tremella is not fungus.

The shape of "Huangshan Stone Ear" is similar to that of Auricularia auricula, but it is larger than Auricularia auricula, with black surface and fine spines, and a moss-like light green film on the back, with a pedicle in the middle, which grows in the stone gap in the damp place of hanging rock cliffs. Generally, it takes six or seven years to grow. Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica records: "The stone ear is sweet and non-toxic, and it can improve eyesight and replenish essence"; In the Qing Dynasty's Compendium of Materia Medica, the stone ear was said to be "beautiful in food and color for a long time, beneficial to the spirit." Stone ear is commonly used in folk to treat sore throat, and the effect is remarkable. "Compendium of Materia Medica" also says: "It is the most precious thing to make soup for food." Stewed meat or stewed chicken with stone ears is delicious and praised by diners. It is a difficult thing to pick "Huangshan Stone Ear". Huangshan Mountain is high and dense, and the temperature difference between the mountains and the mountains is large. Generally, it is picked during May and October. Drug farmers should choose sunny weather, walk hand in hand, carry items such as coarse hemp rope and special bamboo baskets with them, climb rocks and steep walls, and after finding the trail of stone ears, they should first choose the place to go down the mountain, tie one end of coarse hemp rope to the tree at the top of the mountain or wear it in a rock hole, and tie the other end to the drug farmers. It is not easy for farmers to go down to the deep valley of thirty or forty feet to pick.

tremella fuciformis is a lichen plant named tremella fuciformis (miyoshi) minks, also known as shiitake mushroom, tremella fuciformis, stone cliff flower, etc. Stone ear, named because it looks like an ear and grows in the wet crevices of cliffs. Tremella fuciformis contains high protein and various trace elements, which is a nourishing food with high nutritional value and a rare and precious mountain delicacy. The stone ear of Huangshan Mountain is called one of the "Three Stones of Huangshan Mountain".

efficacy of tremella fuciformis:

tremella fuciformis is sweet and flat. It has the effects of clearing away lung heat, nourishing stomach yin, nourishing kidney water, invigorating qi and promoting blood circulation, nourishing brain and strengthening heart. It has a good therapeutic effect on cough due to lung heat, dry cough due to lung dryness, gastrointestinal fever, constipation with bleeding, dizziness and tinnitus, irregular menstruation, coronary heart disease and hypertension. It has the best nourishing effect on weak body and weak body after illness. Modern research on tremella has obvious anti-cancer effect. Folk use the essence of men's food to increase marrow, and women are easy to get pregnant after eating.

Instructions for making tremella fuciformis:

1. Dry tremella fuciformis products should be soaked in boiling water with a little salt before use, and then gently rubbed to remove fine sand. Then grind off the burr on the back to avoid rough taste. Because it has no obvious flavor, the dishes must be matched with umami raw materials or flavored with soup;

2. As a rare delicacy, edible methods of tremella can be roughly divided into two types: sweet and salty. Sweet food is steamed with rock sugar or white sugar, and red dates, lotus seeds and longan meat can also be added. Salty food is stewed, steamed or burned with hens or lean meat (pork), and about 15 grams of tremella can be put in each chicken or 5 grams of lean meat;

3. It should be noted that the tremella must be cooked with ginger when it is tender, otherwise it will smell.

Auricularia auricula, commonly known as Auricularia auricula, is known as "the meat in the vegetarian diet". It grows on the trunk of dead broad-leaved trees. It is translucent when wet and leathery when dry. It is fragrant and delicious, and it is a natural black health food and a famous tonic. Auricularia auricula contains 8 kinds of amino acids, vitamins and rich gum, which has good effects of moistening lung and clearing esophagus. There is a long history of planting auricularia auricula in Tianzhu Mountain area. Tremella auricula, which grows on the precipice of the mountain deep in the clouds of Tianzhu Mountain, is a rare wild edible and medicinal fungus which is born with natural nutrition. It is a pure natural and pollution-free green food. It is a delicacy and a must in China. According to "Compendium of Materia Medica", the stone ear is cool and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, clearing liver and improving eyesight, nourishing liver and kidney, resisting bacteria and lowering blood pressure; It has special effects on headache, fever, pharyngolaryngitis, severe heart fire, toothache due to wind fire, internal and external hemorrhoids, intense stomach fire and nosebleed.