Fill the pot with water, add edible salt, and put the zongzi leaves in the pot for a while. When you feel the leaves are soft and elastic, you can take them out. (About 6.7 minutes is enough. )
Then put it in clear water to wash the salt off the pages. Wipe both sides of the leaf with a wet cloth from the root to the top, and follow the grain.
Then soak the washed palm leaves in clear water again for later use.
Health care function of palm leaves
Li Shizhen, a famous Chinese medicine practitioner in Ming Dynasty, said in Compendium of Materia Medica that Zongye has the functions of clearing away heat and stopping bleeding, detoxifying and reducing swelling, and treating hematemesis, bleeding, dysuria and carbuncle. The leaves of Zongzi are mostly reed leaves in the north and bamboo leaves or lotus leaves in the south, all of which have good medicinal functions. For example, reed leaves can clear away heat and promote fluid production, remove troubles and quench thirst; Bamboo leaves can clear away heat, relieve annoyance, induce diuresis and detoxify; Lotus leaf can clear away heat, induce diuresis and regulate stomach. As a food packaging, it is natural and pollution-free, so it is called "natural green food" by nutritionists today. In addition, leaves not only bring fragrance, but also provide polyphenols and potassium elements, which penetrate into rice during steaming, which is beneficial to improve the heat resistance of human body. In recent years, studies have proved that the extract of palm leaves (Indocalamus leaves) also has anti-cancer effect.