Silver Chaihu [Specialty of Yinchuan, Ningxia]

What is Yin Chai Hu? Authentic specialty of Yinchuan, Ningxia: Silver Chaihu

Summary:Do you want to know what Silver Chaihu is? This article is a detailed introduction to the special product of Yinchuan, Ningxia - Silver Chaihu. It was compiled and edited by the editorial team of China Specialty Network after reviewing and collecting relevant information on Silver Chaihu. The full text takes about 4 minutes to read, mainly including the basic introduction of Silver Chaihu and its nutritional value? What are the product characteristics of Yinchaihu? How to distinguish between genuine and fake silver Chaihu? Wait

Basic Introduction of Silver Bupleurum

Silver Bupleurum is the root of Silver Bupleurum, a plant in the Caryophyllaceae family. Mainly produced in the northwest and Inner Mongolia. Native plants grow in dry grasslands and crevices on mountain slopes. They prefer warm or cool climates, are cold resistant, and avoid water immersion. They are most likely to grow in sandy soils. Sweet taste, slightly cold nature, returning to the liver and stomach meridian. Effect: Relieve deficiency heat and clear dry heat. The clinical name is Silver Bupleurum

What is the nutritional value of silver Chaihu

Silver Chaihu is cylindrical in shape with occasional branches, measuring 15-40cm in length and 0.5-2.5cm in diameter. The surface is light brownish yellow to light brown, with twisted longitudinal wrinkles and root scars, often with hole like or disc-shaped depressions, commonly known as "sand holes". When broken from the sand holes, fine sand can be seen scattered from the brown cracks, and the root head is slightly enlarged, with dense residue of wart like protrusions on buds, stems or rhizomes, commonly known as "pearl disks". Hard and brittle in texture, easy to break, uneven in cross-section, relatively loose, with cracks, thin skin, and radiating yellow and white textures on the wood. Mild aroma, sweet taste. The cultivated product has branches, with twisted lower parts and a diameter of 0.3-1.2cm. The surface is light brownish yellow or light yellow brown, with fine and obvious longitudinal wrinkles, and fine root scars often appearing as point like depressions. There are many wart like protrusions on the root head. There are hardly any sand holes. The texture of the broken surface is relatively tight, with few cracks, slightly powdery, and the radial texture of the wood is not very obvious. The taste is slightly sweet

How to distinguish between genuine and fake silver Chaihu

There are three distinguishing characteristics of Silver Bupleurum chinense: firstly, the "pearl disc head" with wart like protrusions on the root head

Secondly, there are brown dot shaped "trachoma" with obvious leftward twisted wrinkles and depressions on the surface

Thirdly, the cross-section shows a radiating texture of yellow and white, with a slightly sweet taste

On the other hand, the confused silk stone bamboo has multiple aboveground stem residues at the root tip, with slightly tilted and twisted lines to the right, and yellow and white irregular vascular bundles on the cross section, with a bitter and spicy taste; The lantern shaped flea ornament has a conical root with fine ring patterns at the root tip. Some can see several aboveground stem residues, and the cross-section has radial patterns with a light taste; Dry wheat bottle grass has cylindrical roots with branching and residual stems at the root tip, longitudinal wrinkles on the surface, yellow white cross-section, and a slightly sweet taste. In addition, circular silk stone bamboo, narrow leaf silk stone bamboo, rope grass, female wolfberry, etc. are not widely sold, so they are omitted