It is best to choose fruits with large shape, high sugar content, compact meat and less juice. Fruit appearance should be neat, 89% mature, no moth, rot, peach gum. Wash the silt and peach hair on the fruit surface with flowing water. Cut the fruit along the suture line with a stainless steel fruit knife, break the fruit in the opposite direction with both hands, and remove the peach core with a digging knife. Blanch in boiling water for 5 ~ 10 minutes, then take out and drain. Put the cut surface of the peach upward into a drying tray, put it into a sulfur fumigation room and fumigate for 4-6 hours. Every ton of fresh fruit needs about 3 kilograms of sulfur. Spread the sulfur-smoked fruit on the bamboo plaque, expose it to the sun, turn it over frequently, and speed up drying. When 60% to 70% is dry, put it in the shade and soften it for 2-3 days, then sun it again until it is completely dry. At this time, the water content should be 15 ~ 18%. Take out the unqualified peach slices and put them in a closed storage room for 3 weeks, so that the moisture in all parts is uniform and the texture is suitable for soft state. Can be packed in sacks, bamboo baskets or mats.

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In addition to natural drying, artificial drying can also be carried out, that is, the peach fruit is blanched in 1 ~ 2.5% NaOH hot solution for 30 ~ 60 seconds, peeled, washed, steamed for 5 minutes, fumigated with sulfur 1 hour, and then sent to a drying room, with the temperature controlled at 55 ~ 65℃ and dried1hour.

III: Bi Tao Bi Taogan, drug name. See "New Ginseng Pieces". Alias dried peach, peach slave and yin peach. It is the immature fruit of peach or apricot in Rosaceae. Sweet, slightly warm. Astringe sweat, stop bleeding and relieve pain. Treat night sweats, hematemesis, bleeding during pregnancy and stomachache. It is the young fruit of peach or mountain peach in Rosaceae.