What to cook with lily

As we all know, lily is a warm tonic, especially suitable for women, and has the effect of beautifying the skin. In addition to beautifying the skin, lily itself is also very nutritious. It contains protein, fat, carotene, etc. It can help to clear the mind and soothe the nerves, reduce swelling and moisten the lungs. Especially in the hot summer, it is easy to get hot and get angry. Cooking some lily every day can be a good conditioning. So besides these, what else can be cooked with lily?

[Alias] White lily (Bencao Gangmu), garlic brain potato (Compendium of Materia Medica). 【Medicinal Part】

It is the scale leaves of the bulbs of lily, lily of the valley, lily of the valley and many other plants of the same genus as the Liliaceae family.

【Ingredients】

Lily bulbs contain colchicine and other biological alkaloids as well as starch, protein, fat, etc. The anthers of Lilium longituba contain a variety of carotenoids, most of which are cis-antheraxanthin esters, accounting for 91.7-94%. The anthers of Lilium contain 2.68% water, 4.17% ash, 21.29% protein, 12.43% fat, 3.61% starch, 11.47% reduced sugar, vitamin B1_443μg%, B2_1829μg%, pantothenic acid 306μg%, vitamin C21.2mg%, and β-carotene, etc.

【Function and indications】

Moistens the lungs and relieves cough, clears the heart and soothes the mind. It is used to treat long-term cough caused by lung disease, coughing up blood in sputum, clearing residual heat after fever, restlessness, palpitations, and confusion; and beriberi and edema. (1) Moistening the lungs and relieving cough: It is used for cough and hemoptysis caused by dry lung or yin deficiency, and is often combined with Fritillaria cirrhosa. (2) Clearing the heart and calming the mind: It is used to treat residual heat after febrile disease, insomnia, and confusion, and is often used with Rehmannia root.

① "Ben Jing": "It treats abdominal distension and heartache caused by evil qi. It promotes urination and defecation, and replenishes the middle and strengthens the qi."

② "Bie Lu": "It can eliminate edema, distension, fullness, cold and heat, pain in the whole body, and breast difficulty. It can also relieve sore throat and stop nose and tears."

③ "Medicinal Properties": "It can eliminate the urgency, fullness and pain under the heart, treat beriberi, hot cough and reverse cough."

④ "Dietary Therapy Materia Medica": "It is used to treat jaundice caused by anxiety."

⑤ "Rihuazi Bencao": "It calms the mind, calms the gallbladder, improves the will, and nourishes the five internal organs. It treats epilepsy, crying, screaming, palpitations, kills poisonous gas, and cures breast abscesses, back abscesses and various sores and swellings, and treats postpartum blood stasis."

⑥ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It is used to treat lily disease after severe typhoid fever."

⑦ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can eliminate epidemic cough and vomiting."

⑧ "Introduction to Medicine": "Treats pulmonary tuberculosis and lung abscess."

⑨ "Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica": "Clears phlegm and fire, replenishes deficiency."

⑩ "Common Chinese Herbal Medicines in Shanghai": "It is used to treat lung heat cough, dry cough, chronic cough, fever after fever, and irritability."

【Usage and Dosage】

For internal use: decoct in water, 0.3-1 liang; steam or cook into porridge. For external use: mash and apply.

【Selection】

①For persistent cough or sputum with blood: use equal parts of coltsfoot flower and lily (roasted or steamed). Grind the above ingredients into fine powder, add refined honey and make into pills as big as longan. Take one pill each time. Chew it carefully before going to bed after a meal and swallow it with ginger soup. It is best to dissolve it in your mouth. (Baihua Cream from Jishengfang)

②Treat bronchiectasis and hemoptysis: 2 liang of lily, 4 liang of white jelly, 2 liang of clam powder, and 1 liang of Stemona japonica. Grind them into fine powder, add refined honey to make pills, each weighing 2 qian, take one pill each time, three times a day. (Handbook of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Xinjiang)

③To treat vomiting blood due to lung disease: mash the juice of new lilies, boil it with water, and it can also be cooked and eaten. (《Healthy and Simple Recipes》)

④ Treat heat in the chest and lungs in front of the chest, cough and sore throat, hemoptysis, aversion to cold. Use the thumb to follow the white flesh from the shoulder to the chest and feel like it is burned by fire: 3 grams each of Rehmannia glutinosa, Radix Rehmanniae glutinosae, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, 1 gram each of white peony root and licorice, 8 fen of Platycodon grandiflorum and Radix Rehmanniae, 1.5 grams each of Fritillaria thunbergii, Ophiopogon japonicus and Lilium bulbs. If you have a cough, take it on the first or second day of the month and add 20 Schisandra chinensis seeds. (Lily Gold Soup from Shen Zhai's Posthumous Book)

⑤ Treat lung congestion, heat and depression: 4 liang of new lily bulbs, add half a stack of honey, mix with the lily bulbs, steam until soft, and hold in your mouth a piece as big as a date from time to time, swallowing the saliva. (Sheng Hui Fang)

⑥ For treating lily disease with sweating: seven lilies (split), three liang of Anemarrhena asphodeloides (cut). First wash the lilies with water and soak them overnight. When the white foam comes out, drain the water and boil it with two liters of spring water to get one liter. Remove the residue. Boil Anemarrhena asphodeloides with two liters of spring water and get one liter. Remove the residue, then boil the whole water and get one liter and five he. Divide into portions and take warm. (Lily and Anemarrhena Decoction)

⑦To treat vomiting after lily disease: seven lilies (split), one egg yolk. First wash the lilies with water and soak them overnight. When the white foam comes out, drain the water and add 2 liters of spring water, boil it down to 1 liter, remove the residue, add egg yolk, stir well, boil for 5 minutes, and drink it while warm. (Lily and Egg Soup)

⑧For the treatment of lily disease after diarrhea: seven lilies (split), three liang of talcum powder (crushed and wrapped in cotton), one piece of magnetite as big as a bullet (crushed and wrapped in cotton). First wash the lilies with water and soak them overnight. When the white foam comes out, drain the water and add two liters of spring water to boil and take - liter. Remove the residue. Also use two liters of spring water to boil talcum powder and magnetite and take - liter. After removing the residue, add the two liters of spring water and boil again to take - liter and five he. Divide them into portions and drink warm. (Talc Daizhe Decoction)

⑨To treat lily disease without vomiting, diarrhoea and sweating, and the symptoms remain the same as before: seven lilies (split), one liter of Rehmannia glutinosa juice. Wash the lilies with water and soak them overnight. When white foam comes out, drain the water and boil it with two liters of spring water to get - liter. Remove the residue and boil it with yellow juice to get one liter and five he. Divide into portions and take warm. Do not take it again when you are ill. Your stool should be as white as lacquer. (Lily and Rehmannia Decoction)

⑩To treat fever caused by lily disease: 1 liang (roasted) lily and 3 liang of talc. The above is a powder. Take one square inch of it with water, three times a day. Stop taking it when you have a slight diarrhea. The fever will be eliminated. (Lily Talc Powder. The following formulas are from "Golden Chamber Essentials")

⑾For treating neurasthenia, restlessness and insomnia, take 50g of lily, 50g of Chinese jujube kernel and 30g of Polygala tenuifolia. Decoction in water. (Handbook of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Xinjiang)

⑿Treat lung abscess: boil or steam white lily and eat frequently. It is better to steam it with honey. (Lily Decoction from Experience Collection)

⒀To treat sores that do not break through: mash wild lilies with salt into a paste and apply it on the affected area. (《Bao Hui Ying Yan Fang》)

⒁To treat pemphigus and eczema: mash raw lily and apply it on the affected area. The affected area will be healed in one or two days. (Binghu Collection of Prescriptions)

⒂To treat deafness and earache: Grind dried lily into powder, take 2 qian of it with warm water, twice a day. (Qianjin Fang)

⒃Fresh lily juice: Take the juice of three fresh lilies and drink it with warm water, once in the morning and once in the evening. It can cure hemoptysis caused by tuberculosis and chronic bronchitis with emphysema.

⒄ Baihua Jian: 30 grams of lily and 15 grams of winter flower, decocted in water and taken, can cure lung heat cough, dry throat and thirst.

⒅ Lily and Anemarrhena Decoction: 30 grams of lily and 15 grams of Anemarrhena, decocted in water and taken orally, can be used to treat various symptoms of the late stage of febrile disease.

⒆ Lily Soup: 30 grams of lily and 10 grams of bird medicine, decocted in water and taken orally, can cure stomach pain that does not heal for a long time.

⒇ 50 grams of lily, 15 grams of Northern Adenophora, and 15 grams of crystal sugar, decocted in water and taken orally. It can cure dry cough, dry mouth and throat.

(21) Boil 20g each of lily bulbs and lotus root nodes in water, then add 10g of white hyacinth powder to the water. This can treat coughing up blood caused by lung yin deficiency and heat.

(22) Take 15g of lily bulbs, 10g of ophiopogon japonicus, 10g of schisandra chinensis, 10g of cordyceps sinensis, and 6g of fritillaria cirrhosa, decocted in water, once a day. It can treat cough, asthma, scanty sputum, dry throat, shortness of breath, and fatigue.

(23) 30g of lily bulbs, 15g of Adenophora scabra (10g of winter lily can also be added), and 15g of crystal sugar, decocted in water and taken once a day, can treat dry cough with little sputum, dry mouth and throat.

(24) Lily honey: Mix 100 grams of lily and 50 grams of honey, steam until cooked, and consume before bed. Suitable for neurasthenia, poor sleep, chronic cough, dry mouth and other symptoms.

(25) Steamed lilies: Wash the fresh lilies, steam them and eat them. You can take them continuously. It has a good therapeutic effect on hepatitis, stomach problems, anemia and physical weakness.

(26) Lily syrup: 100 grams of lily, appropriate amount of sugar, cook into soup for consumption. It is suitable for patients with late-stage pulmonary tuberculosis and febrile diseases, as well as those suffering from insomnia, palpitations, mental restlessness, pulmonary emphysema, lung abscess, phlegm, fire and cough with blood.

(27) Lily Stewed Meat: 100 grams of lily, 500 grams of lean pork (chicken or lamb can also be used), stew together and serve as a side dish. It is suitable for people with weak bodies and patients with chronic bronchitis and edema for conditioning and tonic purposes.

(28) Lily porridge: 50 grams of lily and 100 grams of glutinous rice, cook together and add rock sugar for seasoning. It has the effects of moistening the lungs and relieving cough, nourishing the heart and calming the mind. It is suitable for chronic bronchitis, dry cough caused by lung heat or lung dryness, as well as tuberculosis, long-term cough, poor sleep, irritability, emphysema, hemoptysis, menopausal syndrome in women, neurasthenia and other symptoms. People with weak spleen and stomach or those suffering from cold and cough should not eat it.

(29) Lily porridge: Take appropriate amounts of lily, lotus seeds, and coix seeds, cook them together into porridge, and add rock sugar or white sugar for seasoning. It has nourishing, calming, stomach-benefiting and lung-moistening effects. It is suitable for various symptoms such as weakness, palpitations, loose stools, and beriberi.

(30) Facial syndrome (restlessness, confusion, and incoherent speech after typhoid fever). If sweating has already occurred, use lily bulbs, soak them in water overnight, and boil them with spring water the next morning to get one liter. Also use three liang of Anemarrhena asphodeloides, add water twice and boil it to get one liter. Boil lily juice and Anemarrhena juice together into one and a half liters, and take it in divided doses. This recipe is called "Lily and Anemarrhena Decoction". If vomiting has occurred, use seven pieces of Baiquan, soak them in water overnight, and the next morning boil two liters of spring water to take one liter, add one egg white, and take it in two doses. This recipe is called "Lily and Egg Soup". If you have had diarrhea, use seven lilies, soak them in water overnight, and boil them with two liters of spring water the next morning to get one liter. Also use one liang of magnetite and three liang of talcum powder, add two liters of water and boil them to get one liter. Then boil them together with the lily juice until it becomes one and a half liters, and take it in two doses. The name of this recipe is "Lily Daizhe Soup". If there is no sweating, swallowing or defecation, use lilies, soak one in water first, and boil it with two liters of spring water to get one liter the next morning; also use one liter of Rehmannia glutinosa juice, boil the two juices together to make one and a half liters, and take it in two doses. The name of this recipe is "Lily and Rehmannia Decoction". If the disease has turned into polydipsia, soak one liter of lily in half water overnight, use the sweat to warm the patient and then have the patient eat white soup cakes. If the disease has turned into a fever, use one liang of lily and three liang of talcum powder, grind them into powder, take one spoonful with water, and the effect will be seen after a slight diarrhea. If the disease has turned into abdominal distension and pain, fry the lily into powder and take one spoonful each time with water. Take twice a day.

(31) Heat congestion in the lungs. Troublesome cough. Use 4 ounces of fresh lily bulbs, add honey and steam until soft, then hold a piece of lily bulbs in your mouth and swallow the saliva from time to time.

(32) Vomiting blood due to lung disease. Mash fresh lilies into juice and take it with water. You can also cook the lily and eat it.

(33) Rubella disappears. Use 2 liang of salt mud, 0.5 liang of lily, 2 qian of yellow ochre, 1 fen of vinegar and 4 fen of saliva, mash them and apply them.

(34) The sore is swollen but does not break through. Mash wild lilies and salt into a paste and apply it on the affected area.

(35) Impetigo. Use raw lily to mash and apply it, you will feel better in two or two days. Or you can dry lily flowers and grind them into powder, mix it with vegetable oil and apply it on the affected area, which is also effective.

(36) Intestinal wind and bleeding. There are lily seeds, stir-fry them with wine until they turn slightly red, grind them into powder, and take them with boiled water.

【Clinical Application】

External hemostasis

Take 15 grams of lily powder, add distilled water to make a 15% suspension, then heat to about 60°C and stir to make it into a paste. After it cools down, put it into a refrigerator at 2-4℃0 to freeze; after it is frozen into a sponge-like state, put it into a lime bucket, or wrap it with gauze and hang it up to allow it to thaw slowly (do not heat it or expose it to the sun); then squeeze out the water in the sponge, cut it into the required size and shape, put it in a bottle and steam sterilize it at 15 pounds of pressure for 15 minutes before use. Lily sponge is used clinically to treat epistaxis and to stop bleeding after operations such as nasal polypectomy and partial resection of the middle and inferior turbinate. According to observations of more than 100 cases, the hemostatic effect is good. The lily sponge begins to dissolve in the nasal cavity within 3 hours and completely disappears within 14 hours. It can be absorbed by the tissue without any adverse allergic reaction.

【Dos and Don’ts】

Those suffering from wind-cold, phlegm cough, and loose stools due to cold should not take it.

① "Ben Jing Feng Yuan" says: "Those with weak qi and cold in the middle qi and loose stools should avoid it."

② "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It is not advisable to use it immediately when a cough first occurs."