What is good to soak in white wine

Many people have a hobby of soaking wine in their lives. Soaking wine with medicinal materials can incorporate the value of the medicine into the wine. At the same time, in the process of drinking, you can absorb the medicinal properties, which is perfect. However, some Chinese medicinal materials and wine are not compatible. So when soaking wine, you should pay attention. Not all medicinal materials can be soaked in wine. Let’s take a look at what kind of medicine is best to soak in white wine?

Preparation method

Medicinal wine is an extract preparation. That is, the tissue cells of dried herbal medicines or foods are atrophied, and the various components in the cell fluid exist in the cells in the form of crystals or amorphous precipitation. In order to extract the effective ingredients, alcohol is needed as a solvent to soak the herbs and enter the cells. Then ethanol can play a good desorption role, dissolve the soluble components, and transfer them into the solvent.

After the solvent dissolves a lot of substances in the cell, the concentration of the intracellular solution becomes significantly higher than that outside the cell, thus forming a concentration difference. It is precisely because of this concentration difference that the high-concentration extract inside the cells continues to diffuse outside the cells in the direction of low concentration, while the dilute solution continues to enter the cells of the medicinal materials, so that the soluble components in the medicine gradually dissolve in the wine. In order to improve the leaching efficiency, methods such as moderately crushing the drugs, increasing the leaching temperature, mastering the appropriate leaching time, and expanding the concentration difference can be adopted.

There are many methods to make medicinal wine, such as cold soaking, hot soaking, decoction and wine mixing, quenching wine, and brewing. The cold soaking method is the easiest for home preparation. The clean pieces of medicine or coarse powder of medicinal materials prepared according to the prescription can be placed in a ceramic jar or a glass container with a stopper lid, and an appropriate amount of wine (generally low-alcohol white wine or yellow wine) is added. According to the amount of water absorbed by the medicinal materials, it is prepared in a ratio of 1:5 to 1:10. The jar is sealed and soaked, and shaken once a day or every other day. After 14 to 20 days, it is filtered with gauze.

To correct the taste, add an appropriate amount of rock sugar or white sugar. The medicinal residue can be soaked in wine 1^2 times. It is generally recommended to take it warm before meals and drink the appropriate amount each time. If you are not good at drinking, you can start with a small amount and gradually increase the amount, or you can take it after diluting it with water. According to pharmacological research, alcohol has obvious effects on the nervous, circulatory and digestive systems of the human body. Drinking a small amount or a moderate amount of alcohol is beneficial to the human body. Drinking it with Chinese medicine (medicinal wine) can prevent and treat certain diseases and promote human health.

The unique wine-making techniques and equipment, the honest and simple wine-making customs and etiquette, the dazzling array of wine utensils and vessels, the various innovative wine rhetoric and orders, as well as the many wonderful legends related to wine, all undoubtedly show that the history of wine brewing is a part of Chinese civilization.

Cold soaking method

Cut or crush the medicine appropriately, place it in a clay jar or other suitable container, add an appropriate amount of white wine (or yellow wine) according to the prescription, seal and soak (stir or shake frequently) for a certain period of time, take the supernatant, and squeeze the residue, combine the squeezed liquid with the supernatant, let it stand and filter.

Hot dip method

Chop the medicine into pieces (or pound it into coarse powder), place it in a suitable container, add an appropriate amount of white wine as specified in the formula, seal the container, heat it in water until it boils, take it out, continue soaking for the specified time, take the supernatant, and press out the remaining liquid from the residue, combine, let it stand, settle, and filter. Or inject an appropriate amount of white wine into a suitable container, put the appropriately crushed medicine into a gauze bag, place it in the wine, seal the container, and then immerse it in a water bath maintained at a certain temperature, and take the liquid in the same way as above.

Drug-adding brewing method

That is, the medicine is directly added to rice, sorghum and distiller's yeast and boiled and fermented into wine.