As the weather warms, winter worms and grass in the tibetan highlands are entering the shanghai market in the course of the annual digging season. However, in the face of the variety of herb products on the market, which are highly priced, many citizens are sceptical when they choose to buy them: how can we tell? The journalists visited the shanghai herbal herbs shop, which has the reputation of “the first of its kind” and invited practitioners to help the citizens。
A hundred-year-old store to keep people safe
The shanghai herbs factory is a 100-year-old chinese medicine symbol whose predecessor dates back to the mingjiang herbs store created in 1924. The shop, which features “the sale of medicines and the combination of medicines”, focuses on chinese herbal medicine for cancer and complications, which is the largest retail volume in the city. As the “first family of herbal herbs”, the herbs store, which has been performing the function of identifying herbs for the public, has accumulated extensive experience in the quality control of chinese herbs。
In recent years, wild winter worms have become increasingly scarce in their summer grass, and production has declined from year to year. At the same time, there has been a major breakthrough in artificial winter worm summer grass breeding techniques. According to the latest reports, our scientific team has been able to plant all of the summer grass in winter in the plains, at a price that varies greatly between wild grass and artificial grass. The average price of wild grass is between $300 and $600 per gram, while the average price per gram of tundra grown by intelligent ecology has fallen to about $120. Large price differentials have led to a small number of undesired merchants selling artificial grass as wild grass, and consumers may, with little care, buy “parity” at higher prices。
Practice pharmacist elaborates on the five-step identification method
The master of pharmacology and pharmacist hobo, who is the chief pharmacist in the herbal pharmacist's store, drew the following five identification points for the public:
A look at the worm: solid and loose. Wild winter worms produce their summer grass from high altitudes, their flesh is strong and their body is full of nature, while the artificially grown worms are relatively loose and soft. Under natural conditions, wild grasses are wrinkled through natural wind dry dehydration; artificial weeds are treated more often with frozen drying, with a more full and integrated appearance。
Second-guess: big and thin. The nick is the "grass" part of the worm's grass. Wild winter worms have thicker sub-heads, which tend to wrap their heads in the base, while the artificially raised sub-heads are relatively thin and do not fully cover their heads, which are clearly visible. The head of the wild worm is similar to the body's thickness, while artificial weeds tend to show a tendency to sharpen the head。
Three smells: rich and thin. Wild winters and summer grass produce a rich fragrance of fungus, mixed with a unique fragrance that tastes almost like grass mushrooms, while the fragrance of artificially grown weeds is usually lighter, the fragrance of the fungus is weak and the smell is not visible。
Four sense weights: light and heavy at the same size. The wild worm has a strong herb and is slightly heavier in size than the artificial herb. In the case of 3,000 wildworm grasses, for example, 0. 3 grams per treaty, while the same size of artificial weeds is only about 0. 2 grams, equivalent to 5,000 specifications. Consumers are able to compare the same amount of grass when they choose to buy, and the sun is often more reliable。
Five-point cut: any signs of digestion identified. Insects are cut apart to observe faults, and wild winter worms often have various shapes of digestive tracts, such as round, s-shaped or short-wire lines, while traces of artificial grasses are less visible。
Scientific identification is advanced and formal channels are more reliable
In particular, hobo cautioned that the identification of worm grass should consider multiple characteristics in a comprehensive manner, rather than relying on a single indicator. When the city is elected to buy weed, preference should be given to brand-owned stores, large pharmacies or well-reputable official channels, so as not to be greedy about cheap informal channels of “weedy wild grass”。
