Basic Introduction to Yongding Multipurpose Tea
The creation of “Yongding Multipurpose Tea” dates back over 200 years. It is formulated using more than 30 authentic Chinese medicinal herbs through traditional Chinese pharmaceutical techniques. Due to its excellent formula, proven efficacy, long history, and unique cultural background, it has been widely loved by the public and enjoys a high reputation both at home and abroad. The approval of geographical indication product protection for “Yongding Multipurpose Tea” holds significant importance in effectively regulating the product market, maintaining brand reputation, and promoting the healthy development of the characteristic industry.
Nutritional Value
Multipurpose Tea: It disperses wind and resolves exterior symptoms, strengthens the spleen and harmonizes the stomach, expels phlegm and removes dampness. It is used for external contraction of wind-cold, abdominal pain due to food accumulation, vomiting and diarrhea, chest fullness and abdominal distension.
Product Characteristics
Appearance: Light reddish-brown, small, flat, round blocks with complete rounded edges. Uniform in size, thickness, and color (diameter 21mm, thickness 10mm).
Color: Brown granules or light reddish-brown flat round blocks, with uniform color. After steeping or boiling, the tea has a light reddish-brown color.
Scent: Possesses a pure, clear sandalwood fragrance, without any moldy or other off odors.
Taste: Slightly bitter, with a strong aroma and a lingering aftertaste that refreshes the mind and clears the stomach and intestines upon consumption.
Manufacturing Method
(1) Processing Technology Flow: Purification → Preparation → Formulation → Pulverization → Sterilization → Granulation → Drying → Packaging → Finished Product Storage.
(2) Key Process Requirements:
① Purification: Raw materials are purified through selection, air separation, water washing, sifting, cutting, scraping, removal, brushing, rubbing, scorching, rolling, and soaking.
② Preparation: After slicing and softening through soaking, the herbs are promptly dried and processed according to traditional methods.
③ Pulverization: The purified herbs are poured into a pulverizer, ground into medium powder, and sieved (sieve mesh specification ≥80).
④ Sterilization: Powdered herbs, glutinous rice flour, and water are mixed in a mixer for 10 minutes to form a soft mass. This mixture is then placed in a multi-functional Chinese medicine sterilizer for steam sterilization for approximately 60 minutes.
⑤ Granulation: The soft mass after sterilization is put into a granulator for granulation, using a 16-mesh sieve for granulation.
⑥ Drying: The granulated material is evenly spread on baking trays to a thickness of 3.5 cm to 4.5 cm and dried in an oven. Drying starts at 40°C to 45°C and is raised to 60°C to 70°C, taking 8 to 13 hours. The granules are turned every 3 hours during this period, and the moisture content after drying is controlled to be less than 10%.
⑦ Packaging: Yongding Multipurpose Tea granules are packaged using an automatic packaging machine; or qualified granules are pressed into tablets using a tablet press and then packaged using an automatic tablet packaging machine.
⑧ Storage: Products are stored after being packaged in different specifications and outer packaging.