(Nihuazi Materia Medica)

Originally from the flower buds or flowers of Plantago Ovata, family Bashoaceae. For details, see Plantain Root.

The taste is sweet, slightly pungent and cool.

①"Yunnan Materia Medica": "Warm in nature, sour and salty in taste."

② "Jiangxi Herbal Medicine": "Cool in nature, bland in flavor."

③Guizhou Herbal Medicine: "Cold in nature, sweet and slightly pungent in flavor."

Functions and Indications: Resolving phlegm and softening hardness, calming the liver, harmonizing blood stasis, and promoting menstruation. It is used to treat fullness and distension of the chest and diaphragm, plagued pain in the epigastrium and abdomen, acid swallowing and regurgitation, vomiting phlegm and saliva, dizziness of the head and eyes, heartache and anxiety, and women's menstrual dysfunction.

1) Rihuazi Materia Medica: "Treating heart paralyzing pain."

②"Yunnan Materia Medica": "Warming the stomach, dispersing phlegm, softening the firmament. Cure cold phlegm in the stomach, vomiting and nausea, swallowing acid and spitting acid."

③ "Classification of herbs and medicinal properties": "treatment of dizziness, gas pain, blood dispersal."

④《Lingnan Caiyao Lu》："To cure red and white diarrhea, and can open the menstruation."

Use and dosage Internal use: decoction, 2 to 3 qian; or burnt and stored in powder.

Selected prescription ① cure heart paralyzing pain: banana flower burnt and stored, research, salt soup point to take two money. ("Rihua Zi Materia Medica")

② treatment of regurgitation and vomiting er dietary acid phlegm, stomach, abdominal pain, chest and diaphragm fullness: banana flowers two money. Decoction of water, point of water wine. Avoid fish, sheep, cold, eggs, garlic. ("Diannan Materia Medica")

3 treatment of anxiety: banana flower one. Boiled pig heart food. ("Hunan Drugs")

4 treatment of tuberculosis: plantain flowers two two, pig lungs half a catty. Stewed in water, serve soup and eat lungs, one dose a day. ("Jiangxi Herbal Medicine")

5 angina: plantain flowers half a catty, a pig heart. Water stew. ("Jiangxi Herbal Medicine")

6 cure stomach pain: plantain flowers, pepper tree on the parasitic tea each five money. Simmering water to take, twice a day. (Guizhou Herbal Medicine)

Fried plantain

All of them use the young and tender petals as raw materials. Processing first banana flowers washed and cut fine with a little salt, and hand kneaded and squeezed the juice. Vegetarian fried, add some green chili powder and folk with soybean residue made of edamame can be fried in oil. If cooking meat fried banana flowers, should be material meat (pork or dog meat, dog meat is better) clean, filtered water and chopped into minced meat, first in the ginger, garlic fried frying pan stir-fried to seven or eight mature and then add the salted and squeezed out of astringent plantain flowers and salt, monosodium glutamate (MSG), stir-fried until the banana flowers are ripe, it is loaded with plates for food. This dish is delicious, no Wang greasy feeling, unique features, is the Dai, Hani small famous flavor snacks.

Bao Steamed Banana Flowers

Wild banana flowers, lean pork and eggs are used as raw materials. First tender banana flowers cooked in boiling water, chopped, add a little salt kneading, squeeze out the astringent water into a bowl, add egg juice and finely chopped pork onion, garlic, coriander and a few green pepper, salt, monosodium glutamate (MSG), high mixing uniformly, wrapped in fresh banana leaves into a square leaf packet, into the cauldron steam for 20-30 minutes can be eaten. This dish, color, aroma and taste, no greasiness.

Banana Flower Soup

Wild banana flowers, lean pork and stinking vegetables as the main raw material cooking. Banana flowers peeled off the outer layer of aging petals, washed and chopped, add a little salt kneaded, rinsed with water in addition to astringent flavor, cooked in broth to seven mature, add pork slices (end) and washed and cut section of the stinking vegetables to cook, add the right amount of salt, monosodium glutamate can be eaten. This dish soup, color red, white, green color, taste fresh and delicious. [2]

Five-spice banana flower

Banana flower into the water to boil for 2 minutes, out into the cold water soaked for 2 minutes, drain water.

Beat the egg, put it into a bowl, add flour and salt and mix well.

Heat the oil in a pan, put the banana flower hanging paste, into the pan fried golden brown, pull out and drain the oil can be.

Because of the deep-frying process, you need to prepare about 500 grams of salad oil.

Banana flowers: banana flowers avoid fish, sheep, cold, eggs, garlic.