Taoist health preservation begins with nourishing the kidney. Kidney governs water, its color is black, black sesame is black, and the best product for nourishing kidney is black sesame. There are three kinds of sesame: black, yellow and white, but the black sesame corresponding to the kidney color has better medicinal value and health-preserving function, and both yellow sesame and white sesame can only be used as general food. We often have people complain: "I ate a lot, but it didn't work?" To really learn to use sesame seeds for dietotherapy, there is a lot of knowledge.
Step 1: Wash to dry and precipitate and other impurities.
Wash sesame seeds in a basin and add water until the sesame seeds are less than 5cm. Make sure all the sesame seeds have been immersed in water, let stand for a while, and take out the dried sesame seeds floating on the water. When washed with water, the sesame seeds that can't float are full, and the sesame seeds that float are spoiled, infested or not full, so they can't be taken. Take out the black sesame seeds and put them in a spare basin, and wash them at least twice. If there is too much sediment, it needs to be cleaned until no sediment can be seen.
Step 2: steaming for the first time
Steamer, black sesame covered with gauze, each layer is about 6 kilograms of sesame seeds, depending on your own steamer, not too thick. Prepare enough water (good mountain spring water) to avoid dry pot, then wait for the air to come up, and then steam it with medium fire and low fire for 6 hours.
If you have the conditions at home, you'd better use a firewood stove.
Step 3: drying for the first time
Pour gauze into a dustpan, spread it evenly, turn sesame seeds every 1 hour according to the weather, and sun for 3 days or 9 hours.
Step 4:
Wash once, steam again, sun again, and repeat steaming and sun drying for 9 times, the sesame skin naturally falls off and the sesame turns dark gray. Repeat the above steps for eight times until steaming and drying for nine times.
Sunbathing during the day and steaming at night.
Step 5: Stir fry
Stir-fry black sesame seeds in an iron pan (clean the iron pan and pay attention to the heat). After frying, grind sesame seeds into powder with a stone mill, and the thickness is up to you.
Step 6: Mix honey.
Vitex negundo and Zizyphus jujuba are the best. Do not choose long pistil nectar, because it is alkaline and foamy. Melting honey with a copper spatula (melting honey, that is, heating honey, reduces the moisture in it, so that the meatballs can be preserved for a longer time and have a higher degree of adhesion. ) put honey in a cold pot and heat it with slow fire. If there is no obvious steam during refining, it is tender honey, and heating for a few minutes is medium honey.
Step 7: Rub pills.
When the honey is slightly cooled after refining, pour the refined honey into a container filled with black sesame seeds, stir it evenly like kneading dough, beat it 300 times, then knead the pills, each of which is about 10g, and pack it with wax paper. The prepared nine-steamed nine-sun black sesame honey pills need to be placed in the refrigerator at room temperature for three months and refrigerated for half a year.
The role of nine steaming and nine drying is mainly in two aspects:
1, which reduces the viscosity of the drug and makes it easy to digest. As we all know, no matter how good food, medicine and tonic are, the most important thing is digestion and absorption. Only effective digestion and absorption can play a role and supplement the body; If it can't be digested and absorbed, it is better to pull it out intact. If it accumulates in the body, it is phlegm poison, which is harmful to the body. Many tonics are "greasy" in nature, sticky and oily, and protein molecules are large, so they are not easy to digest and absorb. Modern people are basically weak in the spleen and stomach, and greasy things can easily get stuck in the body and become toxins. After nine steaming and nine drying, the oil and protein of macromolecules are decomposed into smaller molecules, which are easily digested and absorbed by ordinary people. Therefore, many people eat raw sesame seeds and other supplements that are not easy to digest and are prone to bloating, which has no effect, but it will be effective if eaten nine times.
2. Decompose the toxicity and impurities in the drug to make the drug more pure and peaceful. In ancient Chinese medicine, "nature, taste and gas" were used to describe the efficacy and nature, and it was believed that after nine steaming and nine dryness, the nature and taste of drugs could be purer and unnecessary miscellaneous tastes could be removed. Scientifically speaking, some toxic, allergic substances and impurities in drugs can be decomposed after long-term repeated boiling. After nine steaming and nine drying, the toxicity of the drug is controlled, with fewer side effects, purer efficacy and safer administration.
Nine steaming and nine drying black sesame honey pills use the purest sunshine and pure mountain spring water to evaporate the precious medicinal materials that have absorbed the essence of heaven and earth. This pure cyclic treatment of Yin and Yang, which combines Yin and Yang, can improve the properties of medicinal materials. Although it is invisible and intangible, the molecular formula can not be measured, but it should be very powerful.