What are the effects and functions of myrtle wine?

Myrtle is a good fruit with sweet taste and high medicinal value. It can be eaten raw, but not in excess to avoid constipation. Soaking myrtle in wine is also a health care method that many people like. It can nourish the kidneys and strengthen yang, improve eyesight, and treat indigestion. There are many ways to make myrtle wine, generally including dry soaking method, fermentation method and so on. So what are the other effects and production methods of myrtle wine?

1. The roots of myrtle contain phenols, tannins, etc., which can treat chronic dysentery, rheumatism, hepatitis and lower blood lipids. It can dispel wind, activate collaterals, astringe and stop diarrhea. Used for acute and chronic gastroenteritis, stomachache, indigestion, hepatitis, dysentery, rheumatoid arthritis, lumbar muscle strain, functional uterine bleeding, and rectal prolapse; used externally to treat burns and scalds.

2. Myrtle fruit can nourish blood and stop bleeding; astringe the intestines and consolidate semen. It has a therapeutic effect on symptoms such as physical weakness, vomiting blood, epistaxis, coughing up blood due to overwork, blood in the stool, metrorrhagia, spermatorrhea, leucorrhea, dysentery, rectal prolapse, burns, and bleeding due to trauma. In addition, it can also replenish blood, nourish and stabilize the fetus. Used for anemia, physical weakness after illness, neurasthenia, tinnitus, and spermatorrhea.

3. The leaves of myrtle also have certain astringent, antidiarrheal and hemostatic effects. It is helpful for acute gastroenteritis, indigestion, dysentery, and can be used externally to treat bleeding from trauma.

How to make wine with myrtle

The most common way to eat myrtle fruit is to wash it and eat it raw. In addition, it can also be used to make wine, and the edible effect is better. Myrtle fruit wine is mainly beneficial for men to invigorate qi and astringe semen. The method of making myrtle fruit wine mainly includes the following steps.

1. Raw Immersion Method

The simplest way to make wine is to simply wash the picked myrtle fruits, dry them, and then soak them in white wine. You can also directly crush the myrtle fruit and mix the fresh juice with the wine.

2. Dry immersion method

Wash the picked mulberries, steam them, dry them, add wolfberry, red dates and other Chinese medicinal herbs, soak them in strong liquor for more than a month, and then add rock sugar to adjust the taste. This is how most people drink it.

3. Fermentation method

This brewing method is more complicated, but the resulting wine tastes better and is more suitable for people who drink high-concentration wines. It tastes sour and sweet, similar to wine. First wash the myrtle fruits and steam them. Then let them cool down and put them into a sterilized container. Mash them and mix them with sweet wine yeast and seal them. After fermenting for two to three days, filter the juice and drink it.