What is the latest market price of Anemarrhena rhizome per jin?
Anemarrhena rhizome, also known as rabbit oil grass, big reed water, mother grass, garlic clove grass, goat beard root, ground ginseng, etc., is one of the common Chinese medicinal herbs. Its main producing areas are Hebei, Shanxi and other places, and it is also produced in Henan, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Shaanxi and Northeast China, but Yixian in Hebei and Qinxian in Shanxi are the authentic producing areas. Now let us take a look at the market price of Anemarrhena rhizome!
The market price of Anemarrhena rhizome
The market price of selected Anemarrhena rhizome is 10 yuan-12 yuan/kg, and the market price of cultivated Anemarrhena rhizome is about 12 yuan-15 yuan/kg, but prices vary depending on quality and market.
Product processing of Anemarrhena rhizome
1. Hairy Anemarrhena rhizome: Remove the above-ground stems, leaves, fibrous roots and sediment from the harvested Anemarrhena rhizome, then repeatedly sun-dry until dry, or roast over a slow fire, turning frequently to ensure even heating, and when half-dry, take it out and sun-dry until fully dry.
2. Smooth Anemarrhena rhizome: Remove the above-ground stems, leaves, fibrous roots and sediment from the harvested Anemarrhena rhizome, scrape off the outer skin while fresh, then sun-dry or oven-dry.
Quality identification of Anemarrhena rhizome
1. Hairy Anemarrhena rhizome: Hairy Anemarrhena rhizome is elongated, slightly curved, somewhat flat, occasionally branched, with a concave groove on the upper surface, densely arranged ring-like nodes, and densely grown yellow-brown residual leaf bases on the nodes, growing from both sides toward the upper part of the rhizome; the lower surface is raised and slightly wrinkled, with sunken or raised dot-like root scars, and one end has a pale yellow residual stem and leaf scar, commonly called “golden head wrap”; the surface is yellow-brown to brown, hard in texture, easily broken, the fracture surface is yellow-white, slightly granular, with a faint odor, slightly sweet and slightly bitter taste, and chewy with stickiness, more than 6 cm long, more than 0.6 cm wide and flat, free of impurities, insect damage and mildew, general goods.
2. Smooth Anemarrhena rhizome: Smooth Anemarrhena rhizome, also called Anemarrhena rhizome flesh, is flat and round-strip shaped, with the outer skin completely removed; the surface is yellow-white or brown-yellow, hard in texture, the fracture surface is pale yellow-white, granular, with a faint odor, slightly sweet and slightly bitter taste, and chewy with stickiness, regardless of length, more than 0.5 cm wide and flat, free of rotten heads, impurities, insect damage and mildew, general goods.