The most well-known blood-nourishing Chinese herb—Ejiao. It not only nourishes the blood but also stops bleeding, used to treat bleeding and blood deficiency. Find taking Ejiao alone too rich and cloying? Let's learn about the preparation and effects of Ejiao wine.
Yellow Wine Ejiao
Recorded as a superior herb in the "Shennong Ben Cao Jing": Ejiao is sweet and neutral in flavor. It governs pain in the heart and abdomen, internal bleeding, extreme fatigue, a sensation of chills as in malaria, pain in the lower back and abdomen, soreness and pain in the four limbs, stops bleeding in women to secure the fetus, and when taken for a long time, it makes the body light and strengthens Qi. Another name is Fu Zhi Jiao. The famous physician said: It is made by boiling cowhide in Dong'e, from Dongjun Commandery.
The "Ben Cao Gang Mu" describes it as "harmonizing the blood and nourishing Yin, expelling wind and moistening dryness, resolving phlegm and clearing the Lungs, promoting urination, and regulating the Large Intestine." Clinically, it is currently used mainly as a Yin-nourishing, blood-tonifying, Lung-moistening, and blood-stopping herb.
Ejiao
【Source】 "Sheng Ji Zong Lu"
【Ingredients】 400g Ejiao, 1.5 liters of Yellow Wine.
【Preparation】 Pound the Ejiao into pieces, place it in the Yellow Wine, and simmer it slowly over low heat until it melts. Then, bottle it for later use.
【Effects】 Tonifies the blood, Yin-deficiency cough, dizziness and palpitations, consumptive coughing with blood, hematemesis, and metrorrhagia. For long-term coughing with yellow phlegm or phlegm streaked with blood, and other conditions such as tuberculosis.
【Usage】 3 times daily, 10-30ml each time.
Yellow Wine
Yellow wine is warm in nature, with a sweet, bitter, and pungent flavor, and is considered toxic and very hot. It has a fragrant aroma and enters the Heart, Liver, Lung, and Stomach meridians. It can both tonify and disperse, promoting the action of other herbs. It has the effects of invigorating blood and unblocking the collaterals, dispelling cold, and expelling wind. It can treat wind-cold pain, muscle and tendon spasms, chest obstruction, and cold pain in the chest and abdomen. Drinking Yellow Wine can not only increase appetite, improve mood, and bring comfort to the body, but it also has health benefits. Moderate, regular consumption helps promote blood circulation, boost metabolism, and has effects of nourishing blood and beautifying the skin, relaxing muscles and invigorating blood, strengthening the body, and prolonging life.
A Note of Care: Yellow wine can reduce the cloying nature of Ejiao, making the tonification effect non-cloying. Yellow wine is a type of alcoholic beverage made from raw materials such as rice, millet, black rice, corn, and wheat. It is produced by steaming the material, mixing with wheat yeast, rice yeast, or a fermentation starter, and then undergoing saccharification and fermentation.
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