1, bitter almonds: take the original herbs, remove impurities, residual hard shells and moldy, sieve off the ash. Pounding when used.

2, make a fire bitter almonds: take the net bitter almonds, placed in boiling water, slightly scalded, until the outer skin slightly swollen, fish out, slightly immersed in cool water, take out and rub open the seed coat, dry in the sun after bumping off the seed coat, take kernels. When used, pounded.

3, fried bitter almonds: make a fire bitter almonds, placed in the frying container, heated over moderate heat, fried to the surface yellow, remove and cool. Mash when used.

4, bitter almond cream: make a fire bitter almonds, crushed as mud, according to the oil cream method, cold press with a press to remove oil or wrapped in coarse straw repeatedly pressed to the end of the oil, crushed, sifted.

Bitter almonds for flat heart-shaped, 1 ~ 1.9cm long, 0.8 ~ 1.5cm wide, 0.5 ~ 0.8cm thick; surface yellowish brown to dark brown, one end pointed, the other end obtuse, thick, asymmetric; tip of the side of the short linear umbilicus, rounded end of the point of convergence upward with a majority of dark brown vein lines; thin testa, cotyledons 2, creamy white, rich in oil; odorless, bitter taste. Making a fire bitter almonds shaped like bitter almonds or separated into a single petal, no testa; surface milky white, gas faint, taste bitter. Fried bitter almond surface yellow, occasionally with scorched spots, gas slightly fragrant, taste bitter. Bitter almond cream is yellow-white powder, with a special odor.

Concoction purpose:

Bitter almonds taste bitter, slightly warm nature; a small poison. Attributed to the lung meridian, large intestine meridian. It has the functions of lowering qi, relieving cough and asthma, and laxative.

The raw product is slightly warm and moist, long for moistening the lungs, cough, laxative. Mostly used for the new disease cough (often cough and asthma), intestinal dryness and constipation.

Making a fire bitter almonds can destroy the enzyme, preservation of glycosides; peeled to facilitate the dissolution of effective substances to improve the efficacy of its role with the raw products.

Fried bitter almonds warm, long for warm dispersal of lung cold, and can go to a small toxicity, commonly used in lung cold cough and asthma, asthma and lung deficiency, used for intestinal dryness and constipation effect is also good.

Bitter almond cream moisturizing effect is significantly weakened, without the fear of slippery bowel, declaring the power of the lung qi is stronger, used for the spleen is loose loose wheezing cough patients.

Through the above introduction of making a fire bitter almond concoction, you should have a better understanding of almonds, but do not misuse or abuse when taking, so as not to cause bodily harm.