I. Time to take medicine The time to take medicine should be decided according to the condition. 1, the disease in the upper jiao (heart, lungs): should be served after meals; 2, the disease in the lower jiao (bladder, intestines): should be served before meals; 3, heat detoxification drugs, laxative drugs, tonic drugs should be served on an empty stomach, when the stomach is empty and easy to absorb. The so-called fasting refers to an hour before breakfast or an hour after dinner; 4, deworming drugs should be taken in the morning on an empty stomach, before taking the medicine should drink some sugar water, which can improve the effect of killing worms; 5, attack drugs should be stopped immediately after the stool; 6, tranquilizers, tonic drugs, drugs to delay aging should be taken before bedtime; sleeping pills should be taken 2 hours before bedtime; 7, malaria drugs should be taken 2 hours before the attack. 8, special drugs should be special to take: such as digestive drugs before taking a small amount of food to help the drug effect; emergency drugs are not time, chronic diseases, more pills, pills, creams, wine, should be taken regularly. If it is difficult to sweat, you can shorten the time to take the medicine to facilitate sweating. Second, the temperature of taking medicine 1, soup in the treatment of general diseases are appropriate to use warm serving method, for special treatment needs should be taken according to the special serving method. 2, where the qi class of drugs, heat is easy to relax, cool is increased stagnation. 3, blood activation, blood tonic, blood cooling, hemostatic drugs, cold is stagnation, heat is boiling over. 4, where to take antidotes, it is advisable to take cold, so that the stagnation of the poison can be easily discharged, hot is to increase the poison of the appropriate dispersion. 5, where hot diseases should be served cold (such as four tiger soup), while cold diseases should be served hot, dispersing the attack to help the power of the medicine. 6, blood circulation to reach the tendons and bones is appropriate to take hot, and to collect astringent solid essence of the agent to stop bleeding is appropriate to take cold. 7, to remove annoyance to quench thirst and dispel the summer heat of the agent should be served hot, relieving the surface of the drug is mostly pungent products, the function of spreading the muscle surface, should be served hot. 8, heat-clearing drugs and anti-summer medicine should be served cold. 9, cold medicine for hot diseases should be served warm; hot medicine for cold diseases should be served cold. 10. For tonics that should not be taken cold can cause gastrointestinal irritation and abdominal pain or vomiting after taking them, rubbing the tongue with ginger can stop it. Third, the dose of Chinese medicine 1, Chinese medicine soup are decocted 2 to 3 times after the combined liquid, and then according to the clinical needs of the medicine in several doses, in general, each time to take 150 ml is appropriate. 2, fever patients taking fever detoxifying agents, the liquid can be slightly more to help the power of the medicine. 3, thirst-quenching drugs, the amount of liquid should also be more, and can be taken frequently in lieu of tea. 4, strong people take more medicine, weak people such as children and seriously ill people, the amount of medicine should be less. 5, the correct number of times to take medicine: general soup is divided into two times a day in the morning and evening, detoxifying drugs can be taken 3 to 4 times a day. Rehydration medicine should be taken once in the morning and once in the evening, sweating medicine can be added 2 to 3 times, containing the throat juice can be taken a few more times.