Grass nuts are not poppies
Grass nuts are not poppies.
1, poppy family poppy plants; grass nuts are ginger family cardamom plants.
2, poppy is an annual herb. Stem height 30-80 cm (cultivated up to 1.5 m); Grasshopper perennial herb, stems clustered, 2-2.5 m (3 m) high.
3, poppy fruit long elliptic or pot-shaped, yellowish brown or light brown, smooth, with longitudinal lines. Seed majority, reniform,; strawberry, oblong or ovate-ellipsoid, short rounded protuberances, red when ripe, the outer surface of irregular longitudinal wrinkles.
Cao Guo
Cao Guo is one of the bulk varieties of dual-use Chinese medicinal herbs, Cao Guo for flavoring spices; the whole plant can be extracted aromatic oil. The fruit is used as medicine, with the function of drying dampness and strengthening the spleen, removing phlegm and intercepting malaria. It is mainly used for treating epigastric distension, regurgitation and vomiting, and malaria. A lot of Chinese patent medicines can not be separated from its formula, such as bone penetrating wind searching pills, kidney pills, open Yu Shu liver pills, broad chest diaphragm pills, white pills and so on.
Poppy
Large flowers, colorful, heavy cultivars for the garden ornamental plants. Immature fruit contains milky white pulp, dried opium, and the husk contains morphine, codeine, poppy alkaloids and other alkaloids, processed into medicine, astringent lungs, astringent intestines, cough, analgesic and hypnotic effects, treatment of chronic cough, chronic diarrhea, chronic dysentery, prolapse of the anus, abdominal and musculoskeletal pains; the seeds of the extracted oil can be eaten.
Cao Guo's practice
1. Preparation materials: chicken (half), Jinhua ham appropriate amount, a grass fruit, ginger 3 slices, salt appropriate amount.
2. Use a pot to boil water and use its steam to steam the chicken for about 45 minutes.
3. This is a beautiful Yunnan steamer chicken is done!