White fungus for the stramenophora class fungus family plant silver ear of the substrate. White fungus is mainly parasitic on the chestnut tree. White fungus is also known as silver fungus, snow fungus, white fungus.

Performance of white fungus taste sweet, flat, into the lung, stomach meridian. Its composition contains proteins, fat, crude fiber, phosphorus, iron, sulfur, magnesium, potassium, sodium, vitamins (B1, B2), niacin, sugar. Its role: ① nourishing yin and moistening dryness, used for lung and stomach yin deficiency caused by dry mouth and thirst, constipation, dry throat, dry cough, hemoptysis and other conditions of nourishment and treatment. ② used for vomiting and diarrhea caused by the deficiency of yin, and hypertension, arteriosclerosis patients with yin deficiency conditioning.

Attention and contraindications ① white fungus to color yellow-white, large, light, glossy, thick body is good. ② wind-cold cough should not be eaten.

Recipe and use

(1) silver fungus rock sugar soup: 10 grams of silver fungus, rock sugar. Put the silver fungus in a bowl, soak in water or cool water to bubble open to the degree, take out and put in a casserole with rock sugar **** decoction, decoction for about 1 hour, drink soup and eat silver fungus. Silver fungus, rock sugar two flavors together to nourish yin, stop coughing, suitable for lung yin deficiency caused by dry cough, hemoptysis and other flat symptoms of nourishment and treatment, or for hypertension, arteriosclerosis people nourishment, but also for tuberculosis patients adjuvant therapy.

(2) ginkgo biloba lily salvia soup: 12 grams of ginkgo biloba, lily 12 to 15 grams, 12 grams of northern salvia, the right amount of rock sugar. The silver fungus first soaked in water for a few hours, to be swollen open, and lily, northern ginseng, rock sugar with the water in the casserole, 1 hour after taking the juice to drink, the silver fungus, lily can be eaten. Silver fungus, lily moisten the heart and lungs to clear heat, northern ginseng nourish the lungs and stomach, rock sugar to moisten the lungs to stop coughing, the four flavors used together to nourish yin and moisten the lungs to stop coughing. It is suitable for dry cough, blood in sputum, dry mouth, constipation and other symptoms of lung yin deficiency.