Lily is a perennial herb with ornamental flowers and edible underground bulbs. Its edible and medicinal value was discovered in the 4th century. Mainly distributed in temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, such as East Asia, Europe and North America. More than 50 species of 100 have been found in the world, and China is the main place of origin, which is the natural distribution center of lily. In the west, it is named in memory of the Virgin Mary, symbolizing national independence and economic prosperity. In China, Lily has the meaning of centuries-old harmony, happy family, great love and deep blessing.
There is no doubt about the ornamental value of lily, and its nutritional value, medicinal value and edible value are also very popular, and it is known as the "respect of thousands of dishes". Every festive season, people have the custom of giving each other lilies or making lilies into cakes to entertain guests.
Efficacy and function of lily
(A) the efficacy of lily
Chinese medicine believes that lily is sweet, bitter, slightly cold, flat and non-toxic, and enters the heart, lungs, large intestine and small intestine. Moistening lung, relieving cough, clearing heart fire, calming nerves, invigorating middle energizer, invigorating qi, clearing away heat and diuresis, clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood, stopping bleeding, invigorating spleen and regulating stomach. Treat pulmonary tuberculosis with chronic cough, expectoration with blood, lily disease, palpitation, insomnia and dreaminess, dysphoria, heartache, laryngitis, stomachache due to deficiency of stomach yin, unfavorable defecation, edema, carbuncle, sore, beriberi, postpartum hemorrhage, abdominal distension and body pain.
Classic: controlling pathogenic factors, abdominal distension and heartache. Diuretic, tonify the middle energizer and replenish qi.
"Don't show": remove bloating, fullness, cold and heat, general pain, breast difficulty, laryngitis and stop tears.
Theory of Medicinal Properties: Treat beriberi, treat heat and cough except acute, fullness and heartache.
Materia Medica: Lily's function is to replenish qi while strengthening the body resistance and eliminating evil.
Dietotherapy materia medica: the main worry about yellow.
Materia Medica: Treating lily disease after typhoid fever.
Compendium of Materia Medica: Fighting epidemic and relieving cough.
Introduction to medicine: treating lung flaccidity and carbuncle
Addendum to the Outline: Clearing phlegm-fire and supplementing deficiency.
Materia Medica: Lily, the main evil abdominal distension.
"Ben Feng Jingyuan": Lily can replenish soil and clear gold, relieve cough and promote diuresis.
"Materia Medica Rehabilitation": Zhu Eryun said: People who cough for a long time must have deficiency of lung qi, which should be restrained.
Compilation of Medical Forest: Lily should be picked and used, which is suitable for people with cough and swelling due to deficiency heat. Use ginger, just the opposite.
Herbal justice: Lily is a sweet and cold product.
Japanese herbal medicine: peace of mind, courage, ambition and five internal organs.
Common Chinese herbal medicines in Shanghai: treating cough due to lung heat, chronic dry cough, deficiency heat after fever and restlessness.
(B) the role of lily
Runfei cough
Fresh lily contains mucus, which has the effect of moistening dryness and clearing heat. It is often used in Chinese medicine to treat lung dryness or cough caused by lung heat.
tranquilizing and allaying excitement
Lily enters the heart meridian and is slightly cold. It can clear the heart, remove annoyance, calm the heart and soothe the nerves. It can be used for symptoms such as residual heat after fever, trance, depression, sadness, crying, etc.
Beauty action
Lily is white, delicate and fresh, rich in mucus and vitamins, which is beneficial to the metabolism of skin cells. Eating lilies regularly has certain beauty effects.
Anti-cancer and anticancer effect
Lily contains a variety of alkaloids, which can prevent leukopenia, raise blood cells and treat hemocytopenia after radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Lily can also promote and enhance the monocyte system and phagocytosis in the body, and improve the body's humoral immunity, so lily has a good preventive effect on many cancers.
Antitumor effect
Lily is helpful to inhibit the growth of tumor cells, relieve the reaction of radiotherapy, improve the body's humoral immunity, and has a certain therapeutic effect on various tumor diseases.
improve immunity
Protein, amino acids and polysaccharides in lily can improve human immunity.
Improve sleep function
Lily contains lilioside, which has sedative and hypnotic effects. Taking lily soup before going to bed every night can obviously improve sleep, improve sleep quality and have a good effect on insomnia and dreaminess.
Adjuvant therapeutic effect on acute arthritis
Lily is rich in colchicine, which can quickly diminish inflammation and effectively relieve pain, and has an auxiliary treatment effect on acute joint inflammation caused by ventilation attack.
Anti-aging effect
Lily contains minerals, vitamins and other nutrients, which can promote human nutrition metabolism, enhance human anti-fatigue and hypoxia ability, remove harmful substances in the body and delay aging.
Stomach strengthening effect
Lily contains pectin and phospholipids, which can protect gastric mucosa and treat stomach diseases after taking it. Has the effect of treating stomach pain due to heat stagnation.
clear heat and detoxicate
The effective components in lily can clear away heat and detoxify, and people often use lily to remove toxins left after drinking some foods.
Antitussive, expectorant and antiasthmatic effects
Lily can relieve cough, expectorant and asthma. The results showed that lily water extract could prolong the latent period of cough caused by sulfur dioxide, reduce the number of coughs and significantly increase the discharge of phenol red. Lily decoction can relieve the cough caused by ammonia water in mice, increase the flow of lung perfusion in mice, and can resist toad asthma caused by histamine.
Conclusion: Are you surprised to see the nutritional value, efficacy and function of so many lilies? A small plant has so many nutritional values, effects and functions. It's really amazing. These are the treasures that nature has given to mankind!