2. Wine contributes to the precipitation of effective components of drugs: wine is a good organic solvent, and most water-soluble substances and some substances that need to be dissolved in nonpolar solvents can be dissolved in alcohol. Many components of traditional Chinese medicine are easily soluble in alcohol. Alcohol also has good permeability, easy to enter the tissue cells of medicinal materials, play a role in dissolution, promote replacement and diffusion, and is conducive to improving the leaching speed and leaching effect.
3. Wine also has antiseptic effect: general medicinal liquor can be preserved for months or even years without deterioration, which brings great convenience to drinkers.
Common preparation methods of medicinal liquor
The common preparation methods of medicinal liquor mainly include cold soaking, hot soaking, percolation and brewing.
1. cold soaking method: chop up the medicinal materials, process them, put them into a porcelain jar or other suitable containers, add a specified amount of Chinese liquor, seal and soak them, and stir them 1 ~ 2 times a day, and after one week, stir them 1 time a week; * * * Soak for 30 days, take the supernatant, squeeze the residue, mix the squeezed liquid with the supernatant, add a proper amount of sugar or honey, stir and dissolve, seal, stand for more than 14 days, filter and fill.
2. Hot soaking method: Take the decoction pieces of medicinal materials, wrap them in cloth, hang them on the upper part of the container, and add white wine until they are completely immersed in the bag; Cover, soak the container in human water, slowly heat it with slow fire, soak it for 3-7 days and nights, take it out, let it stand overnight, take the supernatant, squeeze the residue, combine the squeezed liquid with the supernatant, add ice enamel or honey to dissolve it, let it stand for at least 2 days, filter out and package. This method is called suspension impregnation. This method was later reformed to take it out immediately after heating it in water until it boils, pour it into a vat, add enamel or honey to dissolve it, seal the vat, soak it for 30 days, collect the clear liquid, combine it with the squeezed liquid of the residue, let it stand for a proper time, filter and fill it.
3. Percolation method: pulverizing the medicinal materials into coarse powder, placing in a covered container, adding 60-70% leaching solvent of the coarse powder of the medicinal materials, uniformly wetting, and sealing for 65+/-05 minutes to several hours to fully expand the medicinal materials for later use. Then take a mass of absorbent cotton, moisten it with leaching solution, gently spread it on the bottom of the infiltration filter cartridge (cylindrical or conical funnel with outlet at the bottom, and control the liquid to flow out with piston), then put the wetted and expanded powder into the infiltration filter cartridge several times, and flatten it after each input. Cover it with filter paper or gauze after loading. When the solvent is slowly added to the percolating cylinder, the piston at the outlet of the percolating cylinder should be opened first to remove the residual air in the cylinder, and the piston should be closed when the solution flows out from the outlet. Continue to add the molten medium until it is several centimeters higher than the powder, cover it and let it stand for 24-48 hours to make the solvent fully permeate and diffuse. Then open the piston and let the leachate flow out slowly. If the concentration of leachate is to be increased, the primary leachate can also be used as a solvent for new powder for the second or multiple leachate. Collecting percolate, standing, filtering and filling.
4. Brewing method: using medicinal materials as raw materials to brew wine, and adding koji to brew medicinal liquor. For example, white bamboo wine and wolfberry juice wine recorded in Fang Yi are all brewed in this way. However, due to the difficulty in making this method and the complicated steps, it is rarely used by ordinary families now.
Matters needing attention
1. Moderate drinking: This is very important. There are many disputes about the harm of drinking, ancient and modern, at home and abroad, and the key to the problem lies in the amount of drinking. Drinking less is a good thing, drinking more is a bad thing. Shao Yong's poem day in Song Dynasty: "People are not good at drinking, but only like to drink it all;" People are either good at drinking, but it is hard to like the sum of drinking. If you drink too much, you will feel sore. If you get drunk after drinking, you will be embarrassed. The "harmony" here is moderation. Not too much, not too much. Too much harm to the body does not mean that you don't drink alcohol and can't play a health care role.
2. Drinking time: It is generally considered that drinking at night is not appropriate. "Compendium of Materia Medica" contains: People know to give up drinking early, but they don't know to drink alcohol late. When you are drunk, you sleep on a pillow, which hurts your eyes. The night gas converges, and the hangover with wine will clear the gas, relieve the spleen and stomach, stop the dampness and produce sores, and help the desire with fire, so there are many people who are sick. It can be seen that the reason for abstaining from drinking at night is mainly because the air converges at night. On the one hand, the wine you drink can't be dispersed, and the heat is trapped in the room, which has the disadvantage of hurting your eyes; On the other hand, wine is a divergent thing, which disturbs people's convergence and calmness at night and hurts people. In addition, there are two different views on drinking festivals. Some people think it's cold in winter, so it's suitable for drinking to warm the yang and dispel the cold.
3. Drinking temperature: On this issue, some people advocate cold drinks, while others advocate warm drinks. Advocates of cold drinks believe that alcohol is inherently hot, and hot drinking will be even hotter, which will easily damage the stomach. If you have a cold drink, use cold to heat it, so there is no danger of overheating. Zhu Zhenheng, a medical scientist in Yuan Dynasty, said: "Wine has three benefits". If the lung enters the stomach too much, it will be slightly warm, and the lung will get the cold in the warm first, which can benefit qi; The second time, the temperature in the cold can nourish the stomach. Cold wine is too late for people to drink. However, Xu Wenbi of A Qing Dynasty advocated warm drinking. He said that wine "had better be taken with warm clothes", "Hot drinking hurts the lungs" and "Cold drinking hurts the spleen". A more eclectic view is that although wine can be drunk warm, it should not be drunk hot. As for what is suitable for cold drinks and what is suitable for warm drinks, it can be treated differently according to personal circumstances.
4. Wine selection based on syndrome differentiation: According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, health drinking is more suitable for the elderly, those with slow blood circulation, those with weak yang, and those with cold resistance and blood stasis in the body. This is pure wine, not medicinal wine. Medicinal liquor has different properties such as nourishing blood and yin, warming yang and benefiting qi, resolving phlegm and eliminating dampness, regulating qi and promoting blood circulation, resolving food stagnation and so on, so it cannot be used universally. The weak use tonic wine, and the blood vessels are blocked with medicated wine that promotes qi, blood circulation and collaterals; For cold people, wine should be warm and clear for hot people. People who are interested in the health care of medicinal liquor had better make a choice under the guidance of a doctor.
5. Insist on drinking: The practice of any fitness method must be persistent in order to benefit for a long time, and drinking is also for health. The ancients believed that only by insisting on drinking can alcohol and gas communicate. Sun Simiao, a great medical scientist in the Tang Dynasty, said: "Anyone who takes medicine and drinks alcohol can never get rid of it if he wants to connect wine with qi." How much is harmony, don't get drunk and throw up, it will hurt people. "Of course, Sun Simao only drinks for years, and he insists on drinking for a lifetime. He may intend to stick to it for a while.
Commonly used medicinal liquor
Changshengguben wine, health wine, Duxue Pill soaked wine, Wujing wine, Shiquandabu wine, Baiyi Changchun wine, Dabu medicated wine, Champion red wine, Ginseng antler wine, Epimedium wine, chinese wolfberry wine, Duke Zhou centennial wine, Polygonum multiflorum rejuvenation wine, Acanthopanax senticosus wine, Vitex negundo wine, Chrysanthemum wine, Shen Ling Atractylodis Rhizoma wine, Poria wine, Polygonum multiflorum Jinyingying wine and Zhi Ding wine.