In daily life, people often consume lilies. Lily is a herb of the same origin as medicine and food, taking the fleshy scale leaves of its root, which is delicious, nutritious and has high medicinal value.
What are the benefits of lilies
Lily is slightly cold, sweet in taste, returns to the heart and lung meridians, and is a yin-tonifying medicine. Lily has the effect of nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, clearing the heart and soothing the nerves, and is very effective for yin deficiency, dry cough, insomnia and dreams. People with cold cough and loose stools should not eat lilies.
There is a disease called lily disease
Clinically, there is a disease whose name is also related to lilies, and that is lily disease. The "Golden Essentials" points out that people suffering from lily disease "want to eat, but can't eat anymore; are often silent, can't lie down if they want to lie down, can't do what they want to do; when they eat and drink when they are beautiful, or when they don't smell the smell of food, if they are cold without cold, if they are hot without heat, if they have a bitter mouth, and they urinate with red ......"
The meaning of this passage is that a person with lily disease wants to eat but cannot eat or has no appetite at all, wants to sleep but cannot sleep, is upset, does not want to speak, is restless, has hot and cold but is not feverish, has a bitter mouth, dry mouth, thirst, and urine is yellow. If you have any of the above conditions and go to the hospital for examination and no organic lesions are found, you should be careful of lily disease.
Why is this disease called lily disease? Most of this disease is caused by internal injuries of the seven emotions, and some of it is caused by internal heat caused by yin deficiency in the heart and lungs after a serious illness. Lily is the "main force" to deal with this disease, and is often used in combination with other traditional Chinese medicines, such as Lily Zhimu Soup and Lily Dihuang Soup.
Lily Diet Prescription
Below, I recommend a dietary remedy for you: honey steamed lily.
Ingredients: 100 grams of lily, 50 grams of honey.
Method: Wash the lily, add honey and stir well. Put the mixed lily honey in a container and steam it over water. Take it in your mouth at any time and swallow slowly.
Efficacy: Moistens the lungs and relieves cough. It is suitable for cough caused by lung yin deficiency, symptoms such as dry cough or dry cough, cough without phlegm or little phlegm, chest irritation, dry throat, dry lips, dry stool, red tongue, less lichen, thin pulse, etc.
It should be noted that lilies are slightly cold, and those with weak spleen and stomach and heavy dampness should not eat.
Source: Elderly Health News
Text: Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhou Jiali, Sun Guixiang
Curator: Zheng Yingfan
Editor: Wang Qianhui Guan Zhongyao
Proofreading: Ma Yang
Review: Qin Mingrui, Xu Bingnan