Reed is a tall perennial herb with creeping underground stems, thick and horizontal stems, hollow internodes and buds on each node. The stem is 2 ~ 5 meters high, and there is usually white powder under the node. Leaves arranged in 2 rows with leaf sheaths; Leaf sheaths keep stems hairless or with fine hairs; The leaves are gray-green or blue-green, wide, linear-lanceolate, 30-60 cm long and 2-5 cm wide, rough and tapering at the top; Ligule length 1 ~ 2 mm, round and hairy. Panicle is large, terminal, erect, sometimes slightly curved, long 15 ~ 25 cm, sometimes even longer; Spikelets are 9 ~ 12 mm long, dark purple or brownish purple, light yellow; The glume is lanceolate, and the inner glume is about 1 times longer than the outer glume. 1 flowers are usually male flowers, the lemma is 8 ~ 15 mm long, the palea is 3 ~ 4 mm long and the ridge is rough; The length of the second lemma is 9 ~ 16 mm, the tip is long and tapering, and the length of the base plate is 6 ~12 mm. Androgyny has 3 stamens, pistil 1, 2 styles and pinnate stigma. Lilac, elliptic to oblong, separated from palea. Phragmites communis blooms from September to1October.

Rootstock is rich in vitamins B 1, B2, C, protein, fat, carbohydrates and asparagine. It also contains amino acids, fatty acids, sterols, tocopherols, polyphenols such as caffeic acid and cholic acid. Sweet in nature; Cold. Indications: clearing away heat and promoting fluid production; Eliminate troubles and stop vomiting; Diuretics; Permeable rash. Main fever and polydipsia; Stomach heat vomiting; Lung heat cough; Pulmonary abscess with pus; Hot shower; Measles; Remove tetrodotoxin.

Edible processing method of reed root

Wash reed roots with clear water for later use.

A complete book on how to eat reed roots.

Practice of fresh reed root bamboo tube porridge

Materials: fresh reed rhizome 60g, bamboo shavings 15g, and japonica rice 50g.

Exercise:

Wash the japonica rice first, add water and cook it into porridge. When the rice is about to rot, add reed rhizome and bamboo shavings (cooked in advance) and cook with slow fire 15 minutes to taste.

Practice of pickling melon seeds, reed roots and Lysimachia christinae porridge

Ingredients: 30g of Patrinia, 30g of fresh reed rhizome, 0/5g of wax gourd kernel/kloc-,25g of Lysimachia christinae, and 60g of white rice.

Exercise:

Get all the materials ready. Clean Herba Patriniae, fresh Rhizoma Phragmitis, Semen Benincasae and Herba Lysimachiae Christinae for later use. Fry 1000 ml of water with the four materials in the second step, leaving about 500 ml of medicinal juice. Then, remove the residue and cook porridge with white rice, 1-2 times, once a day.

Practice of Lily-barley-reed root soup

Ingredients: lily (fresh) 30g, coix seed 30g, reed rhizome (dry)10g.

Practice: Wash reed rhizome, decoct to get juice, then add water to the decoction, cook the washed Coicis Semen to 80% maturity, add the washed lily petals, continue to heat with low fire, and take 500 ml of the decoction with Coicis Semen and Lily as ripe degrees, and eat it twice.

Practice of Qingfei Zhike Herbal Tea

Ingredients: 5 g of bamboo leaves, 0/0 g of loquat leaves/kloc-,0/0 g of reed rhizome/kloc-,8 g of brown sugar and 800㏄ of water.

Exercise:

Wash bamboo leaves, loquat leaves and reed roots together and chop them for later use. Take a clean casserole, put the ingredients of 1 into the pot, then add 800㏄ water and cook for about 20 minutes. Then add the brown sugar in practice 2, mix well, and filter the residue to get soup.

Who can't eat reed roots and the precautions of reed roots?

1. Who can't eat reed roots?

People with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should not take it.

2. Reed is suitable for people.

Generally everyone can eat it.

3. The taboo of reed root.

Reed root belongs to Chinese medicine, and Chinese medicine food has certain side effects. If eaten in moderation, it is a three-point poison.