Lily Bulb

Dried lily bulb scales, rehydrated for soups and desserts.

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In traditional Chinese food therapy

Traditional context, not medical advice. This is how the ingredient is viewed in classical food-therapy cooking — not a treatment claim.

Lily bulb is traditionally classed as sweet and cool — one of the gentler cooling ingredients in the pharmacopoeia, associated with the Heart and Lung in classical food therapy.

Soak dried scales until pliable, then add to savoury broths or sweet soups. It softens into delicate, slightly crisp layers.

Source Chinese Pharmacopoeia 2020, Vol. I, 百合