Exploration of the Chinese people on Chinese Herbal medicine has gone through thousands of years of history. According to legend, ShenNong tasted a hundred herbs, and first explained the Medicine, he was well known as “Emperor of the medicine”.
Chinese medicine is mainly composed of herbal medicine (Roots, stems, leaves, fruits), animal medicine (Internal organs, skin, bones, organs) and mineral drugs. Botanicals accounted for most of the traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, also known as Chinese herbal medicine. The use of traditional Chinese medicine in China has reached about 5000 kinds of various, Pharmacy from all kinds of herbs even Countless. After thousands of years of study, forming an independent scientific – herbalism.
China is the birthplace of Chinese herbal medicine, there are about 12,000 kinds of medicinal plants in China and other countries do not have, in traditional Chinese medicine resources, we occupy a monopolistic advantage. Predecessors depth exploration, study and summarize of the Chinese herbal medicine and Chinese medicine, making the Chinese herbal medicine has been the most widely recognized and applied. One is to accord to traditional Chinese medicine experts’ prescription, the other is the method of tincture, For both methods, China has a lot of studying.
Chinese medicine is a great help for health, tincture is natural supplements, generally do not have side effects on the body.
Process of herb
Firstly, Cleaning.
Removing weeds, sediment and non-medicinal part. According to different requirements, some need to scrape off the skin, such as white peony; Some should be trimmed away rough skin, such as Cork; Some will be removed the reed head, fibrous roots and residual foliage, then grading them by size. Steamed, boiled some herbs containing starch or carbohydrate and phlegmatic is hard to dry, and some also contain certain ingredients make their own decomposition and conversion of the enzyme, such as heat treatment, the enzyme will lose its vitality, so it can maintain potency without deterioration.
Secondly, Cutting
The big one, which is not easy to dry, such as papaya, lime, bergamot, should be cutted and then dried; bark Herbs such as Eucommia, Magnolia, cinnamon, after picking should first cut into pieces, sheets or roll into a tube, and then dried.
Thirdly, Drying
The purpose of drying is to facilitate long-term storage for sparing, try to keep the crude drug appearance, odor, and the active ingredient content unchanged in drying process.
Forth, Dried in the sun
Drying the herbs by sunshine and outdoor air. The method generally applies to the one which are not required to maintain a certain color and does not contain volatile oil medicinal, Such as Coix, Arctium, Astragalus, Dan, Eucommia. The method is simple, but different herbs also different. When drying we should Spread herbs on the mat, and pay attention to the rain, dew and wind filling, we also should often flip it to promote them drying.
Lastly, Baking
When baking, we should control temperature, low temperature is not easy to dry, but the temperature is too high to affect quality, such as when baking rhubarb, the temperature should not exceed 60 ℃,if the temperature is too high the color will change in dark, which will affect the quality; When baking Flower herbs the temperature should not too high, such as the drying of Yinhua, the temperature in 38 ° C to -42 ° C is suitable.
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