As a medicine, Tremella fuciformis is flat and sweet, and it can nourish yin and moisten lung by entering lung and spleen meridian. Nourishing stomach, promoting fluid production, tonifying deficiency, and treating dry throat due to lung yin deficiency, dry cough with little phlegm and blood in phlegm; Loss of appetite, thirst, constipation, fatigue, dry mouth and tongue due to deficiency of stomach yin.

Tremella fuciformis has the functions of strengthening essence and tonifying kidney, nourishing intestine and stomach, invigorating qi and blood, strengthening heart and ambition, nourishing brain and refreshing mind, beautifying skin and prolonging life. The beauty effect of tremella is that it can remove freckles and chloasma on the face, so it has become a common thing for beauty masters.

When purchasing, it should be noted that the normal dried tremella is white, slightly yellow, with loose flowers, fleshy, tough and elastic, giving off the peculiar smell of tremella, which can expand by 8~ 15 times after soaking. The ears of the deteriorated dried tremella are brown or green-brown, with no fresh shells, thin and fragile flowers, and black spots or orange patches on the pedicle. The rotten part, after soaking,

Because tremella contains more nitrates, if cooked tremella is left for a long time, nitrate will be reduced to nitrite under the decomposition of bacteria. After people eat the tremella soup containing more nitrite, it will make hemoglobin in the blood lose the ability to carry oxygen, thus destroying the normal hematopoietic function of the human body, and even causing vomiting, coma and even death in severe cases. Therefore, when making tremella soup at home, they should eat it now.