[Variety Source]

This product is the mycelium and spores of the Fermented Red Rice fungus (Monascus purpureus Went). It is artificially cultured to make the mycelium grow inside the rice, and eventually the entire rice grain turns red. products. This bacteria is mostly found in dairy products, and can also be artificially cultured using rice as a culture medium to turn it into Fermented Red Rice. Distributed in Hebei, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Taiwan, Fujian, Guangdong and other places.

[Character]

Fermented Red Rice has an irregular granular appearance, like rice, with a purple-red or dark red surface and a purple-red cross section. If the fermentation is incomplete, a pink or white rice center can be seen. Crisp and brittle, slightly sour and light in taste. The ones that are red, translucent, crisp and free of impurities are better. Observed under a physical anatomy microscope, the surface is rough and granular, some with pink villi; the cross section is honeycomb-like around the edges, slightly flat in the center, with radial stripes and a keratinized luster.

[Property]

sweet neutral, nontoxic, act on spleen, stomach, liver and large intestine channels.

• Yinshan Zhengyao: "sweet neutral, nontoxic".
• Benjing Fengyuan: "sweet, slightly bitter and acrid, neutral".
• Bencao Gangmu: "sweet warm, nontoxic".
• Bencao Biandu: "Sweet warm, act on spleen and stomach channels blood".
• Depei Bencao: "act on foot yangming and taiyin channels blood fraction".
• "Chinese materia medica processing of materia medica": "act on liver and large intestine channels".

[Efficacy]

It can promote the transportation and transformation of the spleen and stomach, and detoxify raw and cold substances. Its color is purple-red, rich in color and fragrance, and can increase appetite. It is also used as a food flavoring and natural food pigment. In the Song Dynasty, Fermented Red Rice was already used to make red rice wine, rice wine and red fermented bean curd (soybean curd). There is a record of "cooking meat with Fermented Red Rice" in "Qing Yi Lu" in the early Song Dynasty. In Taiwan, Fermented Red Rice is the main raw material for Shaoxing wine and old red wine.

• Bencao Gangmu: "Eliminates food and activates blood circulation, invigorates the spleen and stomach, cures red and white diarrhea, and removes watery grains."
• Comprehensive Dictionary of Chinese Medicine: "invigorating blood and resolving stasis, invigorating spleen and promoting digestion; treating postpartum lochia, stasis, abdominal pain, food accumulation and fullness."

[Documentation]

1. Riyong Bencao: "Fermented Red Rice makes wine, breaks blood stasis and exerts medicinal power, kills mountain miasma, and cures injuries caused by falls."
2. Bencao Gangmu I>: "Eliminates food and activates blood circulation, strengthens the spleen and stomach, cures women's gas pain and postpartum bad blood."
3. "Internal and external injuries": "For women after childbirth, triple energizer dampness-heat, diarrhea abdominal pain, should be stir-fried Fermented Red Rice costs five cents. Take the rice as a pill, add one tael of Trogopterus Dung, and then give it with spleen and stomach blood medicine."

[Precaution]

It is not suitable for pregnant women, lactating women, infants, those with yin deficiency with effulgent fire, no retention of food, and no static blood. Do not drink grapefruit juice or eat grapefruit while eating Fermented Red Rice.

• Shennong Bencao Jingshu: "It has diuretic properties. Do not use it if there is no retention of food. It is good at breaking blood stasis. It is forbidden to use if there is no static blood."
• Bencao Congxin: "Don't use it with Medicated Leaven, spleen yin deficiency, people with excessive stomach fire, it can damage the fetus."
• "Medicinal materia medica": "Yin deficiency means the stomach is full of fire, and there is no food accumulation and stasis. It is not used."

Fermented Red Rice contains Monacolin K. Lovastatin, which belongs to the Western medicine Statin class, should not be taken together with other Statin drugs (such as Atorvastatin, Fluvastatin, Pravastatin and Rosuvastatin) to avoid aggravating side effects. Avoid concurrent use with Fibrates hypolipidemic drugs (such as Fenofibrate and Gemfibrozil) to avoid causing rhabdomyolysis. It is not recommended for people with abnormal liver function index, long-term alcohol abuse that has damaged liver function, and people who are taking antifungal drugs (Triazole type) or anti-rejection drugs (Cyclosporine type) or Erythromycin.

[Processing and Storage]

The brewing process includes the following steps: soaking rice, steaming rice, drying rice, inoculating, kneading koji, spreading it on top, spraying water to mix koji, drying in the sun, etc. According to different processing of materia medica methods, Fermented Red Rice can be divided into prepared Fermented Red Rice, fried Fermented Red Rice, Fermented Red Rice charcoal, etc. Stir-frying to scorch enhances its effect of eliminating accumulation and diarrhea, and the raw product can also be used directly in clinical practice. The processed Fermented Red Rice charcoal looks like Fermented Red Rice, with a black outer skin and an old yellow color inside, with a burnt aroma.

• Bencao Gangmu: "If the rice is too thick, it is said to be yellow. When it is put into wine and fermented glutinous rice, it will be bright red and lovely, but if it is not too thick, it is not very good. When the rice is too red, it will be red. , The good is the one who is old for a long time."
• Paozhi Dafa: "It is good if it is aged for a long time. Blow it clean and fry it, then grind it and use it."
• Comprehensive Dictionary of Chinese Medicine: "Clean Fermented Red Rice: sieve the ash and remove impurities; Fermented Red Rice charcoal: clean Fermented Red Rice. Place it in a hot pot and stir-fry with strong fire. , so that the outside is black and the inside is old yellow, spray water and cool down.