How to make medicinal wine

Many people in the choice of medicinal wine as a health drink, like to make their own medicinal wine, their own brewed medicinal wine, in addition to more affordable, but also according to personal constitution, disease characteristics to choose the drug, more targeted, the effect received is also more significant, so how to make medicinal wine?

Treatment of herbs

The preparation of alcoholic beverages are generally cut into slices or pounded into powder, according to the doctor's prescription, the purchase of Chinese medicine in the pharmacy has been processed and concocted, without special treatment, their own blend of Chinese medicine, the first thing to find out the name, specifications, to prevent the same name or different name and the same thing and the wrong herbs, but also to be wary of shoddy herbs, fresh drugs, raw drugs need to be processed and concocted first.

The choice of wine

The wine chosen for the infusion of medicinal wine, according to the individual body to choose, in general, the infusion of medicinal wine to 50 to 60 degrees of rice wine or high-quality shochu is most appropriate, because the concentration of wine is too low, the active ingredients are not easy to leach out, will affect the therapeutic effect, and the wine is easy to deteriorate, but the concentration of wine is too high, the small amount of water contained in the herbs are absorbed, so that the drug material becomes hard, the active ingredients are difficult to precipitate, if it is not good Drinking people, you can use low white wine, yellow wine and rice wine, but the leaching time and the number of times appropriate to extend and increase.

The method of infusion of medicinal wine

Cold soaking method

This method is more commonly used, that is, the herbs crushed into pieces or coarse powder, placed in a non-metallic container with a lid, the prescription if there is no provision for the amount of wine, you can follow the drug and wine in the ratio of 1 to 5 or 1 to 10, that is, 100-200 grams of herbs plus 1000 ml of white wine immersed, sealed and placed, shaken once or twice a day, after 7 days of impregnation, can be changed to shaking and stirring once a week, about a month, the The medicinal properties precipitated, the wine color is rich, you can press the slag to take the wine, stored in the bottle, slowly drink. The rest of the dregs can be added to the wine and steeped again. If the medicine wine need to add sugar or honey flavoring, you can dissolve sugar with an equal amount of white wine warm, filter, mix the liquid with sugar and stir, and then filter the dregs and drink wine.

Hot steeping method

Hot dipping method, also known as cooking method, first boil the herbs and wine together for a certain period of time, and then put cold storage, this method can accelerate the speed of extraction, but also to make some ingredients easy to leach. Boiling wine can be used when the indirect heating method of stewing in water, that is, the herbs and wine first in a small aluminum pot or enamel jar and other containers, and then put in a pot of water to boil and stew, the time should not be too long, otherwise the wine will evaporate, see the surface of the drug bubbles, to immediately end away from the stove fire, and then sealed while hot, let stand for about 15 days, absorb the supernatant, press out the residue in the residue of the remaining wine, combined with the rest of the clarification, filtering that is.

Decoction method

Crush the herbs into coarse powder, put them all into a casserole, add water 10 cm above the surface of the medicine, soak for 6 hours, heat and boil for 1 to 2 hours, filter, decoct again, combine the two filtrations, leave for 8 hours, take the supernatant and concentrate it into a thick paste, add wine equal to the paste and mix well after cooling, put it into an altar, seal for about 7 days, take the supernatant and filter, this method uses less wine, the smell of wine when taking It is not heavy, but the aromatic drugs that are easy to volatilize should not be decocted.

Brewing method

Decoct the herbs with water, filter the dregs, concentrate the juice, then cook the glutinous rice, mix the glutinous rice, juice and wine, put it in a clean container, seal it with a lid, put it in a heat preservation place, try to minimize contact with air, keep it at a certain temperature, and drink it after about 4 to 6 days.

Selection of the time for making medicinal wine

Although it is said that you can make medicinal wine all year round, the temperature has a different impact on the quality of medicinal wine. High temperatures in summer, alcohol volatilization is fast, the operation time is too long or container closure is not dense, often resulting in lower alcohol concentration, part of the raw materials are also prone to deterioration; winter is too content, the active ingredients of the drug is not easy to leach, easy to affect the efficacy, so the best bubble medicinal wine in the spring or autumn is best, the two seasons the weather is not cold, warm and suitable, the best quality of the infusion of medicinal wine.