Fresh lilies are generally open after slicing, cooking and so on generally 5 minutes to cook through, blanching in water can be faster 2 to 3 minutes, longer time is very easy to melt and become sticky. Dry lilies can be soaked in warm water before cooking, you can immediately put into the pot, but soak for an hour or two, you can cook faster. Cook for 10 minutes, but usually cook for 30 minutes until soft.

1. Lily porridge:First, wash the appropriate amount of rice, put it into the pot, add the appropriate amount of water, boil with martial arts fire, and then cook with the fire for 30 minutes, and finally put in the lily, and cook for another ten minutes. Lily porridge has the effect of clearing heat and detoxification, reducing fire and nourishing blood, moistening the lungs and relieving cough.

2. Three-color lily: Lily head and tail cleaning and spare, celery leaf tendon cleaning and spare, ginkgo boiled in tap water for a while, and then peeled and peeled. Then, stir-fry the celery for a while, then add the ginkgo and lily stir-fry for 5 minutes, until the lily is completely transparent.

3. Lily Soup:Wash the lily from head to tail, put it into a pot with ice, boil it over high heat, and then turn to a gentle heat to cook until it is stewed. Add sugar when taking will taste better, suitable for tuberculosis patients.

4. Lily pumpkin soup:Lily can also be taken with winter melon. The practice is:Wash the fresh lily with the freshest part of the petals, dry it, mix it with sugar, evenly spare. Peel the winter melon, slice it, put it on a plate and steam it for 20 minutes.

All of the above 1-3 ways can be used fresh and dried lilies, the fourth way can only use fresh lilies. Usually fresh lilies can be boiled for 5 minutes. Dried lilies soaked in tap water for 1-2 hours and then boiled for 20 minutes is appropriate. If put into the pot immediately, it needs to be boiled for 40 minutes.

What are the benefits of fresh lily tea?

1, cough and moisturize the lungs

Fresh lily contains mucus, which has the effect of moisturizing the lungs, clearing heat and removing toxins. Chinese medicine can often be effective in treating lung dryness or wind-heat cough. So lilies are great for fall.

2, nourishing yin and blood

Lily into the heart meridian, cold, can clear the heart to remove the annoyance, nourishing yin and blood, used for the continued recovery of residual heat after fever, dazed, insomnia, dreamy, moody, sad and crying and so on.

3. Prevent cancer.

There are many special flavonoids in lily. When the concentration is 1mg/ml, it can shape the tissue in vitro and can inhibit the proliferation of tumor cells, which has significant anti-cancer effects. Contemporary pharmacological studies have confirmed that lily has a strong inhibitory effect on experimental mouse sarcoma-180 and cervical tumor-14. Scientific research has confirmed that the consumption of lily is conducive to enhance resistance, inhibit the growth and development of tumor somatic cells, reduce the reaction to radiotherapy, or Job's tears can improve the ability to prevent cancer.

4. Enhance immunity.

The content of protein, carbohydrates and sugar in lily can improve the body's immunity. Taking lily water extract twice a day for 10 days can significantly improve the body's charisma, inhibit the symptoms of delayed head allergy caused by 2,4-dinitrochlorobenzene, and increase the number of jugular vein white blood cells. Molding lily with reticulocytes with a sugar content of 250 mg/ml significantly promoted the production of DNA and RNA, and the survival rate of reticulocytes was also improved.

5, calming and disrupting sleep

Lily contains lily glycosides, which have the effect of calming and disrupting sleep. Experiments have proved that drinking lily soup every night before going to bed can greatly improve the quality of sleep and improve sleep.

6, beauty

Lily white and delicate, fresh and contains mucus and vitamins, is conducive to the basic metabolism of skin cells. Eating lilies often have a certain role in beauty and skin care.

7. Auxiliary treatment for gout attacks

Lilies have colorful colchicine tablets, which can be used as an auxiliary treatment for gout and joint pain. Colchicine tablets do not affect the metabolism of blood uric acid, but only reduce the buildup of urate produced by blood uric acid based on the inhibition of white blood cell counts and tissue cell activity. It has the effect of rapid anti-inflammatory and moderate pain relief, and is an adjunctive treatment for acute joint inflammation caused by gouty attacks.