芍药属多年生草本植物,花大且美,其根加工后即为常用药材白芍。农村房前屋后均可栽种。每年白露至秋分期间收获时,将芽头与根割开,芽头根据大小分成数块,每块保留芽苞3—4个,可作种苗随收获随切芽随栽植。而割下的根去除泥土后,便可按下列步骤加工成白芍。 1.修削 用刀切去芍根头尾,端面切平,修去小支根,并削平凸出部分,使表面平整。注意不可用手撕扯,以防根条上出现麻眼。 2.擦白 又称创皮。修好的芍根用竹片刮尽外层粗皮,不见紫黑色的外皮后,放入粉浆液中浸6小时左右,使 Peony is a perennial herb, flowers and the United States, the root processing is commonly used herbs white peony root. Rural house housing can be planted. During the harvest from autumn to autumn, the buds and roots are cut open, and the buds are divided into several pieces according to their size. Each buds buds 3-4 preserved, with seedlings can be used as cuttings with harvest. And cut the roots to remove the soil, they can be processed into white peony root according to the following steps. 1. Cut the knife cut to the root and tail of the root of Peganum, end cut flat, repair to a small branch, and flattened bulge, so that the surface smooth. Be careful not to use hand tear, to prevent the emergence of hemp root bar. 2. Rubbed white, also known as skin. Shao root repaired with bamboo scraping the outer layer of rough skin, purple and black skin can not see, into the slurry immersed in about 6 hours, so