The efficacy and effects of lily and how to eat

Lily, also known as white lily, garlic brain potato, heavy mai, night lily, is the dried fleshy phosphorus leaves of the lily family. Lily taste sweet, slightly cold, into the lung, spleen meridian, nutritional tonic, good for medicine and food. Today to introduce you to the efficacy and role of edible lily.

Nourish Yin and moisten the lungs

Lily is slightly cold and has a calm effect. It can nourish the lung yin and clear lung heat, and has the effect of nourishing yin and clearing the lung, moistening dryness and stopping cough. It can be used to treat dry cough with little phlegm, coughing up blood or dry throat and mute caused by Yin deficiency and heat in the lungs; it can also be used to treat chronic cough with lung deficiency, such as chronic bronchitis, emphysema, tuberculosis and hemoptying.

Clear the heart and calm the mind

Lily is slightly cold in nature and enters the heart meridian. It can nourish the yin and clear the heart, calm the mind and remove irritation, and can be used to treat deficiency heat disturbance, insomnia and palpitations. In addition, lily can nourish the yin of the heart and lungs and clear the heat of the heart and lungs, and has a calming effect on the mind, so it can also be used to treat residual heat after a feverish illness, mental confusion, insomnia, and depression.

Beauty and skin care

The lily contains more potassium, which is good for muscle excitement and can promote the coordination of metabolic functions, making the skin tender and elastic, thus reducing wrinkles. The fresh lily is also rich in mucilage and vitamins that are beneficial to the metabolism of skin cells, which can help to maintain skin.

Anti-cancer

Lily contains hydrolyzed colchicine, colchicine and other plant bases, which can inhibit the proliferation of cancer cells and can be used to treat lung cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, skin cancer, malignant lymphoma and so on. Lily is also effective in nourishing Yin and clearing the lungs, especially for symptoms such as weakness, dry mouth and irritability after receiving radiation, lily porridge can alleviate the adverse effects of radiation therapy, which is an ideal anti-tumor "medicine".

Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory

Lily has anti-inflammatory and antibacterial effects. Lily extract can inhibit Micrococcus garciniae, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Mycobacterium aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, etc. The inhibition of Gram-positive bacterial activity by the extract of the phosphorus stem of lily is also very obvious.

Enhance immunity

Lily polysaccharide can antioxidant and enhance immunity. Lily in the body can promote and enhance the phagocytic function of monocyte system and improve the immunity of human body.

Nutritional Composition

Modern medical research found that fresh lily contains 65.1% water, 40% protein, 28.5% carbohydrates (including starch, sucrose, reducing sugar, etc.), and a certain amount of potassium, carotene, and a small amount of other minerals and a variety of vitamins; in addition, it also contains pectin, hydrolyzed colchicine and other beneficial components. Its aquaporine, colchicine and other similar plant bases, can be a straight cancer cell proliferation, clinical use in leukemia, skin cancer, breast cancer, etc., has a relatively obvious curative effect.

Edible method

It can be taken as a single decoction or mixed with other foods and medicines. It can be freshly steamed and boiled, or dried in the sun or flour as a staple food, such as lily cake, lily lotus seed soup, lily honey, eight treasures of sweet rice, osmanthus sugar lily, etc.

Contraindications

It is not suitable for people with cold wind and cough, or those with weak spleen and stomach.