Therefore, in the process of harvesting gastrodia elata, we must dig carefully to keep the hemp body intact. After the harvest of gastrodia elata, it is necessary to conduct a preliminary screening to separate the seed hemp from the processed hemp, which is conducive to the smooth progress of the next work. No mechanical damage, normal color, fresh light yellow, disease-free and insect-free, rice hemp and white hemp are reserved for seed hemp. Rice hemp, white hemp and arrow hemp with mechanical damage and pests are reserved for processing. ?
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The processing of kenaf can be divided into the following processes:
1, gastrodia elata processing should be graded to avoid the difficulty in mastering the maturity during processing.
Gastrodia elata is divided into five grades according to fresh weight: Gastrodia elata with fresh weight of more than 500g (dry weight of more than 50g), no worm column, no damage and no mildew spots is the special grade.
Gastrodia elata with fresh weight 150-449g (dry weight above 32g), no harm, no spots and no insect pillars is the first-class product.
Gastrodia elata with fresh weight of 75- 149g (dry weight 16g or more), no insect column, no damage and no spots is Grade II. Gastrodia elata with fresh weight of 25-74g (dry weight above 5g) and insect damage column is Grade III. Gastrodia elata with fresh weight of 5-24g (dry weight 1g or above) and discolored worm column is equal to external grade. ?
2. Cleaning: clean the above five grades of gastrodia elata respectively, put the extra-grade, first-grade and second-grade arrowheads into bamboo baskets or plastic baskets, soak them in a hot water pool at 90℃ for 20 minutes and then take them out. Scrape off the skin layer of fish phosphorus sheet on the surface of gastrodia elata with bamboo slips or gauze. After cleaning, soak it in 10% alum water for 30 minutes and take it out. Gastrodia elata cleaned that day should be processed and dried that day. Grade III and Grade III Gastrodia elata can be directly soaked in alum water for 30 minutes, and then evaporated to dryness.
3. steaming? Put the cleaned gastrodia elata on a steamer, and simmer 15 -20 minutes after the gas is round, and hemp for 20-35 minutes. Steam until gastrodia elata meat is transparent and has no black heart. ?
4. Smoked. After steaming gastrodia elata, immediately transfer it to a fumigation room and fumigate it with sulfur 10- 12 hours. The dosage of sulfur is about per cubic meter of space 10g. The smoked gastrodia elata is bright and white, which can prevent moth and mildew. ?
5, drying. Smoked gastrodia elata should be dried in time. If it is dried in a drying room, the temperature of the drying room should be controlled at 50-60℃. When the hemp is dried to 70% to 80%, take it out and flatten it with wooden boards. Then put it on a hot kang at 70℃ and dry it with coarse sand.
Always check when it is dry to prevent marijuana from burning. After drying, it is a commercial medicinal material (hemp), which is jade white in appearance, smooth and bright, and transparent and shiny after being untied. The other kind of dark hemp does not peel when processed, and naturally dries in the sun, with a dark color. After the broadcast, it was dark and bright, and it was trumpet-shaped. ?
Collection, processing and storage technology of gastrodia elata.