Alias red qu, dan qu, red rice, fuju qu, red rice, red groove

Chinese pinyin hong qu

English name Red rice

Latin botanical and animal mineral name Monascus purpureus Went.

attributed to the liver; spleen; stomach; colon meridian

function to activate blood circulation and eliminate blood stasis; strengthen the spleen and eliminate food

evidence from the "Drinking Meals Preparation", which was used for the production of yellow wine in Zhejiang Province, is made of what? It can also be artificially cultured with round-grained rice as culture medium to make it into red currant rice.

Resource distribution is distributed in Hebei, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Taiwan, Fujian, Guangdong and other places.

Animal and plant morphology mycelium a large number of branches, initially colorless, gradually changing to red, old purple-red; mycelium with transverse septum, multinucleate, containing orange-red particles. The mycelium is transverse, multinucleate, and contains orange-red granules. At maturity, it produces single or stranded conidia at the tips of the branches. Conidia are brown, (6-9) μm × (7-10) μm, and produce orange-red single spherical ascospores at the tips of additional hyphae; the ascospores are orange-red, subglobose, 25-75 μm in diameter, and contain multiple ascospores. The ascospores are spherical, containing 8 ascospores, and the wall of the ascospores disappears after maturity. The ascospores are ovoid or subglobose, smooth, transparent, colorless or reddish, (5.5-6)μm×(3.5-5)μm.

Classification of efficacy: medicine for activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis; medicine for invigorating the spleen

Taste: sweet; warm; nontoxic

Dosage: internal: in decoction of 6-15g; or in pills or powder. External use: appropriate amount, pounding compress.

Origin and Sources Chinese Materia Medica.