Lily: clear the lungs and fire, calm down and nourish internal organs

Every autumn, lilies start to go on the market. The scaly tubers are as white as snow, smooth and clean. Lily is used for medicine and food, and it has been recorded in "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" as early as. It is not only food and medicine, but also has a good meaning. For example, on the wedding day, you must give the two newlyweds a bowl of porridge made of lilies, which means a good relationship for a hundred years. Also because it is as delicate and lovely as a mini lotus when it blooms, it has become the new favorite of many people on the balcony.

This lily is not the other lily, the edible bai he needs to be distinguished.

Regarding lilies, we must first know that the medicinal lilies and the lilies we see in the flower shop are two different things, so we must not confuse them.

Medicinal lilies are divided into home-grown and wild-grown. The scales of home-grown lilies are wide and thin, and the taste is not very bitter; wild lilies have small and thick scales and have a bitter taste. Generally, lilies in pharmacies are processed.

Although the lily at home is not very bitter, people who pick the mouth still don't like the taste. Therefore, some places make lily red dates and glutinous rice porridge with a little sugar, which is sweet and fragrant, and the bitterness is completely unaware. Lily is abundant in Yixing City, Jiangsu Province. This lily is big, soft in the mouth, bitter and sweet, and is most suitable for making porridge. In some places, it is cooked with glutinous rice, red dates, and lotus seeds. This lily soup is already a dessert for many people who are keen to keep healthy.

Bai he nourish the five internal organs with peace of mind

The "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" records that lily "maintains evil qi, abdominal distension and heartache. It facilitates bowel movements, nourishes the middle and nourishes qi". The Tang Dynasty pharmacy book "Theory of Drug Properties" records that lily can "relieve anxiety, fullness, and pain, treat athlete's foot, heat and cough." "Rihuazi Materia Medica" records that lily can "relieve the mind, stabilize the gallbladder, benefit vitality, and nourish the five internal organs." ."

Autumn is the season for nourishing the lungs. Yan Yanfeng, a famous Chinese medicine doctor in Nanjing and the director of the Department of Pulmonary Diseases of Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, introduced that lily can clear the phlegm in the lungs and invigorate the wasting of the lungs. For example, the well-known TCM work "Introduction to Medicine" in the Ming Dynasty recorded that lily "treated lung dysfunction and pulmonary carbuncle." In the Qing Dynasty pharmacy work "Compendium of Materia Medica Supplements", it was recorded that lily could "clear phlegm and fire and replenish deficiency."

As a medicinal lily, it is usually steamed or cooked in porridge. In fact, a more suitable way to eat is to steam lilies. The Ming Dynasty pharmacy book "Ben Cao Pin Hui Essentials" records: "Lily, steamed and used."

Although lily has many tonic effects, there are still people who are contraindicated. For example, lily has a beneficial effect on urine and bowel, so it is not suitable for people with diarrhea. This has been reminded in the "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": "Deficiency of the qi in the middle of the qi, cold in the second stool, avoid it." People who have just started coughing are also not suitable for taking lily. Use." The rash use here means to use immediately and in a hurry.

Bai he commonly used diet therapy

Lily soup: 50 grams of lily, remove the outer black petals and dry tips, wash, add appropriate amount of water, cook, add a little sugar to eat.

Lily lotus seed soup: Wash 30 grams of lily and 10~15 lotus seeds. Boil the lotus seeds first, then boil them with a little bit of rock sugar. This soup can moisturize the lungs, nourish the mind, beautify, and help sleep.

Lily porridge: 50 grams of japonica rice or glutinous rice, wash and cook for 15 to 20 minutes, add 30 grams of washed lily and cook together. Add rock sugar to the porridge. The porridge can nourish yin, moisturize the lungs, and benefit the stomach, especially for patients with chronic bronchitis.

Stir-fried lily: 50 grams of pure lily, 50 grams of fine meat slices, stir-fry in the same oil pot over the fire, add a little salt, monosodium glutamate, etc., can be eaten as a dish.

Lily egg flower soup: Wash 50 grams of lily, add water to cook, then stir 2 eggs, pour into the pot, stir with a spoon to make egg flower, add salt, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil and other seasonings to make soup. If the egg is removed from the egg white, it is the lily chicken yellow soup, which can be used as a diet therapy for menopausal syndrome.