Ginseng antler
Ginseng antler is a commonly used medicine in traditional Chinese medicine, which is warm, bitter and slightly sweet. Treat serious illness, chronic disease or massive hemorrhage collapse, spleen and stomach weakness, sexual dysfunction, etc. Has the effects of strengthening heart, calming nerves, lowering blood sugar, relieving fatigue, and inducing diuresis. Due to the different processing methods and producing areas, the name and efficacy of processed ginseng are also different.
Taking method
Although ginseng is good, it should be used with caution, and excessive use will also damage the body. Strong and healthy people don't need to take it indiscriminately, and it is not suitable for cold and fever, yin deficiency and excessive fire, hemoptysis and vomiting blood, acute hepatitis, hypertension with hyperactivity of liver yang, menstrual period of women, and healthy children, especially young women. In addition, the method of taking ginseng should be based on the principle of small amount and multiple times. Unless critically ill patients need high-dose treatment, it is generally advisable to take 2 ~ 8g each time, and the daily dose should not exceed 20g. Old people and patients with chronic diseases should take a small amount for a long time. It is better for some patients with chronic diseases to take ginseng based on syndrome differentiation. For example, for patients with hyperlipidemia and coronary heart disease, people can participate in the compatibility of drugs such as Tianqi and Hawthorn, which can not only play a nourishing role, but also have a significant effect on lowering blood lipid and dilating coronary arteries. Another example is ginseng combined with Schisandra chinensis to treat chronic bronchitis and asthma. Salvia miltiorrhiza has a good effect on treating diabetic complications and palpitation.
When buying sun-dried ginseng, the main root is round, the wrinkles are thin and deep, the body is light, the quality is hard and brittle, the cross section is yellow and white, it is powdery, with chrysanthemum lines, and the skin is grayish yellow, which is full and complete with few branches. Red ginseng is the top grade, the main root is thick and full, wrinkle-free, reddish brown, translucent, hard and brittle, flat in section, horny and fragrant; There are horizontal stripes on the upper part of the main root of ginseng, and the reeds are long, thin-skinned, with punctate fiber marks by acupuncture, white cross-section and chrysanthemum patterns. When taking ginseng at ordinary times, if you have dizziness, palpitation, insomnia and other symptoms, you should stop taking it and recover slowly from time to time. If severe poisoning symptoms such as convulsion, startle, obviously slow heart rate and dyspnea occur, you should seek medical treatment in time, or use licorice and sugar water instead of tea to detoxify.
Velvet antler (of young deer)
The source is the ossified young horn of male sika deer or red deer. The former is called. Velvet antler (yellow velvet antler)? , the latter said? Velvet antler? .
Origin of velvet antler: mainly produced in Jilin, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Hebei, Sichuan and other provinces, with excellent quality.
Pilose antler: mainly produced in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia and other provinces.
There are two methods of harvesting and processing: sawing and chopping.
Sawed velvet: velvet antler is sawed off in summer and autumn, immediately processed, dried in the shade or dried in the sun.
Chop the velvet: cut off the deer head, then saw off the velvet together with the skull, scrape off the residual meat, tighten the scalp and cook.
Blanch, dry in the shade or dry in the sun.
Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum slices are divided into thick slices and ultra-thin slices.
Processing of (1) thick piece (raw velvet piece)
The processing is relatively simple. Put the incision in Chinese liquor for 30 minutes to 65,438+0 hours. Through capillary siphonage, velvet antler is soaked in Chinese liquor, then steamed on a steamer until velvet antler becomes soft, and then cut into raw velvet slices with a thickness of about 65438±0mm with a special cutter, and packaged and sold in different grades.
(2) ultra-thin slice processing
1. Wash the dried velvet antler, cut it into several sections according to the degree of ossification, soak it in clear water for 30 minutes to make the dried velvet antler fully absorb water, and then put it in a cage for 2-3 hours.
2. Remove the skin from the steamed antler, cut it into 4-6 strips longitudinally according to the thickness of the antler, and dry it at 90℃ 1-2 hours.
3. Soak the dried shredded pork in egg white 12 ~ 24 hours, put them together after fully absorbing the egg white, wrap them in white cloth and tie them tightly, then steam them repeatedly for 3 times, and tie them tightly after each steaming.
4. Take out the white cloth, wrap it with velvet or deerskin, then wrap it with white cloth, steam it repeatedly for 3 times, and wrap it tightly, so that the velvet strips are integrated with velvet or deerskin.
5. Take out the white cloth to dry, so that the velvet strip is hard but not brittle, soft and hard, and elastic.
6. Planing: clamp the broken strips with a special fixture, plane the broken strips with a thickness of 7 ~ 10 micron on a planer, clamp them with paper with good water absorption, flatten them with a pressurizer, and then pack them.
Classification of velvet antler slices
Deer antler slices: round in appearance, fluffy, translucent, slightly shiny, crisp, slightly fishy and slightly salty. Deer antler tablets are also called blood tablets (wax tablets), powder tablets and old horn tablets. The antler pieces at the tip of the horn are blood pieces, the middle and upper parts are powder pieces, and the lower parts are old horn pieces.
Fleece:
(1) What is the customary name of the pile tip? Blood tablets? ,? Wax flake? The section is light brown or yellowish white, translucent and slightly shiny.
(2) What is the customary address of the middle and upper paragraph? Egg yolk tablets? The section is yellow-white or pink-white, with tiny honeycomb pores in the middle.
(3) The lower part of the customary name? Old Horn? , the surface is white or pale white, there are honeycomb pores in the middle, the skin is boneless or slightly boneless, and the periphery is gray and hard.
Deer antler tablets:
(1) Wax flake? It is round and thin, with gray-black section, beige center, translucent, slightly shiny, thick skin, boneless, gray-black surrounding and tough.
(2) Slices of vermicelli and old cornflakes are gray-black, with gray-brown center and honeycomb holes, with boneless or slightly bony skin, gray-black periphery and crisp texture.
Blood wool and blood wool
Bleeding velvet
After the velvet antler is sawed off every year, the processing is divided into two major processes: scalding and drying. The purpose of scalding velvet antler is to make it boil and fry, and drain the blood of velvet antler with backwater; The purpose of drying velvet antler is to make it dry and easy to store. The principle of ironing velvet is that the velvet blood will remain liquid at a proper temperature, and will not cool and solidify, so that the blood in velvet will continuously seep from the kerf into warm water, and the warm water will be kept at 40℃ until the kerf bubbles and no blood is discharged, and then it will be dried.
Blood velvet
Immediately seal the incision of velvet antler with a red-hot soldering iron so that the blood of velvet antler does not flow out, and then put it into an oven to dry. Black, with the appearance of blood velvet. There are obvious traces of blood vessels on the skin at the bottom of velvet. Red velvet antler does not bleed during processing.
Composition and efficacy of pilose antler
Pilose antler contains glycine, vitamin A, adenosine triphosphate, ribonucleic acid, lecithin, cholesterol, cephalin, estradiol, estrone, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, colloid and so on 16 kinds of amino acids. Pilose antler has the functions of strengthening the body, promoting growth and development, improving the working ability of the body, improving appetite and sleep, promoting the regeneration of red blood cells, promoting wound healing, strengthening the heart and promoting diuresis.
Pilose antler is sweet, salty and warm in nature, and has the functions of strengthening yang and tonifying kidney, nourishing essence and blood, strengthening bones and muscles, regulating chong and ren, and protecting sore and toxin. It can improve erectile dysfunction, nocturnal emission, infertility due to uterine cold, anorexia, dizziness, tinnitus, deafness, cold pain in the back, weakness of muscles and bones, metrorrhagia, leukorrhagia, gangrene and other symptoms.
Velvet antler warms and helps yang, and it is forbidden for those with yin deficiency and hyperactivity of yang and internal heat.
Edible method of pilose antler
1 How to eat Take 5g of pilose antler, jujube 1 piece, ginger 1 piece and a little yellow wine, put them in a cup with a lid, add half a glass of water, cover them tightly, and then put them in a pot and add water to stew. Boil and simmer 2? 3 hours, you can use it (when the first consumer has dry mouth, jealousy, rapid heartbeat and other reactions, you should stop eating, not tonic. For asymptomatic patients, the dose is gradually increased to10g every other solar eclipse; Patients with hypertension and heart disease should follow the doctor's advice when eating).
How to eat 2? Take 10 piece of wool? 20g, stewed with chicken (pigeon, lean pork), jujube or other condiments for 3? Five hours, then dinner.
How to eat 3. Soak the chopped Lentinus edodes in 500ml liquor with a temperature of over 50 (v/v) for two weeks, and take 10 every day? 25m 1, three times a day.
Method 4: Chinese herbal medicines such as pilose antler log, ginseng 10g, Lycium barbarum 15g and Schisandra chinensis 10g are soaked in 50. (v/v) or above
In 500ml white wine, take it; Or powder into powder for eating; Or pulverizing into powder, mixing with other Chinese herbal medicines, and encapsulating; Or slice and chew (if young people who are not yang-deficient take this product, it may cause side effects such as systemic dryness and heat, nosebleeds, dry mouth and cleft lip, so young friends should use it with caution according to their own conditions).
Lu Weiwei
It takes about 5 minutes to explain the knowledge of deer tail.
Deer tail source: dried tails of sika deer and red deer in Cervidae.
Deer's tail is a collection of deer's yin and blood essence, which is famous? Yang Qi gathers in the corner, while Yin blood gathers in the tail? . Cut and take it out from the tail vertebra of deer, remove the tendons, residual meat and fluff, sew it with thread, and then hang it up and air dry naturally.
Deer tail is rich in protein, colloidal calcium lactate, vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin b 12, magnesium and zinc.
Efficacy: strengthen waist and kidney, tonify deficiency, strengthen physical strength and eliminate fatigue.