Wonderful use of magnolia grandiflora
Magnolia grandiflora, a deciduous tree of Magnoliaceae, has a stout body and sparse and stout branches. Buds are pregnant in the middle of winter, all at the end of branches, and they bloom in early spring, and the flowers are roughly blue and white. Thousands of flowers are beautiful, fragrant and pleasant, conveying the message of spring to the world. It is graceful alone, and it is a jade garden and a beautiful forest when it lives in groups. It is not only beautiful in appearance, elegant in mood, but also strong in smoke resistance and sulfur absorption, and mosquitoes and flies dare not approach it.
Magnolia grandiflora is not only ornamental, but also a traditional medicinal material. Zhao Xuemin of the Qing Dynasty wrote a medical book Compendium of Materia Medica from the income of Magnolia officinalis, which he called? Resolving phlegm, benefiting lung and qi, honey stains are particularly good? .
Flos Magnoliae, a commonly used Chinese medicine, is the bud of Magnolia grandiflora. Its nature is warm and pungent, and it has the functions of dispelling wind and cold, enlightening and waking up. Contains citral, eugenol and cineole, which can inhibit a variety of pathogenic fungi. Soaking Flos Magnoliae in alcohol, filtering, and concentrating into soft extract, or making Flos Magnoliae into decoction, oil, emulsion, etc. It has obvious curative effect on hypertrophic rhinitis and acute rhinitis by soaking the nose with cotton strips, which can make nasal ventilation comfortable, reduce secretion, eliminate headache and improve turbinate hypertrophy. Clinically, adding Magnolia Officinalis to the syndrome differentiation compound, using 5 flowers or 3 grams of dried products each time, has a certain effect on treating functional infertility or primary dysmenorrhea. If you take a few magnolia flowers and a little tea and put them in a cup to make tea, you can cure heatstroke, dizziness and chest tightness. You can also take a proper amount of Magnolia officinalis and Perilla leaves and brew them with boiling water instead of tea to treat colds and headaches.
Magnolia can also be eaten. After seasoning, it is mixed with magnolia petals, flour and sugar and fried in an oil pan, which becomes a delicious snack. If japonica rice is cooked in a pot until porridge is made, adding appropriate amount of Flos Magnoliae petals, hawthorn and honey to make porridge will make the food sweet and sour, and make you keep fit and improve your eyesight. If the petals of Magnolia grandiflora are washed and dried, kneaded into balls with equal amount of white sugar and sealed in bottles, they can be used as ingredients for various health candy or steamed cakes.
Healthy eating of magnolia officinalis
Magnolia flower tea
Indications: hypertension, vasospasm headache.
Methods: 3 ~ 6 grams of Magnolia officinalis. Brew with boiling water. You can add a little sugar instead of tea.
Yulan honey tea
Formula: 3-5g of Magnolia officinalis, 25g of honey and 0.5- 1g of green tea.
How to take it: Boil magnolia and green tea in water for 5 minutes, then add honey while it is hot and stir well. One dose a day, three times.
Efficacy: anti-inflammatory, expectorant.
Application: pulmonary tuberculosis and chronic tracheitis.
Magnolia porridge
Materials: Flos Magnoliae 10, japonica rice100g, 5 hawthorn slices, and appropriate amount of honey.
Efficacy: dispel wind and cold, and clear the orifices.
Indications: cold, stuffy nose, headache, rhinitis, sinusitis, hypertension, vasospasm, headache, cough, heatstroke and chest tightness.
Methods: First, break off the petals of Magnolia grandiflora and wash them. Then wash the japonica rice, put it in a clear water pot, boil it with high fire, and then turn to low heat. When the porridge is ready, add hawthorn slices, honey and Flos Magnoliae, and simmer.
Precautions: Eat warm food every morning and evening.
Other methods of use
(1) Magnolia cake is fried with magnolia and flour. Tender outside and tender inside, delicious.
(2) Add rice flour (rice or millet) into the steamed cake of Magnolia officinalis, put it into a steamer in three to five layers after fermentation, put some petals and preserved fruits of Magnolia officinalis in every two layers, and put it into a pot for steaming. This is the seasonal cake in spring. It tastes soft and sweet.
(3) Sliced meat of Magnolia denudata is wrapped with starch, a small amount of magnolia petals are put in, then fried in an oil pan, and sweet and sour juice or tomato juice is added after taking out, which is fragrant and delicious.
(4) Magnolia salad is a delicious seasonal food, which is made of apples, watermelons, bananas and strawberries with magnolia flowers and salad dressing.
(5) Mix Magnolia with celery stalks, wax gourd strips and dried bean curd, add Magnolia, monosodium glutamate and white sugar, and add some rice vinegar to mix and stir, which is fragrant and delicious.
(6) Boil soup with fresh shrimp, mushrooms and wax gourd. After cooking, add a small amount of Flos Magnoliae and various seasonings, such as chicken essence, cooking wine and pepper, and then use starch to hook the juice.
(7) After mixing the egg soup of Flos Magnoliae with eggs, add sugar, raisins, American ginseng slices and medlar to steam the soup, which is rich in nutrition.