Elm is also a good medicine for disease prevention and health care. Elm has the effects of stranguria and eliminating damp-heat, and is mainly used to treat women's leukorrhagia and children's malnutrition. External use can treat stubborn diseases such as sores and ringworm. Chinese medicine believes that eating more elm money can help digestion and prevent constipation.

There are many ways to eat elm money:

One is eaten raw. Wash the fresh elm, add sugar, taste fresh, tender, crisp and sweet, and have a unique flavor. If you like salty food, you can put salt, soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, Chili oil, chopped green onion and coriander in a quiet study.

The second is to cook porridge. Stir-fry chopped green onion or garlic sprout, add water to boil, and cook porridge with rice or millet. When the rice is cooked, add the washed elm root and continue to cook for 5-8 minutes, adding appropriate seasoning. Yuqian porridge tastes smooth and delicious. Ouyang Xiu, a great writer in the Song Dynasty, left a poem "Cup and plate porridge is cold in spring, billiards hall is rainy at night".

The third is cage steaming. First, the elm roots are washed, mixed with corn flour or white flour to make steamed bread, and then steamed in a cage for half an hour. Or mix the cleaned elm with flour, stir evenly, steam directly in a cage, and then add seasoning.

The fourth is to make stuffing. Wash and chop the elm tree, add shrimp, meat or eggs, mix well, and wrap it in jiaozi, steamed bread and rolled pancakes, which is delicious.