Zhi Mu is a famous Chinese herb. The dried rhizome of Zhi Mu is a perennial herb, which has the effect of nourishing Yin and lowering fire, moistening dryness and sliding intestines, diuretic and laxative. According to the different methods of concoction, it can be divided into Zhi Mu, Salt Zhi Mu, Fried Zhi Mu and Wine Zhi Mu. Let's take a look at how Zhi Mu is prepared!

Distribution of Zhi Mu

Zhi Mu is mainly distributed in Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Shaanxi, Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang and other places. It is also distributed in North Korea, with Hebei Anguo and Anhui Bozhou as the most famous places.

Effective effects of Zhimu

The flavor is bitter and cold.

Attributed to the lung, stomach and kidney meridians.

Effective in clearing away heat and fire, nourishing Yin and moistening dryness, treating fever and thirst, lung-heat and dry cough, bone vapor and tidal fever, internal heat and thirst, intestinal dryness and constipation.

1. Clearing heat and removing fire: used for high fever and thirst, often used with gypsum; for lung-heat cough, often used with Beimu.

2. Nourishing Yin and lowering fire: used for fever and night sweating due to Yin deficiency, often used with cypress and Radix et rhizoma.

Concoction method of Zhi Mu

1. Cleaning: remove impurities and wash.

2. Cutting: wash, moisten well, cut into thick slices, dry and remove dandruff.

3. Curing: take the mother slice, mix or spray with brine, stew through, put into a pot with a gentle fire and dry, take out, let cool. Each mother slice of 100 kilograms, with 2 kilograms of salt.

4. Stir-fry: take the mother-of-pearl and stir-fry until slightly charred.

5. Bran: the pot is heated, sprinkled with bran, smoke, take the mother slice into the pot, stir-fry until yellow, take out, sieve the bran, cool. Each piece of mother with bran 100kg.

6. wine: take the yellow wine sprayed into the mother of the piece, mix well, slightly moist, gentle fire frying until yellow, remove and dry. Zhi mother of every 10 kilograms, 1-2 kilograms of yellow wine.

7. Salt bran production: take the tablets with 2% salt as a supplement, add the right amount of water, soak through, dry, with the mixture of roasted 8% bran, high heat will be bran sprinkled into the pot, white smoke when poured into the tablets, with a bamboo brush to quickly stir-frying until yellow, and then take out, put into a dustpan in a small place, sieve away the bran, let cool.

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