A plant-based beverage called "Yigancao"

Yigan Grass Herbal Tea is a plant-based beverage produced by Guizhou Miaoguniang Holding Group. It is made from medicinal and edible plants mainly produced in the Guizhou Plateau, following the secret recipe passed down for 18 generations in the Zhao family of the Buyi ethnic group in Guiding County and the deep mountain spring water in Guizhou Plateau. Through modern advanced craftsmanship, it is extracted, filtered, filled, and sterilized at high temperatures. It is a 100% plant-based beverage, At the same time, they are: national intangible cultural heritage protection products, national geographical indication protection products, national invention patent protection products, and Guizhou time-honored brand products.

 

Chinese name: Yigancao

Brand name: Miao Girl

Product attributes: Beverages

Storage method: can be stored at room temperature or refrigerated

Herbal formula: Houttuynia cordata, dandelion, gardenia, raspberry, Kuding tea, kudzu root, goji berry, jujube, licorice.

Product characteristics:

Without adding sugar, coloring, or preservatives, it maintains its original taste and characteristics of natural plants.

It has auxiliary effects such as generating saliva and quenching thirst, clearing fire and removing heat.

For frequent drinkers, drinking before, during, and after drinking can significantly alleviate post drinking discomfort; It is also suitable for people who are not suitable for consuming sugar.

It can be consumed cold or heated; Heating to 85 to 90 degrees Celsius for better taste, can also remove oral odor, and relieve greasiness.

 

Secret recipe inheritance:

The recorded inheritance of the Yigancao secret recipe began more than 130 years ago, when Zhao Baoyin (1830-1894), the founder of the Zhao family in Tanghuangzhai, Yunwu Town, Guiding County, was the eighth generation inheritor.

As a folk doctor of the Buyi ethnic group, Zhao Baoyin, the founder of the Zhao family, followed the tradition of "divine medicine and two solutions" in treating diseases. When seeking medical treatment for his family members, he usually performed both "divine techniques" and "medicinal techniques" together, which is highly mysterious.

It is against this background that Zhao Baoyin, the founder of the Zhao family in Tanghuang Village, Yunwu Town, Guiding County, has developed his own secret recipe for treating and preventing liver diseases based on the accumulation and inheritance of the Zhao family's history.

The secret recipe of Yigancao has been passed down from generation to generation in the Zhao family of Tanghuang Village, Yunwu Town, Guiding County. When it reached the 17th generation descendant - Zhao Guolin, this inherited secret recipe experienced a significant turning point in its development process.

On the basis of in-depth research, Zhao Guolin developed the medicine Yigan Jiedu Tea and a beverage with health and liver protection effects - Yigan Grass Cold Tea - using the secret formula of Yigan Grass to better and more widely play its role in treating, preventing, and exercising.

Later, due to settling abroad, Zhao Guolin passed on the secret recipe of Yigancao to He Qinghong in 2012. In December of the same year, the Guizhou Provincial Department of Culture approved He Qinghong as the provincial representative inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage project of Buyi people's liver disease prevention and treatment Yigancao secret recipe, and he is the 18th generation inheritor of Buyi medicine Yigancao.

Inheritor He Qinghong, male, Han ethnicity, born in October 1968, currently serves as the Chairman of Guizhou Miaoguniang Holding Group.

After becoming the inheritor of the secret formula of Yigancao, He Qinghong actively devoted himself to the inheritance and research of the formula of Yigancao.

We have successively organized and implemented research projects such as "Deep Research on Yigancao Herbal Tea Process" with "Yigancao" formula as the core and "Development of Health Products Using Houttuynia cordata as the Raw Material". These two projects have also received support from the High tech Special Fund of the Provincial Department of Science and Technology and the Modernization Special Fund of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the Provincial Department of Science and Technology.

The formulation and filing application of product enterprise standards with "Yigancao" formula as the core have been completed, including product research and development, industrialization, and large-scale production transformation with "Yigancao" formula as the core.

We have established a production base for Yigancao products and completed the technical renovation and expansion project for the annual production of 50000 tons of Miao girl brand "Yigancao" herbal tea in December 2013.

He has successively won more than 20 honors, including the "First Guizhou Excellent Young Private Entrepreneur", "Guizhou Excellent Constructor of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics", "The Ninth and Tenth National Star of Entrepreneurship", "The Second, Third and Fourth Star of Entrepreneurship in Guizhou Province", "exemplary individual of Guizhou Province in Anti freezing and Safeguarding People's Livelihood", and won the first prize, "The Third Nomination Award for Moral Model in Guizhou Province", "Guizhou Model of Patriotic Support for the Army", "Top Ten Tax Movers in Qiannan Prefecture", "The Star of Private Economic and Social Contribution in Qiannan Prefecture", "The exemplary individual of Qiannan Prefecture in Building National Unity and Progress Demonstration".

 

Secret Recipe Chronicle

Yigan Grass was invented by Zhao Baoyin (1830-1894), the eighth generation ancestor of the Zhao family, in Tanghuang Village, Yunwu Town, Guiding County.
The secret formula of Yigancao was passed down in the Zhao family of Guiding County from 1830 to 2012.

On November 26, 2006, the People's Government of Guiding County approved the inclusion of "Yigancao" in the county-level intangible cultural heritage protection list in document Guifu Letter [2006] No. 96, confirming the inheritance lineage of "Yigancao" in the Zhao family.

On May 31, 2007, the People's Government of Guizhou Province issued document No. [2007] 16, approving the inclusion of "Yigancao" as a representative work of the second batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage.

In December 2012, the Department of Culture of Guizhou Province approved He Qinghong as the provincial-level representative inheritor of the Buyi ethnic group's secret formula for preventing and treating liver diseases and benefiting the liver.

On November 11, 2014, the State Council issued Document No. [2014] 59, approving the inclusion of "Yigancao" in the fourth batch of national intangible cultural heritage representative projects.

On August 10, 2015, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of China (No. 96 of 2015) announced the approval of "Guiding Yigancao Herbal Tea" as a geographical indication protected product.

On November 2, 2016, the China National Intellectual Property Administration granted a patent for the formula invention of "a kind of herb beverage beneficial to liver", patent number: 2284644.

In January 2021, Yigancao was rated as the third batch of Guizhou time-honored brands in Guizhou Province.