Speaking of lily, everyone is familiar with it. Lily is not only a kind of flower, but also a kind of medicinal material. It has the effect of health preservation when you eat it properly, but what do you eat with fresh lily? How to choose fresh lily correctly? Xiaobian, let's take a look.
Lily, sweet and cold quality run, good nourishing Yin run dry. Return to lung, heart meridian. Entering the lung meridian, tonifying lung yin, clearing lung heat, moistening lung dryness and relieving cough; entering the heart meridian, nourishing heart Yin, benefiting heart qi, clearing heart heat and calming mind. It is often used with Anemarrhena asphodeloides and birthplace to treat deficiency, palpitation, insomnia and dreaminess
Appropriate: the patients with body deficiency, weak lung, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, tuberculosis, bronchiectasis, cough and hemoptysis are suitable for eating; the patients with acute fever, trance, menopausal neurosis, hysteria, restlessness, neurasthenia, palpitation, restlessness of sleep, palpitation and easy to wake up are suitable for eating; the patients with lung cancer Lily can inhibit the growth of tumor cells and alleviate the reaction of radiotherapy. Taboo: cold cough taboo; spleen and stomach deficiency cold, diarrhea loose stool taboo. Lily is a perennial herb of Liliaceae. Since ancient times, it has been used as medicine, while Japan has domesticated it as ornamental flowers. On the basis of medicinal cultivation, edible varieties were selected and became one of the specialty vegetables in China. Famous producing areas include Lanzhou Lily in Gansu, Yixing Lily in Jiangsu, Huzhou Lily in Zhejiang, Wanzai Lily in Jiangxi and Longya Lily in Shaoyang in Hunan.
Lily can be cooked into a variety of delicious dishes and a variety of dim sum, sweet soup. At the same time, because of its rich nutrition, Lily can not only be used as a tonic food to strengthen the body, but also enhance the immune function. In addition, dried lily, lily powder, Lily products and canned Lily in sugar water have entered the international market. In recent years, the export of fresh lily is also one of the main vegetables for export.
Lilium is propagated by bulbs. It can also be propagated by using aerial bulbs (bulbils) or seed Lilium (formed on the nodes where the stems are buried in the soil) and scales. Bulb size, very inconsistent, usually tillering bud formation early, larger development, smaller inner * axis. Among them, the early developed lateral bulb often separated from the mother bulb (split bulb), formed an independent root system after separation, and became a single bulb. The larger bulb would be used as a seed bulb in the next year.
Standard of fresh lily:
Lily sensory requirements: white color, luster, no obvious stains, thick and full scales, no rotten spots, no damage spots, no insect spots, no yellow rust spots, its taste is sweet and refreshing, no peculiar smell, no soil in the root, and the length of fleshy fibrous root is not more than 1cm, the physical and chemical indicators of total sugar is more than 8.0%, crude fiber is less than 0.8%.
Selection of Lily:
When you buy lilies in the supermarket, you should pay attention to two points: first, the fresh lilies in the bag must be white in color, without dark brown spots, with thick big petals, fine texture and good appearance; second, there is no strange smell when they are opened. In this way, it tastes better.