Wonderful use of magnolia grandiflora
Magnolia grandiflora, a deciduous tree of Magnoliaceae, has a strong body and sparse and thick branches. Buds are bred in the middle of winter, all at the ends of branches, and bloom in early spring. The flowers are large and slightly blue and white. Thousands of branches and flowers are beautiful, fragrant and pleasant, conveying the message of spring to the world. It is graceful alone, and it is a jade garden and a beautiful forest when it lives in groups. It is not only beautiful in appearance and elegant in mood, but also has strong smoke resistance and sulfur absorption ability, and mosquitoes and flies are afraid to get close to it.
Magnolia is not only ornamental, but also a traditional medicine. Zhao Xuemin of Qing Dynasty wrote a medical book Compendium of Materia Medica with the income of Magnolia officinalis, which he called? Resolving phlegm, benefiting lung and qi, honey stains are particularly good? .
Flos Magnoliae, a commonly used Chinese medicine, is the bud of Magnolia grandiflora. Its nature is warm and pungent, and it has the functions of dispelling wind and cold, enlightening and waking up. It contains citral, eugenol and eucalyptol, and has inhibitory effect on many pathogenic fungi. Soaking Flos Magnoliae in alcohol, filtering, and concentrating into soft extract, or making Flos Magnoliae into decoction, oil, emulsion, etc. And tampon soaking to block the nose, has obvious curative effect on hypertrophic rhinitis and acute rhinitis, makes nasal ventilation comfortable, reduces secretion, eliminates headache and improves turbinate hypertrophy. Clinically, adding Magnolia Officinalis to the syndrome differentiation compound, using 5 flowers or 3 grams of dried products each time, has a certain effect on treating functional infertility or primary dysmenorrhea. If you take a few magnolia flowers and a little tea and put them in a cup to make tea, it can treat heatstroke, dizziness and chest tightness. You can also take appropriate amount of Flos Magnoliae and Folium Perillae and brew tea with boiling water to treat colds and headaches.
Magnolia can also be eaten. After seasoning, it is mixed with magnolia petals, flour and sugar and fried in an oil pan, which becomes a delicious snack. If you put the japonica rice in the pot and cook it until the porridge is finished, add appropriate amount of Flos Magnoliae petals, hawthorn and honey to cook the porridge, which will make the food sweet and sour, and make you healthy and eyesight. If the petals of Magnolia grandiflora are washed, dried, kneaded into the same amount of white sugar and sealed in bottles, they can be used as ingredients for various health candy or steamed cakes.
Healthy eating of magnolia officinalis
Magnolia flower tea
Indications: hypertension and vasospasm headache.
Method: 3 ~ 6 grams of Magnolia officinalis. Brew in boiling water. Besides drinking tea, you can add a little sugar.
Yulan honey tea
Formula: 3-5g of Magnolia officinalis, 25g of honey and 0.5- 1 g of green tea.
How to take it: Boil magnolia and green tea in water for 5 minutes, then add honey while it is hot and mix well. One dose a day, three times.
Efficacy: anti-inflammatory, expectorant.
Application: pulmonary tuberculosis and chronic tracheitis.
Magnolia porridge
Ingredients: Flos Magnoliae 10, japonica rice100g, 5 hawthorn slices, and appropriate amount of honey.
Efficacy: dispel wind, dispel cold and dredge orifices.
Indications: cold, stuffy nose, headache, rhinitis, sinusitis, hypertension, vasospasm, headache, cough, heatstroke and chest tightness.
Methods: First, break off the petals of Magnolia grandiflora and wash them. Then wash the japonica rice, put it in a clear water pot, boil it with high fire, and then turn to low heat. After the porridge is cooked, add hawthorn slices, honey and magnolia flower and cook it slightly.
Precautions: Take warm food every morning and evening.
Other methods of use
(1) Magnolia cake is fried with magnolia and flour. It looks fresh and tender and tastes delicious.
(2) Add rice flour (rice or millet) into the steamed cake of Magnolia officinalis, put it into a steamer in three to five layers after fermentation, put some petals and preserved fruits of Magnolia officinalis in every two layers, and steam it in the pot. This is the seasonal cake in spring. It tastes soft and sweet.
(3) Sliced pork slices of Magnolia Officinalis are wrapped with starch, a small amount of magnolia petals are put in, then fried in a wok, and then taken out and added with sweet and sour juice or tomato juice, which is fragrant and delicious.
(4) Magnolia salad is a delicious seasonal food, which is made of apples, watermelons, bananas and strawberries with magnolia flowers and mixed with salad dressing.
(5) Mix Flos Magnoliae with celery stalks, wax gourd strips and dried bean curd, add Flos Magnoliae, monosodium glutamate and white sugar, and add some rice vinegar to mix and stir, which is fragrant and delicious.
(6) Cook soup with fresh shrimp, mushrooms and melon. After cooking, add a small amount of Flos Magnoliae and various seasonings, such as chicken essence, cooking wine and pepper, and then hook the juice with starch.
(7) After the egg soup of Flos Magnoliae is mixed with eggs, white sugar, raisins, American ginseng slices and steamed soup of Lycium barbarum are added, which is rich in nutrition.