“insulation cup bubble wolfberry”, more and more people on their own with Chinese medicine to make water to drink, the purpose is to maintain health care. However, the Chinese medicine or tonic on the market is easy to adulterate, to coax consumers with the second best, not only can not play a health effect but will raise disease, so you must learn to identify when buying Chinese medicine.
How to distinguish between real and fake Chinese medicine?
1. Wolfberry
Chinese wolfberry has the effect of nourishing the kidneys and essence and moistening the lungs to stop coughing, but also to nourish the liver and eyesight, as well as blood and tranquilizing effect. Fresh wolfberry origin is not the same, there are differences in color, generally bright red color, thick meat and seeds, sweet taste; poor quality wolfberry meat thin, seeds, color showing dark red, taste sour, small particles. Reminder-dyed wolfberry’s whole body is red, careful observation of the wolfberry tip on the line, as long as the red, is dyed; sulfur-smoked wolfberry tastes sour and bitter.
2. Angelica
Some unscrupulous businessmen in angelica drink tablets adulterated with doklamia drink tablets or European angelica, difficult to be identified. Angelica can play a blood tonic blood effect, and can also be laxative and menstrual pain; Doklam has wind and dampness as well as paralysis and pain relief; Ou Angelica’s chemical composition and Angelica are completely different, and the side effects are larger. Angelica’s cross-sectional skin color is darker, emitting a clear and strong smell; Doklam’s cross-sectional skin color is lighter, the wood part is darker, and the aroma is too heavy and turbid.
3. Western ginseng
As the price of American ginseng is high, some businessmen will use raw sun ginseng to fake American ginseng for sale. Raw sun ginseng is warm, which can nourish the qi and strengthen the spleen and lung, while American ginseng is cool, which can nourish the qi and nourish the yin and clear the fire and produce fluid, suitable for those who are deficient in both qi and yin. Raw sun ginseng is lax in texture and has fissures in the cross-section after being cut horizontally, generally showing a radial shape; however, American ginseng is solid in texture and has no fissures in the imported cross-section.
4. Gum
Colla Corii Asini is made from donkey skin after layers of processing, which can nourish blood and nourish Yin and moisten and stop bleeding. Because of the low supply of donkey skin, some merchants use pig skin or snail skin to boil it into Colla Corii Asini, which is difficult to be distinguished from the real one. When buying, be sure to look at the outer packaging, showing a brownish rectangular, smooth surface, with a certain luster, fragile and fragile texture, while emitting gum flavor.
5. Wormwood summer grass
Cordyceps has the function of tonifying the lungs and kidneys, relieving cough, and resolving phlegm, and is generally used for lung and kidney phlegm, which is expensive. There are many counterfeit products on the market, counterfeit with sublime stick Cordyceps. Therefore, when buying, you should choose the Cordyceps with a single sub-section, easy to break the body, and no bamboo sticks after breaking.
Warm Tips
To be able to avoid buying fake Chinese medicine, you should choose a regular Chinese medicine store to buy, not choose a small store or ground stall goods for the sake of momentary cheap, not to mention the Internet platform to buy, its quality is worrying.