How to dry gastrodia is correct, how to dry fresh gastrodia

Shelf life of fresh gastrodia.

Not long, usually only stored for two months. There are too many goods at home, what should I do if I can't finish eating fresh gastrodia? Giving away?

It hurts to think about it. Actually, it's not difficult at all. It takes a long time for fresh gastrodia to dry.

What are the dried vegetables and fish that cannot be eaten or dried? Fresh gastrodia can be dried for a long time, but how? Let's rise and fall together.

Cook before drying? Or is it just dry? Don't be too stupid and naïve to put gastrodia directly in the sun to dry.

Actually, it's nothing, but it's kept for a short time. If fresh gastrodia is dried, it must be boiled and then dried. I believe that the elders in the family are familiar with this.

Cook it a little or cook it slightly? Cook for a few minutes? First of all, to correct it, what happens when fresh gastrodia is cooked?

Is it soft or very soft? Don't worry too much, just cook for 2-3 minutes. Generally, it can be boiled until there is no white heart in gastrodia.

After that, the gastrodia is left to dry in the sun. How can you bask in the sun without it? If there is no sun, dry it.

Gastrodia gastrodia is flattened when it is semi-dry, and then dried at 70 degrees, which takes 2-3 days. How can fresh gastrodia be dried so easily? If the fresh gastrodia is thicker, you poke a few holes with a needle, so that the water of gastrodia will flow faster, the steaming time will be shortened, and the drying will be faster.

Fresh gastrodia. Here's how to dry it:

1. First of all, you need to wash the soil outside the fresh gastrodia, only need to wash the soil when cleaning, remember not to scrub hard, so as not to damage both ends of gastrodia.

2. Then fill the pot with water, boil first, and then put in the gastrodia and cook for 2 or 3 minutes.

3. When the sun comes out, put the boiled gastrodia in the sun to dry.

Extended information: Functional indications of gastrodia.

Relieve wind and stop spasms, calm liver yang, dispel wind and channel.

1. Liver wind internal movement.

Epilepsy convulsions: This product mainly enters the liver meridian.

The function is to relieve wind and stop spasmodic, and the taste is sweet and moist, and the medicinal properties are peaceful. Therefore, it can be used to treat all kinds of liver wind internal movement, epilepsy and convulsions, regardless of cold, heat, deficiency and reality, it can be used compatible.

2. Dizziness. Headache: This product not only relieves liver wind, but also calms liver yang, and is an important medicine for treating dizziness and headache. Regardless of false evidence or empirical evidence, it can be applied with different compatibility.

3. Numbness of limbs, limb paralysis, rheumatism.

Pain: This product can also dispel external wind, pass through the meridians, and relieve pain. Treat stroke.

Pain in the muscles and bones; The woman was paralyzed and had no hands and feet; Rheumatism and paralysis, poor joint flexion and extension, etc.

Gastrodia gastrodia is the dried tuber of the orchid plant Gastrodia, which has the effect of calming wind and relieving spasms, calming liver yang, and dispelling wind and channeling. Gastrodia is mainly used for the treatment of liver wind, epilepsy, convulsions, dizziness, headache, limb numbness, hand and foot failure, rheumatism and paralysis. In fact, the efficacy of gastrodia is mainly reflected in the following aspects:

First, analgesic. Gastrodia injection made from gastrodia has obvious analgesic effect on trigeminal neuralgia, vascular neuropathic headache, cerebrovascular headache, toxic polyneuritis, etc.

Second, the sedative effect. Some medical units use synthetic gastrodin ** neurasthenia and neurasthenic syndrome patients, the effective rate is and. It can also inhibit the central excitatory effect caused by caffeine, and also enhance the sleep time effect of pentobarbiton.

Thirdly, anticonvulsant effect. Gastrodia has a certain effect on facial nerve convulsions, limb numbness, hemiplegia, epilepsy, etc. It also has the effect of relieving smooth muscle spasm, relieving angina pectoris, biliary colic.

Fourth, it lowers blood pressure. Gastrodia can be high blood pressure. Long-term service can calm the liver and invigorate qi, improve waist and knees, strengthen muscles and bones, and can also increase peripheral and coronary blood flow, which has a protective effect on the heart.

So, since gastrodia has so many benefits, how should we dry gastrodia? In fact, when drying gastrodia, there are generally the following steps:

In the first step, the fresh gastrodia is brushed clean in clean water with a brush, then soaked in clean water, and the water is changed several times to make the surface clean.

Step 2. Find a stiff brush, remove all the crust and scars on the outside of gastrodia, and then clean it again.

The third step is to scrub the pot clean, without oil splashes, put the gastrodia in it, add water to boil, and let the gastrodia boil until there is no white core inside.

The fourth step is to take out the boiled gastrodia and put it on the top of the curtain or grid, and put it in the sun to expose it to the sun.

In fact, as long as you go through the above steps, you can make gastrodia.

1. First of all, wash the soil outside the fresh gastrodia, wash the soil when cleaning, and don't scrub it hard!

2. Then fill the pot with water, after boiling, put in the gastrodia and cook for 2-3 minutes, don't cook for too long when cooking;

3. When the sun is good, put the boiled gastrodia under the sun to dry (if it is cloudy, press the gastrodia, and then dry it in a dryer).

Arrow hemp and large white hemp can be processed into commercial hemp. The processing of gastrodia should be processed with the start, and if the storage time is too long, the gastrodia will become empty.

1) Grading. According to the size of gastrodia, it can be divided into 3 4 grades, generally fresh weight of more than 90 grams for the first class, 45 85 grams for the second class, 45 grams below and the bruised digging for the third class, and then clean the soil, to wash with the processing, so as not to affect the efficacy.

2) Steaming. Steam the washed fresh gastrodia for 15 to 20 minutes, and ask to steam thoroughly, so that you can't see the black heart. You can also use boiling water to blanch for 5 to 15 minutes. Then put it into the smoking room, smoke it with sulfur for 10 12 hours, the smoked gastrodia, the color is bright and white, ***, and can prevent insect moths and mildew.

3) Drying. Smoked gastrodia should be dried immediately. The temperature is required to be controlled at 50 60, and the starting temperature should not be too high to prevent the water in the gastrodia from evaporating too quickly and forming a hard shell in the middle sugar core and epidermis; If the temperature is too low (40), it is necessary to drain moisture to prevent mold from occurring and causing rot; When it is dry over slow heat, take it out and flatten it, then raise the temperature to about 70, and continue to dry until it is completely dry. Check frequently when drying to prevent burnt spoilage or bubbling.

When drying gastrodia, it is necessary to pay attention to thorough drying, which is more conducive to preserving the medicinal effect. High-quality gastrodia should be steamed thoroughly and then dried, so that it is not easy for insects to become damp and easier to preserve.

It is recommended to dry in the sun room to effectively isolate the interference of the outside world.

If you want to dry high-quality gastrodia, first of all, the temperature of the sun must be high, and the duration of drying is long.

Fresh gastrodia should be washed with water, the pot for boiling gastrodia should be brushed clean, there should be no oil stains, put the gastrodia in it, add water to boil, boil the gastrodia until there is no white core in it, and take it out, my gastrodia is placed on the dry food or grid, put it in the sun and expose to the sun, and it should be turned over often during the drying process, and it can be completely dry.

If you dry fresh gastrodia, you must cook it before drying it.

Cook for 2-3 minutes and it's OK, and generally cook until there is no white heart in gastrodia. After that, put the gastrodia in the sun to dry.

If there's no sun, dry it. Gastrodia is flattened when it is semi-dry, and then dried at a temperature of 70 degrees, which takes 2-3 days.

If the fresh gastrodia is thicker, a few holes will be poked with a needle, so that the moisture of the gastrodia will flow faster, the steaming time will be shortened, and the sun will dry faster.

Drying of gastrodia:

1.Remove impurities and rinse.

2.Soak in water and remove the rough skin in time.

3.Soak again in water.

4.Vaporize until there are no white spots in the center.

5.Remove to dry, sun-dry, or tumble dry.

After gastrodia is steamed, it is first dried in a dryer or oven until semi-dry, and the temperature is kept at 50 60 in the early stage of drying, and proper ventilation is maintained. After that, it will increase every hour, gradually increasing to 65.

If the temperature is too high in the early stage of drying, gastrodia is prone to chaff; The temperature is too low, and gastrodia is easy to deteriorate when the ventilation is not good. If the weather is fine, it can also be dried in the sun and at night to reduce the cost of drying.

Gastrodia shaping, generally in the drying or drying to seven or eight dry, hemp body is still soft, at this time the gastrodia is taken out, the hemp body as straight as possible, and then flattened with a wooden board to make the appearance more beautiful, if there are bubbles on the surface of the hemp body, it can be punctured with a bamboo stick.

If you just use it at home, you can dry it naturally or bake it in the oven.

Here we mainly talk about how to dry gastrodia in large quantities, and its operation process is: grading, washing, steaming, drying.

1.Grading. As the name suggests, the different grades of gastrodia are mainly classified according to the weight of gastrodia, and unqualified products such as sick hemp and rotten hemp should be removed.

2.Rinse. And the harvested gastrodia will be washed off the surface sediment, and a bubble cleaning machine can be used for large amounts.

3.Steamed. One of the indispensable steps in gastrodia processing. Those who have no experience in cooking gastrodia can check the degree of steaming if it is cooked thoroughly and has no hard heart.

4.Drying. After drying, gastrodia can improve its commodity value, and dryers with different output can be selected according to production needs. At present, the main ovens on the market are 100 kg, 200 kg, 300 kg and other outputs, and belt dryers can be used for drying with large outputs.

Gastrodia enters the dryer or oven, keeps the temperature at 60 65, and then gradually drops to 50, and the gastrodia is thoroughly dried.

If it's just at home, you can bake it with the following steps:

1. Wash the gastrodia;

2. Put it in the steamer and steam it over high heat (don't steam it too well, it will lose nutrients if it's too cooked, and then pinch it with your hands, and it can feel soft);

3. Bake with charcoal fire (do not put yourself in a sieve, and put a cloth underneath);

4. Collect and install it;

If it is mass-produced, it has to be used with a dryer.

Dedicated ovens. Changzhou Longyao drying equipment****,

1 How to dry fresh gastrodia is the best.

1. Dig fresh and ripe gastrodia in spring and winter.

2. Try not to damage the epidermis, after planing out, remove the above-ground stems and roots of gastrodia, and scrub the fresh gastrodia with a brush in clean water.

3. Then soak in water or alum water to remove the rough skin on the surface of gastrodia in time.

4. Put the soaked and washed gastrodia into a pot with water, boil it thoroughly over high heat, and take it out when there is no white core in it, or steam it.

5. Take out the boiled gastrodia and drain the water, put it on the stainless steel grid or newspaper, expose it to the sun, turn it over often, and the gastrodia can be sealed and dried and preserved.

6. If it is a cloudy day, it should be dried on a cloudy day, and then the gastrodia should be pressed to dry the water, and then dried with a dryer.

2 Why should Tianma be cooked and then dried.

Gastrodia is an orchidaceae, gastrodia saprophytic herb, is a precious Chinese medicinal material, first boiled and then dried or steamed and then dried are a method of traditional Chinese medicine concoction of medicinal materials, which can make the medicinal effect of gastrodia better play on the one hand; On the other hand, boiled gastrodia is sterilized at high temperature, which is not easy to rot, and the moisture content is low after drying, and it is also easy to preserve.

However, it should be noted that boiling gastrodia should not be boiled for too long, so as not to lose too much of the medicinal ingredients of gastrodia and affect the edible value.

3 Can gastrodia be sliced and dried.

OK. According to the above method boiled or steamed gastrodia, can be directly dried, can also be cut into uniform size of the slice after drying, generally the slice drying time is shorter than the whole gastrodia, but do not cut too thin, the thickness of about 1-2 cm is appropriate, the process of drying will shrink and become smaller, if it is too thin, it is easy to stick to the drying gear, destroy the shape of gastrodia.

4 Contraindications for eating gastrodia.

1. Contraindicated.

Gastrodia is flat, sweet, has the effect of relieving wind and spasmodic, calming the liver and latent yang, dispelling wind and channeling, and is a good medicine for dizziness, but not everyone can take gastrodia, according to the records of ancient Chinese medicine, people with low fluid and blood deficiency and yin deficiency need to use gastrodia with caution, so before taking gastrodia, it is best to consult a professional doctor whether it can be taken, so as not to cause physical discomfort.

2. Avoid overdose.

Gastrodia contains gastrodin, gastrodia polysaccharides, gastrodia glycosides and other active ingredients, sedative analgesia, anticonvulsant, anti-inflammatory effects, can be used for stroke, rheumatism, epilepsy, migraine and other diseases, but should not be overdosed, taking gastrodia more than 40 grams may appear toxic reactions, the general gastrodia commonly used amount of 3-9 grams, in addition to gastrodia there is a certain toxicity, if taking gastrodia symptoms such as chest tightness, dizziness, nausea and vomiting, rapid breathing, itching, etc., should be stopped immediately, severe symptoms should be checked in time.

Gastrodia is boiled first and then dried. Fresh gastrodia can not be kept fresh for a long time, the best way is to dry, gastrodia to cook until there is no white core in it, take it out, and then take it out and put it on the cover curtain or grid, put it in the sun to expose to the sun, to turn it over often, gastrodia can be installed when it is completely dry.

The main component of gastrodia is gastroside, which is highly volatile when heated. Gastrodia and other medicines will lose the active ingredient of sedation and analgesia due to heat. Therefore, it is best to moisten gastrodia with a small amount of water first, cut it into thin slices after softening, dry or dry the ground ground, take it with the decoction medicine, or grind it into pills and powder.