What are the recipes for making wine with traditional Chinese medicine?

As the pace of life in modern society continues to accelerate, people's life pressure is also increasing. Many people's bodies are in a sub-healthy state for a long time, and health preservation is becoming a real need. So what are the folk recipes for making wine with Chinese medicine?

1. Seahorse wine

[Recipe] 1 pair of seahorses, 500 grams of white wine.

【Preparation】(1) Wash the seahorse and put it into a wine jar.

(2) Pour the liquor into the jar, cover it, and soak for 15 days.

[Effects] Traditional Chinese medicine believes that seahorse can nourish the kidneys, strengthen yang, and promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. Therefore, seahorse wine is suitable for impotence, back pain, weak knees, frequent urination at night, and various lumps, swelling and pain, and bruises caused by kidney yang deficiency. It can be taken 3 times a day, 9 grams each time.

2. Deer antler wine

[Recipe] 3 grams of deer antler, 30 grams of yam, and 500 grams of white wine.

[Preparation method] Slice the velvet antler and yam, put them into a wine jar, add white wine, cover it, and soak it for 7 days.

[Effects] The effects of deer antler are described in "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It produces essence and replenishes marrow, nourishes blood and benefits yang, and strengthens tendons and muscles. It can treat all kinds of deficiency, deafness, blurred vision, dizziness, and dysentery." It can be seen that deer antler wine can replenish kidney yang and consolidate the bladder. Taking this wine in winter is beneficial for symptoms such as insufficient kidney yang, cold essence, impotence, cold pain in the lower abdomen, leucorrhea, and frequent urination at night. It can be taken 3 times a day, 9 grams each time.

3. Longevity wine

[Recipe] 900 grams of Polygonatum sibiricum, 700 grams of Asparagus cochinchinensis, 900 grams of Atractylodes lancea, 1.4 kilograms of pine needles, 1.2 kilograms of wolfberry, and 5 kilograms of wine.

[Preparation method] Decoction each medicine for 2 hours, filter the juice, add wine and mix well. Drink 20 grams on an empty stomach.

【Effects】Nourishes the five internal organs, harmonizes the six bowels, strengthens the body and removes dampness. Used for deficiency syndromes such as liver and kidney deficiency, lack of essence and blood, etc.

4. Turtle and Snake Wine

[Recipe] 10 grams each of golden beetle, king cobra, angelica, eucommia, and wolfberry, 100 grams each of honey and rock sugar, 1 kilogram of fragrant round rice, and 1 kilogram of mineral water.

[Preparation method] Round rice is added with mineral water and fermented and distilled to make wine. Add turtle and snake and soak for 6 months, then add other medicines and soak. Finally add rock sugar and honey. Drink 30 grams on an empty stomach in the morning and evening.

[Effects] Nourishes yin and kidney, dispels rheumatism, strengthens muscles and bones, and prolongs life. Used for liver and kidney deficiency, rheumatism and other symptoms.

5. Yang-boosting and longevity-enhancing wine

[Recipe] 20 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, 20 grams of Rehmannia glutinosa, 20 grams of Lycium barbarum, 15 grams of Astragalus membranaceus, 15 grams of Epimedium brevicornum, 15 grams of Cloves, 10 grams of Polygala tenuifolia, 6 grams of Agarwood, 10 lychee flesh, and 1000 grams of white wine.

[Preparation] (1) Grind the above drugs into powder, put them into a gauze bag, pour them into a clay jar together with white wine, and seal it.

(2) After 3 days, slightly open the lid and cook over low heat for 30 minutes. Remove from the heat and allow to cool slightly before sealing with a lid. It can be consumed after 21 days.

(3) Take 10-20 grams twice a day on an empty stomach.

[Effects] Nourishes the kidney and strengthens yang, benefits the liver and nourishes essence, strengthens the spleen and stomach, and prolongs life. It is suitable for spleen and kidney yang deficiency with symptoms such as weakness of waist and knees, spermatorrhea and premature ejaculation, qi deficiency and lack of strength, pale complexion, dizziness, loss of appetite and loose stools.

[Precautions] Use with caution in patients with Yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire. Do not take Curcuma while drinking alcohol.