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What degree of wine is most suitable for brewing medicinal liquor?
Generally speaking, it is better to soak medicinal liquor with drinking liquor with a temperature above 50 degrees, because it can kill germs, harmful microorganisms, parasites and eggs attached to Chinese herbal medicines to the greatest extent when soaking. Glass bottles and jars should be used as containers for soaking wine, instead of metal containers, so as to avoid the precipitation of toxic substances or toxic chemical reactions in metals.

In addition, the soaking time is mainly related to the texture of medicinal materials. Hard and precious medicinal materials take longer, and some even take about 2 months. For example, after soaking in wine, the color of the wine turns red, indicating that the drug effect has come out; If it is animal medicinal materials such as hippocampus and gecko, it takes a long time to brew, but because they may carry more bacteria, they should be drunk as soon as possible after soaking.

Classification of medicinal liquor

1, which is mainly used for expelling wind and removing dampness, dredging collaterals and relieving pain, strengthening tendons and bones, and treating arthralgia due to wind-cold-dampness, such as Wujiapi wine, papaya wine, tortoise and snake wine, Sanshe wine, rheumatism wine and Jin Shu Huoluo wine, rheumatism and analgesic wine, Eucommia ulmoides wine, etc., and is well known to the public.

2, mainly to strengthen the waist and warm the kidney or warm the kidney and strengthen yang, such as ginseng wine, ginseng multi-whip wine, palace tonic wine, deer tail wine, deer velvet wine, silkworm male tonic wine, body-strengthening medicinal wine, rejuvenation wine, etc.

3. Medicinal liquor for invigorating qi and blood, or tonifying both qi and blood, such as ginseng wine, Shenqi wine, Angelica wine, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata wine, longan wine, walnut wine, chinese wolfberry wine, Bazhen wine, Shiquan Dabu wine, tortoise Yang Rong wine, Shaoxing wine, Yu Ye with golden spoon and Shierhong medicinal wine.

Refer to the above? People's Network-Medicinal liquor can't be soaked.