Long claw can be eaten.

The scientific name of dragon's claw is wood standing aloe vera, a perennial plant of the lily family, with short or obvious stems, fleshy leaves in rosette-like clusters or sometimes bilinear bearers, with an acute apex and a margin that is often sclerotized or spiny.

The stem is up to 1~2 meters high, with long lateral buds on the stem, which is shaped like a tree. Leaves are whorled, 3~4 centimeters wide, about 30 centimeters long, 1~1.5 centimeters thick. Orange-red flowers bloom in fall and winter. Growing for more than two years, a single leaf weighs about 40 grams, and the old leaves are good for medicine. In terms of medicinal use, the leaves can be eaten raw and beaten juice.

Expanded Information:

The dragon's claw is not toxic, the dragon's claw leaf skin is rich in citric acid, calcium, iron, zinc and other nutrients, you can usually remove the skin of its leaves mashed, mixed with honey, sugar and other ingredients to eat.

The juice in the leaves of the dragon's claw is extremely bitter, if not mixed with other sweet food is very difficult to go down the throat, it is among the nutrients can not only play a role in preventing disease, there is also antibacterial disinfection, bronchitis, asthma and other diseases also have a certain degree of help, long-term consumption of the dragon's claw can also be anti-cancer.

Every time you consume claws, can effectively help the body metabolism, but still a small amount of food, if the claws a lot of food, it is easy to reduce its nutritional value to the body, so that its effect gradually weakened, and may even cause abdominal pain and diarrhea and other adverse phenomena.

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