1, moistening lung and relieving 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. So lilies are very suitable for autumn.
Step 2 calm down
Lily enters the heart meridian, which is slightly cold, and 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, insomnia, dreaminess, depression, sadness and crying.
Step 3 fight cancer
Lily contains many active alkaloids. In vitro tissue culture with the concentration of 1 μ g/ml can inhibit the proliferation of cancer cells and has obvious anti-cancer effect. Modern pharmacological studies have confirmed that lily has a strong inhibitory effect on experimental mouse sarcoma-180 and cervical tumor-14. Studies have confirmed that eating lily is helpful to enhance physical fitness, inhibit the growth of tumor cells and alleviate the reaction to radiotherapy. For example, adding coix seed can improve the anti-cancer ability.
4. Enhance immune function
Protein, amino acids and polysaccharides in lily can improve human immunity. Taking lily water extract twice a day for 10 days can significantly enhance the vitality of the body, inhibit the delayed allergic reaction caused by 2,4-dinitrochlorobenzene, and significantly increase the number of white blood cells in peripheral blood. Co-culture of lily polysaccharide 250 μ g/ml with lymphocytes can significantly promote the synthesis of DNA and RNA and improve the survival rate of lymphocytes.
5. Sedation and hypnosis
Lily contains lilioside, which has sedative and hypnotic effects. Experiments show that taking lily soup before going to bed every night can obviously improve sleep and improve sleep quality.
Lily selection method
Fresh lilies should be large, with even petals, thick, white or light yellow. When purchasing, you should also pay attention to removing impurities, black petals, rotten hearts or moldy ones.
The dried lily should be dry, free of impurities, fleshy and crystal clear. Edible lilies are home-grown, not bitter in taste, and the best ones are wide and thin scales. Medicinal lily is wild, bitter, with small and thick petals.