Yuzhou Traditional Chinese Medicine Processing and Preparation Techniques

Henan
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Yuzhou is a distribution center for Chinese medicinal materials. Historically, there were more than 20 guilds and numerous medicine shops, medicine companies, medicine sheds, and drug stores, which promoted the development of Chinese medicinal material planting, processing, and preparation technology. The preparation of Chinese medicinal materials in Yuzhou began in the Ming Dynasty. It is a collection of skills from past dynasties. It is tailored to the medicine, with unique skills, fine production, and emphasis on efficacy. It has formed unique local characteristics in terms of "immersion, soaking, forging, stewing, frying, roasting, steaming, and boiling." There is a saying in the industry that "medicine is not as good as Yu." The Chinese medicine preparation skills of Yuzhou have a great influence throughout the country. In the early Qing Dynasty, Yuzhou's Chinese medicine preparation created five methods of steaming, soaking, slicing, pounding, and chopping. According to the shape of the medicine and the needs of the medicine, the pharmacists can process it into bites, segments, blocks, silk, thin slices, thin slices, pounded slices, planed slices, top blades, oblique slices, and discs. There are 14 kinds of slices (shapes), including fragrant slices and butterfly slices. More than 100 kinds of processed Chinese medicines are well-known both at home and abroad. 56 kinds of Chinese medicinal materials have won the "First Place in the National Chinese Medicine Piece Quality Evaluation" three times. At the "World Medical Expo" in 1911, Yuzhou's "Nine-steamed Large Cooked Rehmannia" caused a sensation. Yuzhou's Chinese medicine processing and processing technology is included in the "Henan Province Chinese Medicine Processing Specifications" as a unified standard. Its value is mainly reflected in the research value of Chinese medicine, the standardized research on the planting and processing of Chinese medicinal materials, and its practical value. It is of great significance to the production, trading and economic construction of local Chinese medicinal materials.

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