Pepper Wine, from the collection "Xian Nian Ji". Pepper wine has the effect of treating hemiplegia. Let's learn about the efficacy and function of the medicinal herb Cang Zhu, which is used in the recipe.
【Name】
Pepper Wine
【Ingredients】
10 liang (about 150g) Cang Zhu, 4 liang (about 60g) Sichuan pepper, 5 jin (about 2.5kg) old wine.
【Preparation】
Mix all ingredients in a bottle, seal it with bamboo strips, and cook with boiling water until the rice on top of the bamboo strips is cooked.
【Functions and Indications】
Treats hemiplegia.
【Usage and Dosage】
Drink it until you get drunk. It will make you sweat and then you will recover.
【Efficacy and Function of Cang Zhu】
Cang Zhu is mainly used to strengthen the spleen, dry dampness, relieve depression, and dispel filth. It is used to treat spleen deficiency with excessive dampness, fatigue, excessive sleepiness, abdominal distension, decreased appetite, vomiting, diarrhea, dysentery, malaria, phlegm and fluid retention, edema, seasonal colds, wind-cold dampness bi syndrome, leg weakness, and night blindness.
①Tao Hongjing: "Dispels evil qi."
②Liu Wansu: "Improves eyesight, warms the water organs."
③"Zhen Zhu Nang": "It can strengthen the stomach and spleen, and nothing else can eliminate dampness and swelling."
④Li Gao: "Eliminates dampness, induces sweating, strengthens the stomach and spleen, and is an essential medicine for treating weakness."
⑤Zhu Zhenheng: "Dispels wind, tonifies qi, and resolves all forms of depression."
⑥"Gang Mu": "Treats damp phlegm retention and edema, or blood stasis forming cysts, as well as spleen dampness flowing downward, turbid discharge, and loose stools caused by intestinal wind."
⑦"Yu Qiu Yao Jie": "Dries dampness, promotes urination, eliminates phlegm, disperses blood stasis, resolves depression, treats acid reflux, removes rot, prevents mountain and river diseases, relaxes tendons and bones, and clears cloudy urine."
⑧"Ben Cao Qiu Yuan": "Stops diarrhea caused by excessive water, dampness, or heat, and treats spleen dampness with blood loss."