is similar to hysteria, neurasthenia or deficiency-heat syndrome in some later stages of fever in modern medicine. Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica states its name: "The root of lily is composed of many petals. Or the cloud specializes in' lily disease', so the name is also passed. "
Lily medicinal diet can be used in autumn to moisten dryness and prevent haze.
Lily has a good effect of moistening lung and removing dryness, which is most suitable for autumn with dry climate. Symptoms such as dry mouth and throat, cough with little phlegm, dry stool, short and red urine and dry skin caused by "autumn dryness" can be applied. Lily also has a good effect of clearing the heart and calming the nerves, and can also be used to treat insomnia and dreaminess.
Lily can be eaten alone or together with other ingredients and herbs. Lily medicinal diet can be stewed soup, boiled porridge, steamed and stir-fried, such as lily turtle soup, lily white duck soup, lily lotus seed porridge, lily mung bean porridge, honey steamed lily, celery fried lily, pork fried lily and so on. At the same time, it has the effects of health care and adjuvant treatment of diseases.
Lily lotus jujube porridge
Raw materials: fresh lily 40g (dried product halved), lotus seed 30g (including lotus plumule), jujube 10, roasted licorice 5g, and japonica rice 60g.
How to make and eat lotus seeds and jujube soaked in warm water, licorice wrapped in gauze and cooked together. Boil the lotus seeds until they are half cooked, take out the gauze bag and discard them. Then add jujube and japonica rice to boil, add lily to boil over low heat, and serve (dry lily should be soaked in warm water with lotus seeds and jujube before cooking). Porridge can be seasoned with white sugar. Take it in the morning and evening and eat it warm.
Applicable people are suitable for treating perimenopausal syndrome, hysteria, neurasthenia, etc. , leading to mental disorder, palpitation, trance, easy mood swings, dizziness, tinnitus, insomnia and dreaminess.
Lily and white duck soup
The raw materials are half a white duck (about 750g), 20g of dried lily (40g if fresh), Glehnia littoralis10g, Lycium barbarum, Chinese date, and appropriate seasonings such as ginger, onion, yellow wine, salt and pepper.
How to make and eat: Wash the white duck, cut into pieces, blanch with boiling water, and remove blood stains. Wash other ingredients, put them into gauze bags and tie them tightly. Put duck pieces, gauze bags and appropriate amount of ginger, onion, yellow wine and clear soup (or clear water) into a saucepan, boil and stew with low fire for about 1 hour. Take out the gauze bag and add refined salt and pepper to taste according to personal taste. Eat with meals, eat meat and drink soup.
Applicable people are suitable for people suffering from "autumn dryness" or yin deficiency, with symptoms such as dry throat, bitter taste, dry cough with little phlegm, hemoptysis, dry stool, upset and insomnia. It can be used for treating symptoms such as dry expectoration, scanty blood, hot flashes and night sweats caused by tracheitis and pulmonary tuberculosis.
Babao stuffed lily
Ingredients: 50g fresh lily, sweet almond (non-medicinal bitter almond) 15g, walnut kernel, raisin, jujube (pitted), preserved wax gourd, hawthorn cake, green plum, rose or osmanthus sugar, and a little white sugar.
How to make and eat: lily petals are broken and other ingredients are diced. First put other ingredients at the bottom of the bowl to make a pattern, and then put the broken lily near the edge of the bowl. Seal with wet linen paper, steam in a cage for 40 minutes, take it out and turn it over. Put the frying spoon on the fire, add 200 ml of water, add rose or sweet-scented osmanthus sugar and white sugar, stir the thick juice and pour it on the lily on the plate. Eat with meals.
Applicable people are suitable for treating cough due to lung dryness due to yin deficiency, asthma due to deficiency and constipation due to intestinal dryness due to yin deficiency. It can also be used to treat emaciation, mental fatigue, dry cough and asthma, dry mouth and thirst, dry stool, loss of appetite, restless night sleep and other symptoms caused by physical weakness, deficiency of both qi and blood, and deficiency of yin and body fluid in the late stage of fever.
Lily soup for removing haze
Raw materials: 25g dried lily (double fresh), 3g Fritillaria powder, dried tangerine peel 1 tablet, tremella fuciformis 10g, autumn pear 100g, crystal sugar or honey.
How to make and eat fresh lily slices, pear slices with skin and tremella soaked in warm water and shredded? Wash the rest except Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae powder, put it in a casserole and add water. After boiling, slow fire 1 hour as usual, remove tangerine peel, and add Fritillaria cirrhosa powder, crystal sugar or honey to melt. Daily consumption.
Applicable people are suitable for the aftercare of symptoms such as adverse nasal cavity and throat, poor breathing, chest tightness, itchy throat and cough caused by dust or smoke stimulation in foggy days.
At present, there are also canned lily in syrup, lily eight-treasure porridge, lily powder for breakfast, baked dried lily and other convenient leisure foods on the market, which are favored by the public. However, people suffering from cold lily, cough due to wind-cold, bleeding due to deficiency of cold, and deficiency of spleen and stomach should use lily with caution or avoid eating it.
Ornamental lilies are inedible.
Lily can be divided into edible, medicinal and ornamental varieties. Lily used for viewing, such as Bai Baihe, pink lily, rhubarb lily, etc. , bright in color and fragrant in smell, but only for viewing, and its flowers and bulbs are inedible. In addition, the smell of ornamental lilies such as perfume lilies should not be heard for a long time. Especially when sleeping, it is not suitable for the bedroom.