Roses can not only be used for ornamental purposes but also as a medicine. Besides being used to brew tea and water, roses can also be used to make wine. Freshly picked roses should be collected and cleaned, then soaked in medicinal wine to have the effect of beauty and youth. It is of great value for regulating menstruation and improving the recovery of Qi and blood in the body. Roses themselves are also a type of spice. Regular consumption of roses can ensure a fragrant body smell and reduce the greasiness in sweat.

Properties

Bitter and sweet in taste, slightly warm in nature. It can regulate qi, relieve depression, transform dampness and harmonize the middle-jiao, activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis. It contains volatile oil (rose oil), mainly consisting of camphor, neroli, eugenol, phenylethanol, lauric alcohol, benzyl alcohol, linalool, and phenyl ethyl acetate, as well as quercetin, bitter substances, tannins, gallic acid, carotene, red pigment, and other components. It is used for disharmony of liver and stomach, epigastric and abdominal pain, chest stuffiness, nausea, decreased appetite, or diarrhea; irregular menstruation in women, contusions and injuries, swelling and pain; blood stasis and bleeding, hemoptysis, epistaxis; initial stage of boils or mastitis.

The function of rose

1. Beauty

Rose beauty tea is a new generation of beauty tea, which has a significant effect on the removal of freckles. It also has the characteristics of nourishing the face, anti-inflammatory, and moistening the throat. Drinking method: take 4 to 5 roses and put them in a cup, with the flowers floating on the surface. The soup color is light and the fragrance is elegant, making it an ideal beverage for beauty and health. Rose tea is mild and suitable for both men and women. It can soothe emotions, balance endocrine, replenish blood and Qi, beautify the face and skin, and have a regulating effect on the liver and stomach. It can also eliminate fatigue and improve physical fitness. Rose tea also has the effects of aiding digestion and reducing fat, so it can help in weight loss, which is most suitable for women who are overweight due to endocrine disorders. It can regulate Qi and blood, regulate female physiological problems; most importantly, its beauty and anti-aging effects can remove freckles on the skin, making the skin fair and natural, and can also help prevent wrinkles. The weight loss for those with liver depression and qi stagnation can drink more, which is helpful for weight loss; it has the effects of breast enhancement and regulating menstruation; and it can also moisten the intestines and relieve constipation. It is a good product for beauty, health, and weight loss. Due to the strong floral fragrance of rose tea, it is also effective in treating halitosis, and long-term drinking can improve sleep. The fragrance of rose tea is light and elegant, and it is best to drink it after meals. Because rose tea has astringent effects, those with constipation should not drink too much; pregnant women should avoid taking rose tea.

2. Medicinal use

The essential oil of roses made from the flower body is a high-grade fragrance. The flowers are used in medicine, with the function of regulating qi and promoting blood circulation, relaxing the liver and relieving depression, mainly treating symptoms such as liver and stomach qi pain, decreased appetite, nausea, irregular menstruation, and bruising.

Roses, as edible medicine, are officially recorded in the ‘Materia Medica of Foods’. The folk commonly add sugar to hot water with roses for drinking, which is both sweet and delicious and can promote blood circulation. Drinking rose wine can relax the tendons and promote blood circulation, and can treat joint pain. Since ancient times, roses have been distilled into rose pure essential oil, which has a fragrant smell and significant efficacy. ‘Compendium of Materia Medica’: ‘Rose pure essential oil has a fragrant smell and a light taste, can harmonize the blood and calm the liver, nourish the stomach and broaden the chest to relieve depression.

Fresh rose flowers are picked out, weighed, placed in a plastic box, and rubbed evenly with 30% light fragrance白酒 of the flower weight. Then, put them into non-toxic plastic bags, with 10 kilograms of flowers per bag, and immediately return to the unit, pack them into ceramic pots, press them down, and then marinate the fresh flowers with light fragrance Daqu wine. Then seal the jar immediately, and the marinating time should be more than 3 months.

3. Distillation

The distillation equipment is an aluminum 20-liter pot. The condenser is a glass straight condenser in series with three heat sources, each of which is 3 kilowatts.

Process requirements: First, turn on the 4 kilovolt-ampere 50 cycles/second voltage regulator to 220 volts, discard 50 milliliters of low-boiling point substances, collect 500 milliliters of wine head, and when the alcohol content drops to 55% (volume), collect the wine tail. The flow time is 6 to 7 hours, and the finished product wine alcohol content requirement is 75 to 80% (volume), and the esterification storage time is 1 to 2 months.

4. Preparation

Preparation requirements

5. Diatomaceous earth filtration

Take 30 grams of No. 37 diatomaceous earth, dilute it with distilled water, pour it into a funnel lined with filter paper, and use a vacuum pump to draw it into a filter cake. Then add another layer of filter paper on top to prevent the filter cake from being broken when pouring off the filtrate. First, rinse with a light fragrance sake, and then pour the rose wine for filtration.

The filtered rose wine is checked under a 1500 times magnifying microscope for any remaining diatomaceous earth, the pH value should not change significantly, the wine should be colorless and transparent, and no sediment should form after long-term storage.