Planting of alpinia officinalis

Artichoke is also called Jerusalem artichoke, its tuber is rich in inulin, fructose poly substance, has a certain auxiliary effect on diabetes, can be pickled slightly spicy when eating. So, what is the cultivation of ginger?

First, what is the cultivation of ginger?

1. Seed preparation

Propagate with tuber, after harvesting tuber in autumn and winter, choose 20ml 25g tuber to sow, or store sand to prepare seed. Tubers of appropriate size can also be excavated and sown after soil thawing in spring.

2. Sowing seeds

Sowing takes place in spring. Hole sowing or trench sowing. The row spacing of the planting plant is 50 cm square. Planting holes to loosen the soil and sow seeds after applying base fertilizer, but the base fertilizer should not be too much. The sowing depth is about 10 cm. Cover Tuping hole after sowing.

3. Field management

The seedlings emerged about 1 month after sowing. After finishing the seedlings, fertilizing and watering properly. Then ploughing and weeding, and cultivating the soil into low ridges, not too dry can no longer be watered, until the tuber is expanded and then watered, according to the principle of "dry and wet". If the stem and leaf growth is too luxuriant, it is appropriate to take off the top to promote tuber expansion. Jerusalem artichoke rarely seen disease and insect damage, can not use pesticides, extreme drought may occur aphids, water spray can be eliminated.

4. Harvest

Harvest after autumn frost. After collecting and digging, wash the soil and put it on the market. For those planted in idle land, if you need to continue to plant, you can choose to leave small tubers buried in the soil during mining, and seedling and replenish seedlings after emergence and time in the following year.

What is the value of alpinia officinalis?

1. Edible value

(1) as a vegetable

① fresh tubers can be stir-fried, or fried with shredded meat, crisp and delicious.

② pickling: 50kg Jerusalem artichoke, wash and remove impurities, put it in a tile jar, put a layer of Jerusalem artichoke with salt, use 9kg salt, put it away and pour in some water. Pour the cylinder once after one day and once in the next two days. It can be eaten after about 15 days. Delicious flavor, can be used as a side dish, has a certain auxiliary effect on diabetes.

(2) as miscellaneous grains, feed or extract starch, alcohol, etc., aboveground stems can also be added working feed.

2. Medicinal value

Inulin is extracted medicinally for the treatment of diabetes. Root smashing external application to treat nameless swelling and mumps. Dietotherapy can also use 100 grams of Jerusalem artichoke tubers, wash and chopped, 100 grams of rice wash clean, add the right amount of water boiled into porridge, transferred into salt, sesame oil after consumption. It is suitable for people with diabetes, edema and poor urination.

Recent studies have found that alpinia officinale has a two-way regulatory effect on blood sugar, that is, on the one hand, it can reduce the blood sugar of patients with diabetes, on the other hand, it can increase the blood sugar of patients with hypoglycemia.

Studies have shown that ginger contains a substance very similar to the structure of insulin in the human pancreas. When urine sugar occurs, eating ginger can control urine sugar, indicating a hypoglycemic effect. When people develop hypoglycemia, it can also be relieved after eating ginger.

3. Other values

In Liaoning Province, China, there is a plant called "Guizi Ginger" (also known as alpinia officinalis). Ten days after it blossoms, the first frost will appear in this area. Therefore, people also call it "newspaper frost flower".