What medicinal materials are generally better for soaking medicinal liquor? The function of (1) medicinal liquor
The functions of medicinal liquor include the dual functions of "the function of wine and the efficacy of medicine". Because each medicinal liquor is made of different Chinese herbal medicines, the efficacy of medicinal liquor is also different.
Generally speaking, medicinal liquor has a wide range of functions, ranging from nourishing medicinal liquor to medicinal medicinal liquor for eliminating pathogenic factors and treating diseases. For example, the health care and beauty medicated wine, which mainly tonifies deficiency and strengthens the body, has the main functions of nourishing qi and blood, warming kidney and strengthening yang, nourishing stomach and producing essence, strengthening heart and calming nerves, resisting aging and prolonging life. Medicinal liquor is mainly used to treat diseases, mainly to dispel wind and cold. Relieving cough and asthma, clearing away heat and toxic materials, nourishing blood and activating blood, relaxing channels and dredging collaterals, etc. Different diseases have different functions.
Medicinal liquor is made of wine and medicine. But the drugs are targeted and selective, and they are all added according to specific requirements. Therefore, different drugs mixed into wine have different medicinal liquor functions. Medicinal liquor, for example, is mainly used for preventing and treating diseases. It requires strict and meticulous formula and is specially designed for diseases. Nourishing medicinal liquor, although it has certain preventive and therapeutic effects on some diseases, mainly plays a nourishing and strong role in human body, promotes human health, is full of energy, and prevents evil spirits from attacking people. But there are also certain requirements, which are specially designed for supplementing deficiency and rectifying deviation and regulating yin and yang. Therefore, each medicinal liquor has different functions and application scope, which is difficult to describe. Please refer to the application section for the specific functions of each medicinal liquor.
Thus, the functions of medicinal liquor are varied. Its other main function, when wine is used as medicine, can neutralize or alleviate the medicinal properties of bitter cold medicine and avoid the bitter taste of taking medicine at ordinary times, which is also accepted by people. If there are many people who are good at drinking, they often use people's daily food to prepare medicinal liquor. It not only has medical function, but also has nourishing and health care function. It's a double-edged sword. It's really good to drink.
(2) Selection of medicinal liquor
Choosing medicinal liquor is very important. First of all, we should be familiar with the types and properties of medicinal liquor. Second, we should aim at the condition and meet the needs of the condition; Third, we should consider our physical condition; Fourth, we should understand the use of medicinal liquor.
1. People with deficiency of both qi and blood can choose Longfeng wine, pheasant tonic wine, Yishou tonic wine, Bazhen wine and Shiquan tonic wine.
2. People with weak temper can choose ginseng wine, Radix Angelicae Sinensis and Radix Astragali, longevity tonic wine, tortoise Angelababy wine, etc.
3. People with liver and kidney yin deficiency can choose Angelica wine, chinese wolfberry wine and Clam Ant wine. Round wine, etc
4. People with kidney-yang deficiency can choose goat tonic wine, Guilingji wine, ginseng antler wine, three-whip wine, etc.
5. Diseases such as wind-cold-dampness arthralgia and apoplexy sequelae. Can be selected from famous Chinese and foreign medicinal liquor, popular medicinal liquor and other symptomatic medicinal liquor.
6. Rheumatoid arthritis or muscle soreness caused by rheumatism can be selected from rheumatic medicinal liquor, wind-chasing medicinal liquor, rheumatic osteopathy liquor and Wujiapi liquor. If the symptoms of rheumatism are serious, papaya wine with mild medication can be used. Nourishing blood and treating wind wine; Such as rheumatism for many years, limb cup wood, hemiplegia, you can choose python wine, three snake wine, five snake wine and so on.
7. Patients with musculoskeletal injuries can choose traumatic injury wine and traumatic medicated wine.
8. People with impotence can choose multi-whip aphrodisiac wine, aphrodisiac wine and epimedium wine. Qingsongling medicinal oil, seal kidney wine, etc.
9. People with neurasthenia can choose Schisandra wine, Ningxin wine and Albizia Albizia bark wine.
10. Menstrual patients can choose female menstruation regulating wine, angelica wine, etc.
All these are not exemplified here. In short, medicated wine treats many diseases. Generally, you can refer to the prescriptions of medicinal liquor listed in this book and choose according to the symptoms.
In the prevention of diseases, the ancients and the people have long practiced, such as drinking chrysanthemum wine on the Double Ninth Festival, which can resist aging and prevent aging; Drinking bayberry wine in summer can prevent heatstroke; Drinking alpine plant wine regularly can prevent the formation of hyperlipidemia and reduce the occurrence of arteriosclerosis; Long-term drinking of acanthopanax bark wine and ginseng wine can strengthen muscles and bones, tonify qi and blood, strengthen body resistance and prevent diseases.
In short, the choice of medicinal liquor varies from person to person and from illness to illness. If you choose nourishing medicinal liquor, you should consider people's physique. For example, thin people often suffer from yin deficiency and blood deficiency, which is easy to get angry and hurt body fluid. It is advisable to choose medicinal liquor for nourishing yin and enriching blood. Obese people often have yang deficiency and qi deficiency, and are prone to phlegm and cold. It is advisable to choose medicinal liquor that tonifies the heart and calms the nerves. The choice of medicinal liquor based on treatment should be based on syndromes, and it is best to choose it under the guidance of traditional Chinese medicine. In short, it is necessary to choose the appropriate medicinal liquor in a targeted manner. Medicinal liquor can not only cure diseases, but also strengthen the body. This does not mean that every medicinal liquor can cure all diseases, and patients can take any medicinal liquor at will to get the effect. People who drink must choose carefully, recognize their illness and physical condition, have a clear purpose to choose, never use it for others, and drink it when they see wine.
How to brew medicinal liquor?
First, the efficacy of medicinal liquor
In the process of fighting diseases for thousands of years, the working people in our country have deeply realized that wine can dissolve the effective components of many plant medicines and animal medicines, and through the good functions of dredging meridians, promoting qi and blood circulation, the medicines can reach the affected area directly and receive curative effect quickly, so many medicinal wines have been created, which have the unique functions of health preservation, invigorating qi and nourishing blood, strengthening waist and tonifying kidney, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and expelling wind and activating collaterals. It has played a very good role in strengthening the body and preventing and treating diseases.
Medicinal liquor contains the dual functions of wine and medicine, but it is mainly used as medicine. As the saying goes, "wine is the best medicine", and wine itself also has the function of medicine; Moreover, the wine can completely dissolve the fat-soluble and water-soluble effective components in the medicinal materials, which greatly improves the efficacy. "Wine borrows medicine, medicine borrows wine", and wine and medicine can improve each other. If the drug alone can play a role of three points, then you can get six to eight points in the medicinal liquor. Moreover, after mixing wine with medicine, the strength of wine will be enhanced. Those who can drink half a glass of wine at ordinary times can only drink a mouthful of medicinal liquor.
Medicinal liquor contains different medicinal materials according to the condition or health care purpose. Medicinal liquor can be divided into animal medicinal liquor, plant medicinal liquor, animal and plant medicinal liquor and mineral medicinal liquor. Commonly used medicinal materials include ginseng, snake, wolfberry, velvet antler, deer penis, cordyceps sinensis, American ginseng and so on.
It should be noted that although medicinal liquor has many advantages, its alcohol content is harmful to some diseases, such as hypertension, stroke, liver and kidney diseases, diabetes, eczema and other skin diseases. Some infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis are not suitable for drinking medicated wine. In addition, drinking medicinal liquor is also prohibited for fever and hemorrhagic diseases.
Second, what kind of wine should be used for soaking medicinal liquor?
Soaking medicinal liquor is mostly white.
Generally speaking, it is advisable to choose wine with slightly lower alcohol content, such as yellow rice wine or low-alcohol liquor, to brew nourishing medicinal liquor. The selected medicinal materials are wrapped with gauze or scattered in containers such as ceramic jars with lids, glass jars with stoppers, etc., white wine or yellow wine is added according to the proportion required by the prescription, and sealed and soaked.
Generally speaking, it is better to choose wine with a temperature above 50 degrees, because the wine with a temperature above 50 degrees can kill germs, harmful microorganisms, parasites and eggs attached to Chinese herbal medicines to a great extent in the process of soaking, and can be drunk under safe conditions.
Different wines have little effect on the curative effect, and the degree and smell of wine are generally selected according to personal preferences. You can choose low-alcohol wine with a small capacity of 38 degrees; You can choose a high-alcohol liquor of about 52 degrees. Usually, Qu liquor is not selected, because Qu liquor is fermented by Qu, and the aroma of Qu contained in it will be mixed with the smell of drugs, which will produce a strange smell and make people smell uncomfortable. Usually, white dried or yellow wine is used, which is light and fragrant after being mixed with medicinal materials.
The advantage of soaking liquor in medicine is that it is not easy to deteriorate and has a long storage time. But in the south, wine is occasionally made with fruit wine, which has less alcohol content and less stimulation to human body. When making fruit wine, the cooking method is generally used-the medicinal materials are cooked and the residue is removed, and a proper amount of liquid medicine is mixed into the fruit wine for drinking.
3. What container should I use for soaking medicinal liquor?
Plastic products are not suitable for soaking medicinal liquor, because harmful substances in plastic products are easy to dissolve in wine and harmful to human body. It is best to use ceramics or glass bottles. At the same time, soaking medicinal liquor should also try to avoid sunlight or burning.
Glass bottles and crocks should be used instead of metal containers to avoid toxic substances escaping from metals or toxic chemical reactions.
The containers of medicinal liquor are mostly frosted glass bottles, which are easy to seal and prevent drug oxidation. Dark bottles are best. If you use a transparent bottle, be careful not to direct it in the sun.
Fourth, matters needing attention in soaking medicinal liquor
The soaking processing of medicinal liquor involves the selection of medicinal materials, the specific processing technology, and the correction of color and taste. Whether these problems are handled well or not will directly affect the health care effect of medicinal liquor and should be paid attention to.
The medicinal materials are soaked in wine and stored indoors at room temperature, but attention should be paid to sealing them from light and shaking them several times a day. This is called "cold soaking" and is the most commonly used method. There is also a "hot cooking method"-boiling herbs in wine can warm yang and relieve exterior syndrome. However, this kind of wine is volatile, which makes it low in degree and not suitable for long-term storage, but only for short-term use.
Medicinal materials can be put whole or cut into 3 ~ 5 mm pieces or segments, but they are rarely ground into particles. Because particles are easy to make the liquid medicine turbid, the light transmittance is not good, and the granular medicine dissolves quickly and has a large concentration. Only large particles will be used unless rapid dissolution is required. The ratio of medicine to wine is also particular. Generally speaking, the soaked medicinal materials account for about 1/3 of the total volume of medicinal liquor.
The soaking period starts from 1 week and should be shaken or stirred 1 time every day. After 1 week, it can be changed to 1 time every week. Generally speaking, the more times of shaking or stirring, the better the effect of leaching medicinal liquor. The soaking time is generally 30 days, and if it is 1 month or longer, the effect will be better. After soaking, it can be filtered and drunk. The residue can still be soaked in half of the original amount of alcohol again, so as to give full play to the efficacy of soaking medicinal materials.
Animal medicine should be stripped of internal organs and dirt, washed with clear water (the snake will be beheaded) and baked in a stove or oven to make it emit a faint fragrance. Baking can not only remove water, but also achieve the effect of sterilization and maintain the alcohol concentration of soaked wine. It can also make the effective components more soluble in wine and have a mellow feeling when drinking. All animal medicines that have deteriorated or become moldy should be discarded.
Plant medicine should remove impurities and sludge from medicinal materials to the maximum extent. The medicinal materials soaked in wine should be relatively dry to ensure the efficacy of medicinal liquor.
Any mineral medicine containing toxic components such as mercury, arsenic, chromium and lead should not be used for soaking wine. Many emperors of the Tang Dynasty in China, such as Emperor Taizong, ate pills and medicated wine containing lead and mercury to prolong their life and died!
The soaking time of medicinal liquor, some ancients or folks rumored that medicinal liquor should be soaked for several months to 1 year or more. I don't think it's necessary. Generally, you can soak 1 month. Sometimes, in order to let the effective ingredients escape faster, if the beauty is not considered, the medicinal materials can be chopped and soaked. In addition, the temperature has a direct impact on the soaking of medicinal liquor. The soaking time is shorter at high temperature and longer at low temperature.
When the color of medicinal liquor no longer deepens, it means that the effective components of the medicine have stopped oozing, and the concentration of medicinal liquor has reached the maximum, so it can be taken. Generally speaking, animal medicinal liquor can only be taken after soaking 1 ~ 2 weeks, while plant medicinal liquor can be taken for 3 ~ 5 days. Some precious medicinal materials can be soaked repeatedly. When the liquid level is still 1 inch before drinking, add new wine to continue soaking.
Do not take it in case of the following conditions, such as turbid texture, obvious floc, dark color, oil film on the surface, light wine taste and obvious rancidity taste.
Five, how to take medicinal liquor
When taking medicinal liquor, it is not advisable to add sugar or rock sugar, so as not to affect the curative effect. It is better to add a little honey, because honey is mild, which can not only reduce the irritation of medicinal liquor to the stomach, but also help to maintain and improve the efficacy. The dosage of medicinal liquor is generally one or two to one and a half cups at a time. Those who are not good at drinking can mix the medicinal liquor with yellow wine or cold boiled water and drink it according to the quantity. There is no time limit for taking nourishing medicinal liquor; It is best not to use medicinal liquor for treatment on an empty stomach or when eating; Anshen medicinal liquor is suitable for 1 ~ 2 hours before going to bed.