The Best Recipes of Medicinal Wine for Health Talking about Medicinal Wine and Health (I)

Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (SUTCM), professor, doctoral supervisor, vice president of the Chinese Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine (CSTCM), has been gradually used in medicine since the discovery of wine by human beings, and the name of wine is "sacrificial spirit" in the oracle bone inscriptions. Medicinal wine is a bright pearl in the treasure house of Chinese medicine, which is the accumulation of the experience of the Chinese people in fighting against diseases for a long time, and also a unique method of preventing and treating diseases and health care in the motherland, which is favored by the people because of its simple production and easy to use.

Medicinal wine has a history of thousands of years since ancient times, and through the continuous summarization and refinement of successive generations of medical scientists and health scientists, many effective prescriptions for medicinal wine have been accumulated. In addition to being used for disease prevention and treatment, these prescriptions are also a major feature of Chinese medicine and health care.

What is medicinal wine? Medicinal wine is a transparent liquid made from a combination of wine and Chinese herbs after certain processing, and it is a kind of health care drink. Medicinal wine belongs to the category of prepared wine in the national classification system of beverage alcohol, which is a liquor made from fermented wine, distilled wine or edible alcohol as the base wine, with edible animal or plant-based Chinese herbs added and processed by different techniques, such as soaking, boiling and steaming. However, in the traditional medicinal liquor preparation process, there are also brewed by adding suitable Chinese medicines during the brewing process.

Homemade medicinal wines should be made with white wine above 50 degrees

What kind of wine should be chosen as the soaking wine in the health-improving medicinal wines? Wine is a beverage made from rice, wheat, corn, sorghum, etc. and brewed with wine, and there are many types of wine due to the different conditions of raw materials and brewing process. Distinguished from the brewing process, wine is divided into two categories: distilled and non-distilled, the former can be seen in the general liquor, the latter yellow wine, rice wine, wine and so on. In ancient times, non-distilled spirits were initially used as the base for both health-improving medicinal spirits and medicinal spirits for treating illnesses. Tang's "Newly Revised Materia Medica" stipulates that "all wine sweet must be curved" and that "all wine alcohols are different, and only rice wine is used in medicine". It can be seen that the Tang Dynasty medicinal wine base wine is brewed with the quartz brewing rice wine, is a kind of non-distilled alcohol. Until the Qing Dynasty gradually popularized the use of distilled spirits, i.e., baijiu (shochu) as the base of medicinal liquor. In the 2010 edition of the Chinese People's **** and National Pharmacopoeia, it is stipulated that, "Liquor preparation refers to the clarified liquid preparation of drinking tablets extracted with distilled liquor." The liquor standards issued by the National Standards Administration include both liquor made from cereal raw materials and liquor made from potatoes and other raw materials. The Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China*** and of the State of China explicitly states that "the production of internal liquor preparations should be made from cereal liquors as raw materials." Visible, the production of medicinal wine should be selected cereal raw materials made of white wine for medicinal wine base wine.

Experts believe that the base wine for soaking medicinal wine is generally preferable to use 50 degrees or more drinking wine is preferable, so that in the process of soaking to a large extent in the soaking process to kill the adhering microorganisms, parasites and eggs in the soaked herbs to ensure the safety of the soaked medicinal wine. In addition, the concentration of soaking wine should also be selected and applied according to the functions of various medicinal wines. Generally speaking, the concentration of base wine used for tonic medicinal wines can be lower; the concentration of base wine used for blood circulation and blood circulation can be relatively higher due to the need of blood circulation and blood circulation for blood circulation and rheumatism. Therefore, the family should choose the base wine according to the function of the medicinal wine to grasp its moderation.

It can be seen that most of the base wines used in home-made medicinal wines are white wine or yellow wine or rice wine, especially white wine. Base wine concentration selection, in addition to considering the function of medicinal wine, should also take into account the individual differences in the amount of alcohol drinkers. The concentration of base wine for good drinkers can be higher, and the concentration of base wine for bad drinkers should not be too high, and low-degree white wine can be used. Prohibit the use of ethanol (alcohol) or methanol residual amount of high quality white wine immersion medicinal wine.