Dazhongsi, Xinfadi, Yuegezhuang, Jinxiudadi Logistics Port, Huilongguan Chengbei Market, Tongzhou Baliqiao Market Medicine Name Red Qu Family Name Fungus Purple Red Currant

Alias Red Currant, Dang Currant, Red Rice, Fu Qu, Red Rice, Red Trough, Red Currant Rice, Red Currant Powder

Hanyu Pinyin Hong Qu

Latin Name Fermentum Rubrum

Latin Plant Animal Mineral Name Monascus purpureus Went.

Latin Plant Animal Mineral Name Monascus purpureus Went.

Family Classification Trichoderma

Composition contains amylase, carrot chromenes.

Taste Sweet, warm, non-toxic.

Properties of the by-products of brewing, not only for coloring food, and medicine.

Attributed to the liver; spleen; stomach; large intestine meridian

Ecological environment of this bacterium in nature, mostly found in dairy products, can also be used as a medium for artificial culture of round-grained rice, so that the red currant rice.

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

Animal and plant forms of mycelium are heavily branched, colorless at the beginning, gradually changing to red, purplish-red when old; mycelium has transverse septum, multinucleate, containing orange-red particles. At maturity, single or bunches of conidia are produced 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.

Effects: Promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis; strengthening the spleen and eliminating food stagnation

Adjunctive treatments: stagnation of food and drink; distension of the epigastrium and abdomen; reddish-white dysentery; post-partum discharge; bruises

Use: Internal: in decoction of soup, 6-15g; or in pills and powder. External use: appropriate amount, pounding compress.

Nutritional Analysis

1. Recent medical research reports believe that red currant has the effect of lowering blood pressure and blood lipids, and the contained erythromycin K can prevent the generation of cholesterol;

2. Red currant rice has a purplish-red outer skin and a red inner skin, with a slightly acidic taste and a mild flavor, it has a strong coloring power for proteins, and therefore is often used as a food dyeing pigment;

3. Compared with chemically synthesized red pigment, red yeast rice has the advantages of non-toxicity and safety, and it also has the effect of strengthening the spleen and eliminating food, activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis.

Suitable for the general population can be eaten

[Cooking guide]

1. In cooking, red yeast rice is more widely used, can be used for roasted vegetables coloring, such as Jiangsu famous dish cherry meat, Wuxi spare ribs of the production;

2. can be used for roasted, soy sauce and marinated food, such as Guangdong barbecued pork and some marinades;

3. can be used in the red sausage A kind of enema coloring, as well as the preparation of sweet and sour, western juice and other complex flavors when the color;

4. congee rice, pasta, fermented bean curd, pastries, candy, candies, preserves, etc. in the production of the red currant rice is also often used.

Part of the dispensing instructions and methods of use:

[Woman postpartum blood stasis, abdominal pain]

Rhongqu 3 a 12 grams, add yellow wine decoction, take while warm.

[Warm dysentery (acute enteritis)]

Hong qu 15 grams, fried research fine powder, together with the six one san (fly talcum 6 parts, raw licorice 1 part composition) equal parts, each serving 2 ~ 9 grams, rice soup to serve, 3 times a day.

[Women's blood gas heart and abdominal pain]

Chiquan, incense, frankincense, etc., *** research finely powdered, 3 grams each time, warm yellow wine, served 3 times a day.

[Children's head sores, yellow water sores]

Red quartz fried research finely ground, sesame oil compresses the affected area, 2 times a day

Information from the Chinese materia medica, "Drinking meals are about to be prepared," "Daily Cuisine"

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