Red toon tree buds can be eaten, aromatic flavor, play a health role in human health. Its hard wood, red color, can be anticorrosive, anti-insect, is the production of high-grade furniture and handicrafts of the good wood, people call "peace tree", "lucky tree", "fortune tree".
Legend has it that one of the Eight Immortals, Lv Dongbin, often used the toon wood as a pillow when he was banished to Saixiantai in Shanzhou.
Medicinal value
"Compendium of Materia Medica" recorded that the root fruit is used as medicine to cure all kinds of diseases, and the leaf, stem, skin and root are treasures for the whole body, which can drive away worms and prevent diseases. At the same time, it is beneficial to human health by spending time with people.
Called "tree vegetables", is the young shoots of the toon tree. Every spring began to sprout, toon leaves thick buds tender, green leaves red edge, like agate, emerald, rich flavor, nutritional richness is much higher than other vegetables, for the banquet of the famous and valuable delicacies. Toon hair shoots can be made into a variety of dishes. It is not only nutritious, and has high medicinal value.
China is the world's only to the toon shoots and leaves into the cuisine of the country. Shandong, Anhui, Henan, Shaanxi, Sichuan and southern Hunan and northern Guangxi are cultivated, of which Anhui's Taihe toon is the most famous.
The toon tree usually starts sprouting around Qingming and is available in large quantities in early spring. Toon heads can be categorized into red buds and green buds due to different qualities. Red buds red-brown, good quality, strong flavor, is an important variety for food; green buds green, coarse quality, poor flavor.
Toon bitter, astringent, flat, into the liver, stomach, kidney.
It has the efficacy of clearing heat and detoxification, strengthening the stomach and regulating qi, moisturizing the skin and brightening the eyes, killing worms, astringent blood and stopping dysentery, and stopping the collapse;
The main treatment of sores, alopecia, redness of the eyes, and lung-heat and coughing;
It can also be used in prolonged diarrhea and long term dysentery, hemorrhoids, hemorrhoids, leakage with discharge, and the treatment of ringworm and scabies and other diseases.
Toon is a seasonal product, containing volatile aromatic organic substances such as toonin, can strengthen the spleen and stomach, increase appetite. Containing vitamin E and sex hormone substances, anti-aging and tonic yang yin role, so there is a "help pregnancy" of the name. Toon has the effect of clearing away heat and dampness, diuretic and detoxification, and is a good medicine to assist in the treatment of enteritis, dysentery and urinary tract infections. Toon volatile odor can pass through the epidermis of roundworms, so that roundworms can not be attached to the intestinal wall and be discharged from the body, can be used to treat ascariasis. Toon is rich in vitamin C, carotene, etc., helps to enhance the body's immune function, and has the role of lubricating the skin, is a good food for health and beauty.
Consumption of toon taboo: the general population can eat toon. But the toon for hair, food easily induced recurrence of chronic diseases, so patients with chronic diseases should eat less or do not eat.
Other uses
Today people due to the toon wood. Tough texture, straight grain, beautiful pattern, its material, pattern and color. Most of them are used to make home, furniture, clocks, utility supplies, health care supplies of raw materials, beautiful but not luxurious, simple but not lose the atmosphere, is the first choice of the pleasant home.