Fill the pot with water, add edible salt, and put the zongzi leaves in the pot for a while. When you feel that the leaves are soft and flexible, you can take out the zongzi leaves. (About 6.7 minutes is enough.)
Then put it in clear water to wash off the salt on the page. Wipe both sides of the leaf from the root to the tip with a wet cloth and follow the grain.
Then soak the washed palm leaves in clean water again for later use.
Health care effect of palm leaves
In his Compendium of Materia Medica, Li Shizhen, a famous Chinese medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty, said that Zongye has the effects of clearing away heat and stopping bleeding, detoxicating and reducing swelling, 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, promote fluid production, relieve annoyance and quench thirst; Bamboo leaves can clear away heat, relieve annoyance, induce diuresis and detoxify; Lotus leaves can clear away heat, promote diuresis, and soothe the stomach. As food packaging, it has natural and pollution-free characteristics, 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 Zongye (Indocalamus leaves) also has anti-cancer effect.