Lily is sweet, cold, nourishing yin and moistening dryness. Return to lung meridian and heart meridian. Entering lung meridian, nourishing lung yin, clearing lung heat, moistening lung dryness and relieving cough; Enter the heart meridian, nourish the heart yin, benefit the heart qi, clear the heart heat, and calm the nerves. It is often used with Anemarrhena asphodeloides and Radix Rehmanniae to treat deficiency, palpitation, insomnia and dreaminess.
Suitable: people with lung deficiency, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, tuberculosis, bronchiectasis, cough and hemoptysis should eat; In the late stage of acute fever, people in a trance state should eat it because of menopausal neurosis, hysteria, restlessness, neurasthenia, palpitation, restless sleep, fright and other reasons. Lung cancer, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, chemotherapy and radiotherapy are all eaten, because lily can inhibit the growth of tumor cells and alleviate the radiotherapy reaction. Avoid: people who have a cold and cough should not eat it; Deficiency and cold of spleen and stomach, diarrhea and loose stool are forbidden to eat. Lily is a perennial herb of Liliaceae. As a medicine since ancient times, Japan domesticated it as an ornamental flower. On the basis of medicinal cultivation, China selected edible varieties and became one of the special vegetables in China. The famous producing areas are Lanzhou Lily in Gansu, Yixing Lily in Jiangsu, Huzhou Lily in Zhejiang, Wanzai Lily in Jiangxi and Longya Lily in Shaoyang, Hunan.
Lily can be cooked into various delicious dishes, snacks and sweet soup. At the same time, because lily is rich in nutrition, it can not only be used as a nourishing food to strengthen the body, but also enhance the immune function. In addition, dried lily, lily powder, lily products and canned lily with sugar water have entered the international market. In recent years, the export of fresh lily is also one of the main vegetables exported.
Lily propagates through bulbs, or aerial bulbs (small bulbs) or daughter lilies (formed on underground stems). Scales can be used to raise seedlings first, cultivate bulbs and then propagate. Bulb size, extremely inconsistent, usually tillering buds form early, develop larger, and the inner * central axis is smaller. Among them, the early lateral development is often separated from the mother bulb (split bulb), and after separation, an independent root system is formed, which becomes a single bulb, and the big one is used as a seed bulb in the following year.
Standard of fresh lily
Sensory requirements of lily: white color, no obvious spots, plump scales, no rotten spots, no damaged spots, no insect spots, no yellow rust spots, sweet and refreshing taste, no soil in roots, the length of fleshy fibrous roots not exceeding 1cm, total sugar more than 8.0% and crude fiber less than 0.8%.
Lily's choice
When buying lilies in the supermarket, we should pay attention to two points: first, the fresh lilies in the bag must be white in color, without black and brown spots, with thick petals, delicate texture and good appearance; Second, there is no smell after opening. In this way, it tastes better.