Day lily, also known as flower for treating anxiety, flower for treating anxiety, real tendon vegetable, golden cabbage, ginseng and green onion root, is called day lily. In ancient China, "Xuanting" and "Xuantang" were often used as surrogate mothers, so yellow flowers were called "mother flowers". Because of its golden color and slender shape, it is also called "Jin Baihe". It was also called "worry-free girl" in ancient times. The Book of Songs records that there was a woman in ancient times who planted day lilies in the North Hall of her home because of her husband's expedition to get rid of her troubles and forget her busyness. Since then, the world has called her a "worry-free girl".

Day lily is rich in nutrients, including pollen, sugar, protein, vitamin C, calcium, fat, carotene, amino acids and other essential nutrients, and its carotene content is even several times higher than that of tomatoes. Day lily is sweet and cool, and has the effects of stopping bleeding, diminishing inflammation, clearing away heat, promoting diuresis, promoting digestion, improving eyesight and calming the nerves. It has therapeutic effect on hematemesis, bloody stool, constipation, insomnia and galactorrhea, and can be used as a tonic after illness or postpartum. Day lily is often cooked with vegetarian dishes such as black fungus, and can also be made into soup or fried with eggs, chicken and meat, which is rich in nutrition.

1. Brain strengthening and anti-aging

Day lily has a good brain-strengthening and anti-aging effect, because it is rich in lecithin, which is a component of many cells in the body, especially brain cells, and plays an important role in enhancing and improving brain function. At the same time, it can clear the deposits in arteries, and has special effects on symptoms such as inattention, memory loss and cerebral artery occlusion, so people call it "brain-nourishing dish".

2. Skin beauty

Regular consumption of day lily can also moisturize the skin, enhance the toughness and elasticity of the skin, make the skin tender, smooth and soft, reduce wrinkles, fade spots and add beauty. Day lily also has antibacterial and immune functions, moderate and mild anti-inflammatory and detoxification effects, and has a certain role in preventing infection.

bring down the blood pressure

According to another study, day lily can significantly reduce the serum cholesterol content, which is beneficial to the rehabilitation of patients with hypertension and can be used as a health care vegetable for patients with hypertension.

4. Prevention and treatment of intestinal cancer

Daylily also contains effective components that can inhibit the growth of cancer cells, and rich crude fiber can promote the excretion of feces, so it can be used as food for preventing and treating intestinal cancer.

Day lily is often cooked with vegetarian dishes such as black fungus, and can also be made into soup or fried with eggs, chicken and meat, which is rich in nutrition.

However, fresh day lily contains a kind of colchicine, which is non-toxic, but it is very toxic when it is oxidized into colchicine in the body after being absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract, causing nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, thirst, abdominal distension and other symptoms, and in severe cases, bloody stool, hematuria or anuria. Eating 3-20 mg can kill you. Therefore, when eating fresh products, don't eat more every time. The poison is in the pollen.

Because the toxic components of fresh day lily will be weakened or eliminated at the high temperature of 60℃, when eating, you should first blanch the fresh day lily with boiling water, then soak it in clear water for more than 2 hours (water needs to be changed once in the middle), then take it out and wash it with clear water before frying. When frying, the fire should be large and the heating should be thorough, so that colchicine can be destroyed and it is safe to eat fresh daylily. Also, pinch off the small tail at the lower end of the day lily before frying, and it is best to pull out the ovary in the middle together and water it.

Cold day lily

Materials:

Day lily, cucumber, carrot, garlic and ginger.

Exercise:

(1) Soak the day lily in water for about half an hour.

(2) Wash cucumber, carrot, ginger and garlic for later use, and shred cucumber and carrot.

(3) Add a proper amount of water to the pot to boil, add a small amount of oil, and put the day lily into boiling water to cook for about 4 or 5 minutes.

(4) Take out the cooked day lily and put it into the prepared cold water.

(5) Boil carrots in boiling water for 3-4 minutes in the same way, then take them out and put them in prepared cold boiling water.

(6) Add a little oil, heat and saute shredded ginger and garlic.

(7) Stir-fry raw oil with oil.

(8) Turn down the fire and pour in the soy sauce.

(9) Take out the cool daylily and pour it into the pot. Add the carrots and cucumbers cooked before, and stir quickly and evenly.

(10) Finally, add sesame oil and white vinegar and mix well. Other ingredients can be appropriately added according to different people.

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