The difference between Monascus Red rice and Monascus Red.

Many people don't know what red song is. Most of them think of it, is it a kind of wine? In fact, in our lives, more or less will be exposed to Monascus Redt-related foods. Monascus Redrefers to the liquid monascus pigment obtained by extracting Monascus Red rice with ethanol or extracted and crystallized from the deep culture medium of Monascus. The resulting product is refined. Monascus red pigment is a traditional natural functional food pigment produced by fermentation of Monascus, which has multiple advantages such as “nutrition, natural and multifunctional” and is worthy of application and promotion.

Speaking of red songs and red rice, how many people know them? It should not be the majority, and in those who know them, there are quite a few people who don’t know red and red The difference between meters; so today it is necessary to talk about it, whether you know it or not, come to see the difference between red and red rice.

Monascus Red, Chinese medicine name. A Monascus Red rice formed by the mycelium of the Aspergillus fungus Monascus parasitic on glutinous rice. Distributed in Hebei, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Taiwan, Fujian, Guangdong and other places. It has the effects of strengthening the spleen and digestion, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Often used for food stagnation, abdominal fullness, red and white sputum, postpartum lochia, and bruises.

Medicinal properties: Monascus Red rice is long oval, cylindrical or irregular, slightly flat, 5-8mm long, 2-3.5mm wide and 1.5-3mm thick. The surface is purple or reddish brown, uneven, and some have a shallow vertical and horizontal texture. It is brittle and easy to break along the horizontal texture. The section is flush, the edges are red to dark red, the middle is slightly concave, and the white to light red. Gas-specific, mild, slightly sweet, with red translucent crisp, Chen Jiu is better. Pieces of granules: irregular granules, shaped like broken rice, brownish red on the outside, crispy, pink in cross section, slightly sour and slightly faint.

Efficacy: spleen and digestion, blood circulation. Indications, food stagnation, abdominal distension, red and white sputum, postpartum lochia is not exhausted, bruises.

Monascus Red rice, the name of traditional Chinese medicine, is called red rice by the people. It is made from rice, such as japonica rice, japonica rice and glutinous rice, and is fermented with Monascus, which is brown red or purple red rice. Its taste: sweet, warm, with the effect of strengthening the spleen and digestion, promoting blood circulation and stasis, the main treatment for postpartum lochia is not clean, stagnation of abdominal pain, food fullness, red and white sputum, bruises and injuries. It is an irregular shaped particle, like broken rice; the appearance is brownish red, crisp, the section is pink, slightly sour, and the taste is light, with red translucent crisp, Chen Jiu is better.

Book record

1, treatment of diet stagnation, chest full of boring, indigestion: red yeast 9g, malt 6g, hawthorn 9g. Shuijianbi, 2 times a day. (Liu Bo, "Chinese Medicinal Fungi")

2, cure heart and abdomen pain: red, fragrant, frankincense and other points. For the end, the wine service. ("Extracted Xuanfang")

3, go to Sanjiao damp heat, cure diarrhea, treat postpartum abdominal pain or self-interested people also cure blood stasis: six one scattered one, red yeast (fried) half two (blood) and two and a half clouds. On the end, rice balls, scorpions big. Each serving five or seventy pills, under the white soup. ("Danxi Heart Law" Qingliu Pills)

4, treatment of children with frequent vomiting, not into the milk, hand and foot heart heat: red song (years) three money and a half, atractylodes (bron fry) a money and a half, licorice (炙) a dollar. For the end. Half a serving of each serving, fried jujube rice soup. ("The Outline" refers to the "Economy (Test)")

5, treatment of women's blood pain: red yeast 6g. Decoction, hot wine, 3 times a day. (Liu Bo, "Chinese Medicinal Fungi")

6, treatment of bruises: red yeast 6g, iron leek 31g. Shuijianbi, served once, 3 times a day. (Liu Bo, "Chinese Medicinal Fungi")

7, treatment of children with head sores, due to injury into the water into poison, pus is not exhausted: red yeast chewed, it is effective. ("One hundred elections")

 In the sixth volume of "The History of Chinese Science and Technology", Joseph Needham stated that in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" (1596), red yeast or red yeast has been listed as a medicament for the first time. Since then, red yeast has become one of the obscure drugs in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia. However, this situation may have dramatic changes. In recent years, studies in China and Japan have shown that red yeast rice contains a compound called monacolins, which has the ability to lower cholesterol in the blood of high cholesterol animals. Now, clinical trials have also shown that red yeast rice also has the effect of lowering cholesterol in human serum. Among them, the main active ingredient is monacolin K, which is the same substance as lovastatin (lovestatin), and lovastatin is the first statin series which has been proven to reduce cholesterol in recent years. One of the drugs. These exciting discoveries suggest that red yeast may become a very popular dietary supplement in a few years to reduce the incidence of coronary heart disease and other circulatory diseases in the general population. At the same time, this discovery has also given people a new interest in the application of red yeast rice in fermentation and cooking, namely, promoting the use of red yeast wine and promoting the application of red yeast in food processing, making it from local specialty status to national consumption and Enjoy the product.