Yang said medicine food homology lock 
 
 
Cui Jianzhong Jiuquan city, gansu province hospital
Zhang Hanwu In jiuquan city, gansu province 2 
 
 
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        Lock Yang also calls the "lock" yan, also known as "drug". In the wild in the gobi desert, minus 20 ℃ environment. The most suitable lock Yang growth. Growth in the snow don't, don't frozen, no chlorophyll is a parasitic plant, more parasitic on white spines, Chinese wolfberry plant root, 30 ~ 40 cm high, fleshy, purple or dark red. Root is rich in starch, stout rhizome. Five, June each year, began to show ground, July and August are mature. 
 
        Yang is a kind of jiuquan specialty lock. Melon and municipal districts counties around the vast desert is rich in, and high quality for quantity, reputation. Due to the effect of the unique geographical and climatic conditions, melon states SuoYangCheng lock Yang is especially rare. The tang dynasty legend star Xue Rengui western expedition, tubo by armies in bitter melon states valley city, no reinforcements, no hay in the predicament. Troops dug lock Yang food, after eating spirits, most unusual, defeated the tubo soldiers rushed out of the encirclement, and for the court evidence repeatedly. Right after the play, smell that lock Yang save armed soldiers, then, the valley town called SuoYangCheng. 
 
        In fact, in the state of our melon, MAC, etc, have long excavation of lock Yang folk customs. Peel and slice fresh to eat, or dry, making tea, soaking in wine, medicine soup with Chinese cynomorium health care efficacy, there is "folk songs of the 393 lock Yang ginseng". People have dry lock Yang bubble water to drink, eat congee, steamed and other traditional folk custom. In recent years, and have business make it a lock, lock Yang Yang wine coffee and other products sold to all over the country. 
 
        Home used to eat "lock Yang cake", but it unhealthy to eat Fried foods, especially the elderly unfavorable feed more, production can be changed to "lock Yang filar silk" - lock Yang is different from other plants can not contact with iron, so can't cut with the knife, or it will turn black, can't eat. Therefore, only the bamboo chopsticks cut into the shape of the blade, used it to remove the husk of the lock Yang. Peel the lock Yang er is white. And with a little red, in a few minutes, Yang surface becomes rusty lock. Then, put it on the panel. Then, reoccupy GanZhang, put it into filamentous, then sprinkle flour mix, you can out of the pot, steam out of lock Yang Montana is pink, the taste is very good. Some sweet and a little acerbity, with oil fry, taste is more beautiful.
 
 
 
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