As a small variety of traditional Chinese medicine, everyone is only familiar with two specifications, that is, the standard water and salt water under the pharmacopoeia specification.
However, as a medicinal herb, there are many specifications, and for procurement, it is not known that the fluctuation of these specifications is a precursor to the fluctuation of the price of clear water brine.
Today, I would like to introduce the whole scorpion as a medicinal herb and those specifications from good to second.
Clear water goods: clear water goods is to boil with water (water), the scorpion washed directly into the boiling water pot boiled until the body stiff fished out to dry, because it is boiled in water, the scorpion must be selected in the futures (empty belly flat) in order to process the qualified pure water whole scorpion.
Below: High-quality pure water full scorpion
Brine cargo:
Because the front futures with more pregnant scorpions, the latter futures because the scorpion in order to overwinter to eat more fat, water can not be the scorpion body food to clean, so the need to use salt water, can increase the boiling water boiling point temperature will remain in the scorpion body impurities to clean, on the other hand, salt water can play a role in prolonging the shelf life of the whole scorpion.
Below: High-quality brine
Original Frozen Goods:
As the name suggests, it is a wild scorpion that removes impurities and directly puts it into the cold storage to freeze the scorpion. The original live frozen goods are divided into pre-futures, medium futures and post-futures. In general, before the end of July and the beginning of August every year, the quality of the female scorpion is not good due to the fact that the female scorpion does not give birth to a large proportion of large bellies and small scorpions, and the size is uneven. From the beginning of August to the end of August every year, the futures at this time are called "volt goods" because they are volt days. It is characterized by the fact that the scorpion has just passed the calving period and its size is uniform, it is the best quality in the year, and it is a must-choose material for pure clear water goods. Post-futures: Since after giving birth, the female scorpion has to race against time, frantically catching food to restore physical energy storage energy to prepare for wintering. Scorpions are generally fatter during this period.
Below: High-quality original live frozen goods
Fattening goods:
Introduction of fattening goods here to clarify, at present, there is no pure sense of domestic breeding scorpions. Wild scorpions in the wild food is relatively scarce, Luoyang scorpion merchants from all over the country to buy wild scorpions from all over the country to Luoyang, artificial feeding to achieve zengjia physical fitness, and then store the scorpions for wintering, in order to achieve the purpose of selling fresh scorpions every year. Scorpions that are artificially fed are called "fattening goods". If the same scorpion, in the wild food shortage to fill the stomach takes a month or more, artificial conditions only need about a week. Therefore, fattening goods are almost the same as wild post-futures, the only difference is that one is full of picnic and the other is full of private rooms. The biggest feature of fattening goods and wild goods is that the back of fattening goods is shiny. Wild cargo back rough dull.
Below: Fattening goods (live scorpions)
Fattening frozen goods:
It is the scorpion that has been fattened and put the wild scorpion directly into the cold storage and frozen it for storage.
Picture below: Fattening frozen goods
Hemp Goods:
Native to Ningxia and Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and Ningxia are also distributed.
The color of the back is similar to that of the pale yellow of the dead leaves, and the locals are commonly known as "hemp goods", because of the distribution in the Hui residential area, also known as the "small Hui scorpion", the adult body length is about 4 cm.
Figure below; Hemp goods
Drop-off goods:
It is the scorpions that are weak in the process of fattening in Luoyang and collect the scorpions after they die. This kind of goods has the advantages of flat belly and small moisture, and the processing of dried scorpions has a high rate of scale. However, aflatoxin sometimes exceeds the standard.
Figure below; Falling pool goods (sweeping pool goods)
Fresh dead goods:
Fresh dead goods, also known as dead frozen goods, are purchased from the place of origin to send wild scorpions live to Luoyang, and the remaining dead scorpions freeze up. This kind of goods is called fresh and dead goods. Here to emphasize to everyone, live scorpions directly put in the cold storage frozen up called "live frozen goods", live frozen goods aflatoxin does not exceed the standard. After the scorpion dies, it is called "dead frozen goods" in the cold storage, and the general yellow song sometimes exceeds the standard.
Below: Fresh Dead Goods (Dead Frozen Goods)
(This article is provided by Li Qingliang, Luoyang Pharmaceutical Farmers Whole Scorpion Professional Cooperative 18638859975)