What kind of wine is good for brewing medicinal wine

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A lot of classical medicinal liquor formulas and technological processes are open, but many people fail to make medicinal liquor or the effect of the produced medicinal liquor is not good. The key reason is the improper selection of liquor. This article will tell you what kind of wine is good for brewing medicinal wine.

What kind of wine is good for brewing medicinal wine

First: water is a good solvent for a large number of inorganic substances, and also a good solvent for some inorganic substances. Alcohol is a good solvent, which can dissolve a large number of organic substances, and the effective components in traditional Chinese medicine are mainly organic substances. Brewing medicinal wine is to use alcohol in wine to dissolve the organic matter of active ingredients in medicinal materials, but alcohol can't dissolve all drug ingredients. Therefore, water is needed to completely dissolve the active ingredients of medicinal materials. For example, mineral drugs need water to dissolve. However, water and alcohol are mutually soluble, and there is no separation phenomenon of drug components. This is the basic principle of making medicinal wine.

Second: after understanding the basic principle of medicinal wine brewing, we know that brewing medicinal wine needs appropriate degree of wine base. Low alcohol can't make good medicinal wine, but it's not that the higher the alcohol concentration is, the better. Too high alcohol can't make some medicinal wine. Practice has proved that 55 to 70 degrees of wine, used to brew wine can extract the most effective components.

Third: according to the way of use, medicinal liquor can be divided into three kinds: oral, external and oral. The tolerance of drinking objects to alcohol must be considered when taking medicine wine orally. It is not necessary to consider the alcohol tolerance of the users of medicinal wine for external use, and it is generally made with high alcohol. Oral and external use of dual-function wine, generally with moderate wine or high wine brewing.

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The concentration of selected liquor for oral administration can be generally divided into two situations. In one case, if the drinking object has low tolerance to alcohol, and the medicinal materials do not require high alcohol alcohol, such as bayberry wine, carambola wine, etc., they can be directly brewed with medium and low alcohol wine, generally more than 20 degrees. Another case is that the medium and high alcohol liquor is directly used to brew the medicinal liquor. When drinking, if the drinking object does not tolerate alcohol, the low alcohol liquor is used to blend and reduce the degree.