To remove colchicine from day lily:
1, which is easily dissolved in water, can reduce the colchicine content by 65% as long as it is soaked in 10% salt water/hour. ,
2. Because the toxic components of fresh day lily can be weakened or disappeared at a high temperature of 60 degrees, when eating, you should first blanch the fresh day lily with boiling water, then soak it in clear water for more than 2 hours, take it out and wash it with water before frying it, so that colchicine can be destroyed and it is safe to eat fresh day lily.
3. When eating dried products, consumers had better soak them in clean water or warm water for many times before eating, so as to remove residual harmful substances, such as sulfur dioxide.
Day lily, also known as day lily, is scientifically called day lily. Before carnation became a symbol of maternal love, there was also a kind of mother flower in China, that is, day lily, which is the bud of a perennial herb with fleshy roots, long and narrow leaves and yellow-green or orange flowers. The bud is called lily, and it can also be used as a vegetable for human consumption. It is delicious and tender, rich in nutrition, and rich in pollen, sugar, protein, vitamin C, calcium, fat, carotene, amino acids and so on. Day lily is sweet and cool in nature, and has the effects of stopping bleeding, diminishing inflammation, clearing away heat, promoting diuresis, promoting digestion, improving eyesight, calming the nerves, etc. It has curative effects on hematemesis, bloody stool, constipation, insomnia and galactorrhea, and can be used as a tonic after illness or postpartum. However, its leaf shape is flat and long, which is slightly toxic to underground stems and cannot be eaten directly.