Home-style decoctor endowed with steamy boiling function, and method of preparing red ginseng extract using the same

摘要

A home-style decoctor endowed with steamy boiling function includes a main body (110) equipped with a heater (114); a heating vessel (120); a support plate (122a) for allowing a to-be-boiled object to be placed above the surface of water stored in the heating vessel; means (140) for supplying water for boiling into the heating vessel so that the to-be-object is immersed; a steam collector (130) for gathering steam produced when the to-be-boiled object is decocted with water; means for condensing the steam collected into the steam collector; and steam/condensed water guiding means for leading the steam present in the heating vessel to the steam collector and the condensed water placed in the steam collector to the heating vessel. With such construction, undried or white ginseng can become red ginseng extract by producing such useful components as several kinds of phenolic compounds and maltol, anti-oxidants, and ginsenosides Rg and Rh through steam-boiling, drying and re-boiling.