Golden cherry aliases: elm, prickly pear, golden poppy, mountain pomegranate, pheasant head, sugar jar sugar warbler, candy, bee sugar cane jar, betel nut fruit, golden pot bottle, sugar orange, yellow tea bottle, rattan hook, mantis fruit, sugar thorn fruit, lantern fruit, thorn olive, lantern fruit, thorn orchid tree, each place is called differently.
Golden cherry blossoms are scattered with flattened skin thorns, hairless, and are glandular hairs when young, and gradually shed less when old. Widely produced in Shaanxi, Anhui, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hubei, Hunan and other places.
The root bark contains tannin to make quercetin, and the fruit can be boiled with sugar and wine. Roots, leaves and fruits are all medicated, and the roots have the effects of activating blood and dispersing stasis, dispelling wind and dehumidification, detoxifying and converging and killing insects;
External use of leaves to treat boils and burns can stop diarrhea and inhibit influenza virus. Remove the impurities from the golden cherry blossoms, cut them into two petals, wash them with water, remove the residual burrs, dig out the hairs and nuclei, and dry them.
Golden cherry fruit into the medicine, diuretic, kidney tonic effect, as well as cough and asthma, antispasmodic, blood lipid lowering and other effects.
Using golden cherry blossoms to brew wine is a common method of brewing pharmaceutical wine in China, golden cherry blossom wine is soft and mellow, sweet and delicate, easy to drink, good to drink and not on the head, so it is loved by the masses.
The following is a brief introduction to the method of brewing wine with golden cherry blossoms, the precautions in the brewing process, and the recipe of common golden cherry blossom medicinal liquor
<h1>Preparation materials:</h1>
1. Those who have the conditions can go to the mountain forest to pick the golden cherry blossoms. In autumn, wait until the thorns on the golden cherry fruit wilt and the color of the fruit turns yellow, and then you can pick it. Do not have fruits of poor quality and diseases and insects.
2: Rub off the thorns on the surface, wash them and break them in half with a knife, remove the seeds in the middle and dry them for use. It can also be dried whole.
You can also dry the golden cherry blossoms once steamed to completely remove pests and bacteria.
3. If there is no condition to pick yourself, you can go to the Chinese herbal medicine market to buy directly.
<h1>Selection of wines</h1>
High rice wine or other pure grain wine is required, and the alcohol content is 40-50 degrees.
<h1>Selection and preparation of containers</h1>
Choose the usual glass or ceramic containers, not plastic bottles and cans, but also stainless steel containers. Wash and dry container and set aside.
<h1>Sugar choice</h1>
The golden cherry blossoms themselves have a certain sweetness, and the rock sugar can also be left alone. To put it according to their own taste to decide the amount of put, it is recommended that each kilogram of rice wine should not exceed one or two rock sugar.
You can choose white sugar, rock sugar or add a small amount of honey, from a health point of view, it is recommended to choose rock sugar.
<h1>Practice 1:</h1>
Rice wine, dried golden cherry blossoms, rock sugar = 10:2: to taste.
Put all the above ingredients into the container and seal the mouth of the container. The entire container is placed in a cool place and can be drunk after a month, the longer it is stored, the better the taste.
<h1>Practice two:</h1>
Rice wine, dried golden cherry blossoms, astragalus, ginseng, goji berries, rock sugar, honey = 10: 1: 0.2: 0.1: 0.3: 0.4: to taste.
There is astragalus ginseng in this party, it is recommended not to drink more at a time, and it is advisable to have two or two times a day.
Caution: It is forbidden to take on fire or fever.
<h1>Golden cherry blossoms can also be cooked and eaten</h1>
The efficacy and effect of golden cherry seeds are remarkable, and according to personal tastes, golden cherry blossoms can be used as ingredients to make a variety of foods:
<h1>1. Golden cherry blossom porridge</h1>
Cooking porridge with golden cherry blossoms can play a role in solidifying and relieving diarrhea, and the production process is also very convenient. Wash the golden cherry blossoms, put them in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, boil over low heat, switch to low heat and cook for 10 minutes, filter out the residue, cook the medicinal juice with japonica rice as porridge, and then add a little salt and mix well to taste.
<h1>2. Golden cherry blossom eucommia stewed pork tail</h1>
Ingredients: 25 grams of golden cherry blossoms, 30 grams of eucommia, 2 tails of pigs (dehaired and washed).
Directions: Add water directly to a casserole dish and cook, season with a little salt, eat meat and drink soup. It can effectively treat dizziness, tinnitus, pale or dull face, mental atrophy, cold limbs and other symptoms.
<h1>3. Golden cherry crucian carp soup:</h1>
30 grams of golden cherry blossoms, 250 grams of crucian carp to remove the dirty scales, add water to the appropriate amount of soup, season with oil and salt, eat fish and drink soup.
<h1>4. Substitute tea</h1>
Take the golden cherry blossoms, put them in a thermos cup, brew with boiling water, cover for more than 15 minutes, and replace tea.