Ze Xie is one of the traditional Chinese medicines in China. Although it is a cold natured herb, it has high medicinal value. It not only has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, but also can stop diarrhea and reduce swelling. Let's learn about Ze Xie together!
【Processing Method】
Remove stems, leaves, and roots, wash and dry them with low heat, then remove the roots and rough skin.
1. Ze Xie: Remove impurities, sort by size, soak in water until partially translucent, remove and sun-dry, moisturize until internal and external humidity is even, slice, and sun-dry.
2. Bran processing: Take bran, sprinkle it into the pot, wait for the smoke to rise, add Ze Xie slices, stir-fry until yellow, remove, sift out the bran, and let cool. For every 100kg of Ze Xie slices, use 10kg of bran.
3. Salt bran processing: Take Ze Xie slices, moisten them evenly with salt, sun-dry, then add honey-processed bran, process according to bran processing method, for every 500kg of Ze Xie, use 6kg of salt and 60kg of wheat bran. Add water as needed.
4. Wine processing: In a hot pot at 100 degrees, add Ze Xie slices, stir-fry several times, spray evenly with wine, fry until dry, remove and let cool. For every 100kg of Ze Xie, use 5kg of wine.
5. Salted Ze Xie: Take Ze Xie slices, spray and mix with salt water, let it moisturize for a while, put it in a pot, stir-fry with low heat until the surface turns slightly yellow, remove and air-dry. (For every 100 catties of Ze Xie, use 2.8 taels of salt, add appropriate amount of boiling water to clarify)
【Usage】
1. Ze Xie porridge
Ingredients: 10g of Ze Xie, 100g of rice, a little sugar.
Method: Clean the Ze Xie, put it in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, decoct and extract the juice, add rice to cook porridge, when cooked, add sugar, and boil for another one or two times. Take 1-2 doses daily.
Regular consumption of this porridge has good therapeutic effects on difficult urination, edema, diarrhea, turbid urine, leucorrhea, phlegm and dampness, as well as nocturnal emission and dizziness caused by insufficient kidney yin and excessive fire.
2. Gentian Ze Xie wine
Ingredients: 30g of gentian grass, 30g of scutellaria, 10g of Ze Xie, appropriate amount of gardenia fruit, plantain seed, szechuan lovage rhizome, raw rehmannia root, and angelica root, as well as yellow wine.
Method: Prepare using hot soaking method. Take 20-30ml three times a day. Take it at the end of the last week before menstruation.
It is mainly used to treat symptoms of dysmenorrhea in women.
