Chinese medicine believes that taro is flat in nature, sweet and pungent in taste, and has the effects of relaxing bowels, detoxicating, tonifying the middle warmer, benefiting the liver and kidney, relieving swelling and pain, invigorating the stomach and spleen, regulating the middle warmer and resolving phlegm, replenishing essence and marrow, removing blood stasis and promoting regeneration. It has certain adjuvant therapeutic effect on diseases such as dry stool, goiter, lymphoid tuberculosis, mastitis, insect bite bee sting, intestinal insect addiction, acute arthritis, etc.

Modern research has found that taro contains a variety of trace elements, which can enhance human immune function and can be used as a staple food to prevent and treat cancer. It plays a very good auxiliary role in radiotherapy, chemotherapy and rehabilitation after tumor surgery.

Characteristics of Lipu taro:

Lipu taro belongs to Araceae, also known as sunflower taro and areca taro. It turned out to be wild taro. It is an excellent wild taro variety formed by long-term natural selection and artificial breeding. Lipu taro is a large and exquisite taro with a unique flavor. This is the best taro.

It is oval, like weaving and spinning. It is heavy. Generally more than 2 kilograms, there are also five or six kilograms. Taro skin is rough and brown, the pitch on the skin is short, and the betel nut pattern on taro meat is obvious and the fragrance is very strong. Lipu taro is served with big white taro meat, which is soft and high-grade. The cut taro can be seen that the taro meat is covered with small red tendons, similar to the pattern of betel nut. It is called areca taro when cultivated.

Refer to the above? Baidu Encyclopedia-Lipu Taro, People.com-Health Cuisine: Xiaozhong Sanjie Taro in August.