As the saying goes, "a good sleep is better than taking medicine". A good night's sleep without dreams is undoubtedly the most effective way for the laborious office workers to recover. High quality sleep can not only replenish energy, but also maintain the skin. However, many urban white-collar workers are tired at night, but their brains are still actively thinking about various plans. The next day, they are sleepy and tired, and their skin turns yellow. It seems that it is not easy to have a "beauty sleep"! Is there any medicine that can simulate the effect of "beauty sense"? In fact, in our daily life, there is a herbal medicine, which can not only beautify, but also calm and help sleep, and even help defecation. Its effect is comparable to "beauty sense". It is the common protagonist in the sugar water shop - Lily.
Effect of Lily herb
Why can lilies calm down and help sleep? Many people can't sleep, mainly because they have a lot of worries. Although they are a little sleepy, their hearts are always quiet. Therefore, they should clear their minds and get rid of troubles. The function of lily is to make up the water in the upper heart and lung of the human body. The water source in the upstream is sufficient, and the water discharged from the downstream is also more. Therefore, the urination will increase and the stool will be unobstructed, which can discharge the "heart heat" as the cooling liquid of the air conditioner will take away the heat. So eat the right lily, not only can help you sleep well, but also can moisturize your skin, not relative to "beauty + sleep"? But because Lily itself has catharsis effect, so usually spleen deficiency, easy diarrhea people should not eat a lot.
Understanding Chinese Materia Medica
"Shennong materia medica Jing" said Lily "sweet taste, flat nature.". Speaking of lilies, they all have white petals, just like lily bulbs. In the five elements theory of traditional Chinese medicine, white is the representative of "lung gold", so the white and flat lily has the function of moistening lung and lowering lung. Traditional Chinese medicine often says "lung and large intestine are exterior and interior", which means that lung and large intestine are a pair of good partners cooperating with each other. When the weather is particularly dry, people are also prone to dry stool. This is because the large intestine in the viscera needs to be replenished with body fluid by its good partner, the lung; when the external dryness evil consumes the "moisture" in the lung, the large intestine will also be affected. In this case, the upper part of the "dry hot" situation, not only the stool will dry, the amount of urine will also be reduced, just like the upstream river dried up.
Fresh lily tastes crisp and sweet, rich in juice, rich in moisture, it can moisten the skin and have a beauty effect, on the other hand, its attributes make it have the effect of "closing down", and can achieve the effect of defecation and urination by lowering Qi.
Use materia medica flexibly
Lily can be used to make soup, sugar water, and even fry. Here are some suggestions on its collocation: if it is mainly for whitening and moisturizing, you can add Tremella fuciformis to boil sugar water together; if you want to play a laxative effect, you can directly use lily to boil water or steam over water, and then add a little honey to drink; if the main purpose is to soothe the mind and help sleep, it is recommended to try Lily egg yolk soup.
The edible method of Lily
Lily egg yolk soup
Materials: dried lily 20-30g, a fresh egg, appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Practice: dry Lily bubble hair, wash to foam, put into a casserole, add about 300ml of water to cook, egg white, put the egg yolk into the pot, boil and add rock sugar seasoning, can be eaten; if it is fresh lily, it is best to first boil water or steam over water to remove the sour taste. If you have a strong heart, you can cook it with lotus seeds that don't lose their cores.
Stewed dried lily with radish and beef brisket
Material Science
Raw materials: carrot 50g, beef brisket 150g, dried lily 50g, tomato paste 50g, ginger 10g, beef bone soup 1500g.
Seasoning: 5 g salt, 3 G chicken essence, 1 g Sugar, 1 g pepper.
practice
1. Cut the beef brisket and blanch. Cut the carrots and wash them. Slice the ginger and set aside.
2. Add beef bone soup, tomato sauce, ginger slices, beef brisket, dried lily, bring to a boil over high heat and simmer for 35 minutes. Add carrots and simmer for 10 minutes to taste.
effect
Beef Brisket is rich in protein, a variety of amino acids, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, nicotinic acid and calcium, iron, phosphorus and other nutrients, has the effect of strengthening the body. Dried lily has the effect of moistening lung and relieving cough.
Snow snail with lily
Material Science
Main ingredients: konjac vegetable snow snail, fresh lily, American sweet corn, green and red pepper
Seasoning: vegetable oil, salt, mushroom essence, water lake powder
practice
1. Open the snails and wash them. Blanch them in boiling water and remove them for later use.
2. Thaw sweet corn and set aside.
3. The fresh lily is broken into pieces, and the green and red peppers are cut into small prisms.
4. Heat the pot with a little oil, put the lily, green and red peppers in the pot, stir fry until it is cut off, set aside.
5. Then put a little oil in the pan and stir fry the sweet corn and the boiled vegetable snail together.
6. Then add the lily, green pepper stir fry, add salt, mushroom essence.
7. After adjusting the taste, add a little water starch to thicken, stir fry well, and then you can get out of the pot.
