Yu Qian is the seed of elm, so it is named because it is round and thin, like a coin, and because it is a homonym of "spare money", so there is a saying that "you can have" spare money "after eating Yu Qian. When the spring breeze blows the first ray of green, the golden elm is covered with strings of branches, and people will pick it while it is fresh and tender to make various delicious dishes.

Medicinal value of elm

Indications: invigorating spleen and calming nerves, clearing away heart fire, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, killing insects and reducing swelling. Indications: insomnia, loss of appetite, leukorrhagia, dysuria, edema, infantile malnutrition, burns, sores and tinea.

1. Jianwei: Elm fruit contains acidic substances such as nicotinic acid and ascorbic acid. At the same time, it also contains a lot of inorganic salts, which can strengthen the spleen and stomach and treat anorexia.

2. Calm the nerves: Elm fruit contains a lot of water, nicotinic acid, ascorbic acid and inorganic salts, among which calcium and phosphorus are rich, which has the function of clearing away heat and calming the nerves and can treat neurasthenia and insomnia.

3. Insecticidal detumescence: Nicotinic acid and seed oil in elm fruit have the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, killing insects and detumescence, and can kill a variety of human parasites. At the same time, Ulmus pumila can also reduce swelling through urination.

4. Cough relieving and phlegm resolving: Euryale ferox enters the lung meridian, which can clear lung heat and reduce lung qi. Yuqian seed oil has the functions of moistening lung, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, and can be used to treat cough with thick phlegm.