The efficacy and effect of bamboo potatoes to dispel dampness: clearing the lungs, cough, clearing heat diuretic, used to treat lung-heat cough, bladder dampness and heat of urinary astringent pain.
Tubers: sweet, light, cool. Clearing lung, diuretic. Used for lung-heat cough, red painful urination. Bamboo potato, also known as winter flour potato, bamboo taro, bamboo taro flour is almost all starch, no vitamins, protein content of only 0.2%. It can be used as a thickener for soups, sauces, puddings and tail food snacks.
Boiled with water into a transparent, odorless delicious paste. Bamboo taro powder is fine compared with other starches can be cooked at lower temperatures and shorter periods of time, but also easy to digest, especially suitable for making can not be overcooked milk custard and other egg products, but also suitable for the production of light, low-salt and low-protein food.
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The climate in western Guangdong is ideal for growing winter potatoes, and the deep, well-drained sandy loam soil here is particularly good for the growth of winter potatoes. The seeds are sown around January each year and harvested at the end of the year until January of the following year.
Winter yam is sensitive to moisture and should be well watered during the growing period to keep the soil moist, but the soil should not be waterlogged, otherwise it will lead to root rot or even plant death.
Because the bamboo taro leaves are large, water evaporation fast, so the air humidity requirements are high, if the air humidity is not enough, the leaves will immediately curl, very sensitive reaction, as if it is a new leaf growth period, more should often spray water to the plant, otherwise it will be due to air drying lead to new leaves difficult to stretch, leaf edge withered yellow, leaf small lusterless, velvet bamboo taro and other varieties of leaves without velvet texture, seriously affecting the ornamental, the indoor cultivation must be fully watered to keep potting soil moist, but the soil should not be stagnant, otherwise it will lead to root rot or even death of the plant. Therefore, indoor cultivation air humidity must be maintained at 70% ~ 80%.
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