What is Jiulong Beimu? Authentic Sichuan Jiulong County Specialty: Jiulong Fritillaria
Content Summary:Do you want to know what Jiulong Fritillaria is? This article is a detailed introduction to the special product of Jiulong County, Sichuan Province - Jiulong Fritillaria. It was compiled and edited by the editorial team of China Specialty Network after reviewing and collecting relevant information about Jiulong Fritillaria. The full text takes about 4 minutes to read, mainly including the basic introduction of Jiulong Fritillaria and its nutritional value? What are the product features of Jiulong Beimu? The production method of Kowloon Fritillaria, etc.
Basic Introduction to Jiulong Fritillaria
Jiulong County, Sichuan Province has abundant medicinal resources, including 437 species of traditional Chinese medicinal materials, with Cordyceps sinensis, Fritillaria cocos, and Anemarrhena chinensis being the most precious. Various edible mushrooms, mainly including matsutake, have significant economic value.
Fritillaria is a perennial herbaceous plant, and its bulb is used for medicinal purposes. It is named after its shape. The "Compendium of Materia Medica Annotations" says: "It looks like a cluster of Fritillaria seeds," so it is called Fritillaria. It can relieve cough and phlegm, clear heat and disperse knots. What is the nutritional value of Jiulong Fritillaria? Sichuan Fritillaria has a bitter and sweet taste, with a slightly cold nature; Returning to the lung and heart meridians; Moisturizing and dispersing, decreasing but increasing slightly; Has the effects of clearing heat and resolving phlegm, moistening the lungs and relieving cough, dispersing nodules and reducing swelling; Indications: Long term cough caused by deficiency and fatigue, cough caused by heat and dryness in the lungs, purulent discharge from lung abscess, scrofula tuberculosis, breast abscess, and sores. What are the product features of Jiulong Beimu? Pine shells are conical or nearly spherical in shape, with a height of 0.3-0.8cm and a diameter of 0.3-0.9cm. The surface is almost white. The outer scale leaves have two petals, with vastly different sizes. The larger petal tightly embraces the smaller petal, while the uncovered part is crescent shaped, commonly known as "embracing the moon in the arms"; Top closed. There are cylindrical shaped buds with slightly pointed tips and 1-2 small scale leaves inside. The tip is blunt or slightly pointed, the bottom is flat, slightly concave, and there is a gray brown bulb disk in the center, occasionally with residual fibrous roots. Hard and brittle in texture, white in cross-section, rich in powder. The air is faint and the taste is slightly bitter.
The green shell is shaped like a flattened sphere, with a height of 0.4-1.4cm and a diameter of 0.4-1.6cm. The outer layer of scales consists of two lobes of similar size, which are relatively closed and cracked at the top. 2-3 inner buds and small scale leaves, as well as a slender cylindrical residual stem.
The reed shell is conical in shape, with a height of 0.7-2.5cm and a diameter of 0.5-2.5cm. The surface is white (white reed shell) or light brownish yellow (yellow reed shell), and some have brown spots. The outer scales have two lobes, similar in size, with a slightly pointed top and a slightly pointed or blunt base.
Method of making Jiulong Fritillaria
1. Slice the pear (fruit), crush the Fritillaria into powder, put it in water, and then pour in the Fritillaria and cook it together. Cook for 30-40 minutes. Drink the pear and soup together, preferably with some rock sugar or honey (because rock sugar is cool and honey has a moisturizing effect on the lungs)
2. Use red pear, remove the top of the red pear, put the Fritillaria in and cover it, and cook with 30g of white fescue and 15g of tangerine peel. When the pear is stewed, eat the pear and Fritillaria together, and drink the medicinal juice together.
3. Take the powder of Fritillaria cocos and take it directly with plain water.