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The whole process of making Zihe Che

As we all know, I got a small cotton-padded jacket a few days ago. When I entered the delivery room, I repeatedly told the nurses and midwives to give me the placenta, so I got a steaming bag of meat.
To be honest, I never thought this thing could be so big and still have room to fit in my belly.
Due to the mask, only one person can accompany him in the hospital, so this mess can only be put in the refrigerator to “anneal”.
I personally do not object to the use of products made of flesh and blood. If you look closely, the products I have used most in the past few years should be turtle and deer products. When I was studying in Hangzhou, I accumulated a lot of experience in using tortoise shells and turtle shells. After coming to the imperial capital, I saw the power of the masters using deer antlers and antlers. The use of artificial products has gradually increased in the past two years. Before wearing masks, there were still quite a lot of people with asthma. Kanqi and Ziheche often appeared in prescriptions. Heche Dazao pills are also very effective. As the fertility tide fades, more and more people with infertility have difficult and complicated diseases. Ziheche’s status is unmatched.
Some young comrades advised me to just chop the dumplings and forget it, but if I didn’t have the courage to do so, I would definitely not be able to swallow them. . . .
So I studied the ancient cooking process. The ancient books of the past dynasties recorded this:

Wash the fat and strong ones, remove the purple veins and chop them into small pieces. Add two bowls of children’s feces, boil it with heavy soup in a lead bottle, wait for a day and night to make a paste, and then grind it into a paste. In the secular world, there is something that turns into a clear spring after being buried in the ground for a long time. This is called Heche Shui. “The medicinal solution of Lei Gong Pao”
Pour into running water and wash the fascia. Or the new tiles are dried and wrinkled into lumps. Two new tiles are laid up and covered with iron wires. The salt mud is tightly tied and placed low on the ridge. Bake it with a slow fire. Sometimes it is turned upside down to avoid being scorched black. From Chen to Shen, it gradually dries and wrinkles into lumps. Or steam the paste in a dense steamer and pestle. The small steamer is densely packed, steamed for a day and night before it becomes rotten, and the paste is pestled. The lumps can be left for a long time, grinded into powder and used as a medicine; the ointments should be used immediately, mixed with honey and made into pills. “Materia Medica”
Wash it with clean water until it is white, boil it in a lead kettle with soup until it becomes very tender, and use the juice as medicine. Or boil it slightly and bake it over a slow fire for use. If it has fetal poison and can hurt someone, you must use a silverware to test it. “Compendium of Materia Medica”
Wu Qiu said: Zihe chariots, in ancient times, did not differentiate between men and women. In modern times, men use men and women use women; when men are sick, they use women, and when women are sick, they use men. The first-born is better, and the second-born is also suitable for a healthy and disease-free woman. Obtain it, place it in clean rice swill, put it in a bamboo vessel, wash off the fascia in long running water, then wash it with frankincense wine, put it in a bamboo basket, dry it and grind it into powder. There are also those that bake and grind them with tiles, boil them with wine and mash them, steam them with a steamer and pound them in the sun, but steaming them is better. Dong Bingyun: Nowadays, people all boil and remove fascia, which is a big mistake. If roasted in fire and boiled in water, most of its offspring will be sterile, but steaming, pounding and mixing with medicine is the best. Fascia is the initial knot of true energy and cannot be removed. “Compendium of Materia Medica”

Due to various factors in modern times, Zihe Che was kicked out of the pharmacopoeia after 2015. The early reference materials are as follows:

Remove the amniotic membrane and umbilical cord from the fresh placenta, rinse it repeatedly until the blood is removed, steam or boil it briefly in boiling water, and then dry it. “Chinese Pharmacopoeia” 2010 Edition 1
Remove the amniotic membrane and umbilical cord from the fresh placenta, rinse it repeatedly until all the blood is removed, add appropriate amount of peppercorns, rice wine or boil it briefly in boiling water, then dry it. It is better if the medicinal materials are complete, yellow in color and have no residual blood in the blood vessels. “National Standards for Processing of Traditional Chinese Medicines” 1988 Edition

My plan is relatively simple. First wash and soak in water, then steam with peppercorns and rice wine, and finally dry at low temperature and smash.

The process of washing and soaking is very difficult to describe. There is no very strange feeling when it is poured out after thawing, but as soon as it is put into the water, the smell of blood immediately hits the nose. This smell is very unacceptable. As everyone knows, I am a chef. When I was a kid, there was a mutton soup restaurant on the way to school. I could often see live sheep being slaughtered at noon. I didn’t find it unacceptable. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have dared to study medicine. However, the smell clearly made me feel uncomfortable and even a little panicked. The smell of blood is different from that of pork, mutton, beef, chicken, pigeon, duck, goose, dog, fish, shrimp, and turtle. The meat smell is more or less the original taste of animals, which is easy to distinguish. This smell is the authentic smell of blood, which should be the so-called human smell. The smell lingered on my hands for a long time, so I suddenly understood what some criminal case documentary literature wanted to express.

古书记载要用长流水清洗,没错,这个血水非常的多,怎么洗都洗不干净,在家里很难达到洗净的效果。它不仅仅是表面的血液残留,还有很多内部的血液,况且我这个是冻过的,已经结成了血栓,基本上很难完全清洗干净。
我对古人所说的要放到河里去清洗非常不理解,诚然河水是非常好的长流水,但是河里没有鱼么?不会有什么小动物来吃?不会有寄生虫?这不是个好选择。
再说用银针抽去紫筋,这应该就是把血管抽出,其实就是把血液放净,新鲜的河车可能比较好操作,但是挑去之后整体就不是很成型,而且我个人觉得这个血应该也属于混沌的一部分,能流出的属于后天,弃之,非常顽固的就留着他吧,毕竟咱是中庸之道。
我泡了多长时间呢,接近12个小时,反复冲洗,基本上每半小时就去冲洗一次。到后来我看怎么还有那么多,就开始揉搓挤压浸泡,个中滋味难以表述。最后我感觉差不多了,正面基本上看不出血液残留(其实里面还有,一加热就出来了),背面的血管我割开之后反复洗也无法彻底洗净,上秤一称,725克。
洗完后放入盆中,加3年陈花雕酒,大约加了400ml,大致与河车齐平,然后又加了一些水,没过河车表面,再放入一小把花椒,直接带气上锅蒸,大火蒸煮七七49分钟,蒸完之后取出,发现成一个盘缩成了一个球,捞出称重202.5克。
下一步就是烘干了,放入前几年买的给兔子做水果干的烘干机,开最大档,70℃恒温烘干,这是一个漫长的过程,紫河车以肉眼可见的速度变黑,当然古人眼神不好,也可以称之为变紫。由于这个过程应该比较漫长,我基本上是白天看一次,晚上看一次,经过一夜的烘干,第二天早上称重109.3克,晚上变成74克,第三天早上61.2克,晚上56克,第四天早上55.7克,这应该是足够干燥了。
最终,得到了一个看上去紫黑紫黑的紫河车,成伞状,颜色黄里透黑,黑色分布不是很均匀,拿起来感觉沉甸甸的,质地非常干脆,闻起来一股子烤肉干味,想一想就很反胃,总体跟现行饮片性状看起来有一些差距。药房里的紫河车不黑,比较白,有些会发黄,这可能是工艺的问题,也可能是科技与狠活。我分析了一下主要应该与一下四个因素有关:
1.我没彻底洗干净,也没有去浮沫,而且经过冷冻,有些内在的血液经加热后会泛到表面,浮沫不去除会附着在表面,这都是颜色变黑的原因。
2.在蒸制的过程中加入了黄酒,黄酒里面有焦糖色,这个色素应该是整体颜色发暗的主要原因。
3.烘干加速了氧化,我的烘干时间过长,高级烘干设备可能会控制的更好。
4.市售饮片可能仍然保留了熏白工艺,也就是大家熟知的硫磺熏。
紫河车炮制过程结束,自己做的还是比较放心,下一步就是打粉灌胶囊了。
都写到这了,我决定来科普一下这个药。
首先,为什么叫紫河车?古人的认识非常玄妙:天地之先,阴阳之祖,乾坤之橐龠,铅汞之匡廓,胚胎将兆,九九数足,我则乘而载之,故谓之河车。其色有红、有绿、有紫,以紫者为良。什么意思呢,人(的灵魂)在投胎化生人形之前,是要乘着一辆车在天地间游走的,人是一个小宇宙,天地是一个大宇宙,人体内有真阴真阳任督二脉,天地间也有真阴真阳任督二脉,精炁在这条任督二脉上不断地行走,就能化生万物,在未成人形之前,承载精炁运行的就是河车,化成人形之后,精炁化为肾之真气,承载着人体的气血运行。所以古人修炼所谓“五气朝元”、“三花聚顶”就是不断地搬运这股真气,实质上就是修炼河车。
由此,我们可以推知,紫河车就是一团混沌,内藏人的先天精气,故可以补先天,治疗各类虚劳证,能够解决根本问题,可以参照西医所谓的“脐带血”、“干细胞”的功能。
那么就有人说了,没事吃点岂不是可以百病不生延年益寿,送上两个字:做梦。
由于存储空间不足,图文版请查看:炮制紫河车始末 (qq.com)

众所周知,鄙人在若干天前得了一枚小棉袄,临进产房时我再三叮嘱护士和助产士一定要把胎盘给我,于是乎得到了一袋热气腾腾的肉。

说实话,我从来没想到这玩意可以那么大,肚子里居然还有地放得下。

由于口罩的原因,医院里只能有一人陪护,这一团混沌就只能先放到冰箱里去“退火”了。

我个人是不排斥使用血肉有情之品的,细细算来这几年用的最多的应该是龟鹿制品,在杭州学习的时候积累了很多龟板和鳖甲的使用经验,来帝都后见识了大师们用鹿茸鹿角的威力。人制品这两年用的也逐渐增多,没戴口罩前哮喘人群还是相当多的,坎炁、紫河车经常出现在处方中,河车大造丸效果也相当不错,随着生育大潮的褪去,越来越多的不孕不育人群都属于疑难杂症,紫河车的地位无人能及。

有小同志劝我直接剁了包饺子算了,但是胆气不支持我这么做,肯定是咽不下去的。。。。

于是我就学习了一下古法炮制过程,历代古籍是这么记载的:

取肥壮者洗净,抽去紫筋切碎,入童便二碗,入铅瓶重汤煮烂,一昼夜方开,杵成膏用。世俗有埋地日久化作清泉者,此名河车水。《雷公炮制药性解》

入急水中,洗净筋膜。或新瓦烘皱成块,新瓦二片,仰覆盖盛,铁线扎牢,盐泥固密,低驾垆上,文火烘之,时或倒颠,免致焦黑,从辰至申,自渐干皱成块也。或密甑蒸烂杵膏。小甑栉密,蒸一昼夜才得糜烂,杵膏。块者可久留,研末入剂;膏者须即用,搀蜜为丸。《本草蒙筌》

清水洗至净白,用铅壶隔汤煮极烂,连汁入药。或煮略熟文火焙干用,有胎毒者伤人,须以银器试之。《本草分经》

吴球曰︰紫河车,古方不分男女。近世男用男,女用女;一云男病用女,女病用男。初生者为佳,次则健壮无病妇人者亦可。取得,以清米泔摆净,竹器盛,于长流水中洗去筋膜,再以乳香酒洗过,篾笼盛之,烘干研末。亦有瓦焙研者,酒煮捣烂者,甑蒸捣晒者,以蒸者为佳。董炳云︰今人皆酒煮火焙及去筋膜,大误矣。火焙水煮,其子多不育,惟蒸捣和药最良。筋膜乃初结真气,不可剔去也。《本草纲目》

现代由于各种因素,紫河车在2015年后被踢出药典,早期参考资料如下:

将新鲜胎盘除去羊膜和脐带,反复冲洗至去净血液,蒸或置沸水中略煮后,干燥。《中国药典》2010年版一部

将新鲜胎盘除去羊膜及脐带,反复冲洗至去尽血液,加适量花椒、黄酒或置沸水中略煮后,干燥。药材以完整、色黄,血管内无残血者为佳。   《全国中药炮制规范》1988版

我的方案就比较简单了,清水先洗再泡,然后用花椒黄酒蒸,最后低温烘干,打碎。

 

洗和泡的过程是非常难以描述的,化冻后刚倒出来并没有什么很异样的感觉,但是一放到水中,血腥味立刻扑鼻而来,这个味道让人非常难以接受。众所周知我是掌勺大厨,小时候上学路上有个羊汤馆,中午经常能看到现宰活羊,我都不觉得有啥难以接受的地方,要不怎么敢去学医呢,但是这个味道明显让人感到不适,甚至有些心慌。这个血腥味和猪肉羊肉牛肉鸡肉鸽子肉鸭肉鹅肉狗肉鱼肉虾肉鳖肉皆不同,那些肉味或多或少都有些动物本来的味道,很容易分辨,而这个味道就是地地道道的血腥味,应该就是所谓的人味。这个味在手上残留的时间很久,所以我当时突然就非常能理解一些刑事案件纪实文学想表达的东西。

古书记载要用长流水清洗,没错,这个血水非常的多,怎么洗都洗不干净,在家里很难达到洗净的效果。它不仅仅是表面的血液残留,还有很多内部的血液,况且我这个是冻过的,已经结成了血栓,基本上很难完全清洗干净。

我对古人所说的要放到河里去清洗非常不理解,诚然河水是非常好的长流水,但是河里没有鱼么?不会有什么小动物来吃?不会有寄生虫?这不是个好选择。

再说用银针抽去紫筋,这应该就是把血管抽出,其实就是把血液放净,新鲜的河车可能比较好操作,但是挑去之后整体就不是很成型,而且我个人觉得这个血应该也属于混沌的一部分,能流出的属于后天,弃之,非常顽固的就留着他吧,毕竟咱是中庸之道。

我泡了多长时间呢,接近12个小时,反复冲洗,基本上每半小时就去冲洗一次。到后来我看怎么还有那么多,就开始揉搓挤压浸泡,个中滋味难以表述。最后我感觉差不多了,正面基本上看不出血液残留(其实里面还有,一加热就出来了),背面的血管我割开之后反复洗也无法彻底洗净,上秤一称,725克。

洗完后放入盆中,加3年陈花雕酒,大约加了400ml,大致与河车齐平,然后又加了一些水,没过河车表面,再放入一小把花椒,直接带气上锅蒸,大火蒸煮七七49分钟,蒸完之后取出,发现成一个盘缩成了一个球,捞出称重202.5克。

下一步就是烘干了,放入前几年买的给兔子做水果干的烘干机,开最大档,70℃恒温烘干,这是一个漫长的过程,紫河车以肉眼可见的速度变黑,当然古人眼神不好,也可以称之为变紫。由于这个过程应该比较漫长,我基本上是白天看一次,晚上看一次,经过一夜的烘干,第二天早上称重109.3克,晚上变成74克,第三天早上61.2克,晚上56克,第四天早上55.7克,这应该是足够干燥了。

最终,得到了一个看上去紫黑紫黑的紫河车,成伞状,颜色黄里透黑,黑色分布不是很均匀,拿起来感觉沉甸甸的,质地非常干脆,闻起来一股子烤肉干味,想一想就很反胃,总体跟现行饮片性状看起来有一些差距。药房里的紫河车不黑,比较白,有些会发黄,这可能是工艺的问题,也可能是科技与狠活。我分析了一下主要应该与一下四个因素有关:

1.我没彻底洗干净,也没有去浮沫,而且经过冷冻,有些内在的血液经加热后会泛到表面,浮沫不去除会附着在表面,这都是颜色变黑的原因。

2.在蒸制的过程中加入了黄酒,黄酒里面有焦糖色,这个色素应该是整体颜色发暗的主要原因。

3.烘干加速了氧化,我的烘干时间过长,高级烘干设备可能会控制的更好。

4.市售饮片可能仍然保留了熏白工艺,也就是大家熟知的硫磺熏。

紫河车炮制过程结束,自己做的还是比较放心,下一步就是打粉灌胶囊了。

都写到这了,我决定来科普一下这个药。

首先,为什么叫紫河车?古人的认识非常玄妙:天地之先,阴阳之祖,乾坤之橐龠,铅汞之匡廓,胚胎将兆,九九数足,我则乘而载之,故谓之河车。其色有红、有绿、有紫,以紫者为良。什么意思呢,人(的灵魂)在投胎化生人形之前,是要乘着一辆车在天地间游走的,人是一个小宇宙,天地是一个大宇宙,人体内有真阴真阳任督二脉,天地间也有真阴真阳任督二脉,精炁在这条任督二脉上不断地行走,就能化生万物,在未成人形之前,承载精炁运行的就是河车,化成人形之后,精炁化为肾之真气,承载着人体的气血运行。所以古人修炼所谓“五气朝元”、“三花聚顶”就是不断地搬运这股真气,实质上就是修炼河车。

由此,我们可以推知,紫河车就是一团混沌,内藏人的先天精气,故可以补先天,治疗各类虚劳证,能够解决根本问题,可以参照西医所谓的“脐带血”、“干细胞”的功能。

那么就有人说了,没事吃点岂不是可以百病不生延年益寿,送上两个字:做梦。

由于存储空间不足,图文版请查看:炮制紫河车始末 (qq.com)

 

 

 

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