Willow bud is a kind of ornamental flower by the lake. It is widely used, but it is worth noting that it has certain toxicity. Some people will ask if it can be eaten since it has toxicity? Let's take a look at it with this question.
Can willow buds eat willow buds? The answer is yes. Willow buds can be eaten, tea can be made, and disease can be cured, but they should be picked before the catkins are opened. When making tea, you should use the sprouts to dry, and then use boiling water with the tea. But willow buds do contain certain toxicity, and the toxic parts are mainly leaves and skin, which is a kind of micro toxicity and will not cause harm to human body. Toxicity analysis and solution of willow bud poisoning symptoms: sweating, thirst, vomiting, vasodilation, tinnitus, blurred vision, severe dyspnea, drowsiness all day, loss of consciousness, deep and slow breathing, rapid pulse and other symptoms.
Poisoning treatment: use manual or medicine to induce vomiting immediately, and take 50g of active carbon orally after emesis. Patients with poisoning need to go to the hospital. The branches, leaves, bark, root bark and whiskers are used as medicine. Liutoupinggan, hair (powder) heat, can be tuonengsheng, septicemia, hair spots, the treatment of children's smallpox and other diseases. Willow leaf has the effect of clearing away heat and rash, diuresis and detoxification. In modern medical research, willow leaves are made into injection, sugar coated skin or decoction, which are used to treat upper respiratory tract infection, tracheitis, pneumonia, cystitis, suppurative mumps, mastitis, pharyngitis, etc.
2. Willow is a tree, and its crown is open and evacuated. Bark grayish black, irregularly dehiscent; branches slender, pendulous, glabrous. Buds linear, apex acute.
3. The way to eat willow buds: every 100 grams of willow leaves contains about 100 micrograms of iodine, thousands of times higher than general food. The tender leaves of willow, also known as willow buds, are washed by boiling water and cooled by cold water. After soaking for 24 hours, the water is changed for 2-3 times during the soaking process, with seasoning, fried food or cold mixture, which tastes slightly bitter, fresh and refreshing, and has high medicinal value. But willow is not edible. Be careful of poisoning.
Stir fried willow buds