The Path to Wellness - Indispensable Sealwort Extracts

Once you embark on the road to health, sooner or later, you will run into the sealwort. Taoism's immortal style of Taoism and sealwort has a great affinity, the main ingredient of Peking Shen Dan is sealwort extracted and concentrated by adding salt fried black beans and ink powder to add honey to make pills.

The "Chinese Pharmacopoeia" contains three species of sealwort, namely, Sealwort, Multi-flowered Sealwort and Polygonatum kingianum. All of them can be used as sealwort, and all of them have large-scale artificial cultivation. However, they all have different rhizome shapes.

The rhizomes of Polygonatum kingianum are the thickest of all, so sometimes they are called large Solomonseal. The rhizomes of the multifloral sealwort, on the other hand, usually have a distinctly bead-like shape. They are similar to, but not as large as, the Yunnan yellow essence. Their rhizomes grow only one bead a year. That is, one bead represents one year. The rhizome of this species of sealwort does not have such rounded nodules. What we eat usually its sealwort's rhizome part.

Sometimes you can see fresh sealwort for sale in the market. However, sealwort can not be eaten in raw. This is because raw sealwort contains irritating calcium oxalate needle crystals, which can cause numbness in the mouth and tongue when consumed directly. It needs to be concocted or stewed for a long time before it can be consumed directly. Repeated steaming not only changes the texture of sealwort from hard to soft, but also the smell gradually becomes stronger. The bitter and numbing taste disappears and the sweet flavour begins to emerge. Soft, sweet and sour in the mouth with a slight bit of burnt bitterness, like a dried fruit, and the overall taste is refreshed. As a medicinal and food ingredient. You can make tea with it, or use it to make soup or porridge. The main nutrients in sealwort are substances such as polysaccharides and saponins. It nourishes the kidney and spleen, and nourishes the Qi and blood.

In today's fast-paced life, we have concentrated sealwort extracts into sealwort extracts, which can be made into pills, tablets, granules, etc. for easy use.