When treating diseases, in addition to choosing the right drug, we should also pay attention to the method of taking the drug to achieve the purpose of improving clinical efficacy. Over-the-counter Chinese medicines are made into different dosage forms for different effects, and are usually divided into two major categories: internal and external use. Here we mainly introduce the internal use. Internal use of proprietary Chinese medicines Delivery: Most of the internal use of proprietary Chinese medicines are delivered with warm boiled water, commonly known as swallowing, which is the most common method of internal use. Most of the internal proprietary Chinese medicines such as tablets, pills and capsules are taken by this method. Among them, pills are divided into honey pills (large and small honey pills, water honey pills), water pills, concentrated pills, dripping pills and so on. Small pellets of pills should be taken with warm water, while large honey pills cannot be swallowed as a whole due to the size of the pills, they should be chewed or broken up with clean hands and then taken with warm water. In addition, some of the proprietary Chinese medicine to enhance the efficacy of the medicine can be used to drink to serve, such as in taking Huo Xiang Zheng Qi Pills or Pei Zi Li Zhong Pills for stomach pain, vomiting, etc., can be used to ginger decoction to serve to enhance the role of the drug; dysmenorrhea patients in taking Ai Shen Nuan Gong Pills, can be warm brown sugar water to serve to enhance the role of the drug to disperse cold and activate the blood; in taking tonic Zhong Yi Qi Pills for chronic enteritis, can be used to date decoction to serve to In the treatment of chronic intestinal inflammation, a decoction of jujube can be taken to enhance the role of the drug in nourishing the spleen and benefiting the qi; in the treatment of stroke hemiplegia and mouth and eye distortion with Dahuluo Pill, yellow wine can be used to increase the efficacy of the drug in activating the blood and promoting the circulation. Punching: People often need to punch when taking punch, syrup, cream, punching is to melt the drug with hot boiling water or take it in a mixed suspension. In addition, people in taking some aromatic or precious Chinese medicine, such as ox huang, musk also often need to punch. The patient who can’t swallow or the child often use this method when taking the powder, pill or tablet. Containing: Chinese medicine for acute and chronic pharyngitis and tonsillitis, such as Liu Shen Wan, Grass Coral tablets, Golden Voice Throat, etc., often need to be contained, that is, the drug is contained in the mouth, slowly dissolved, and then slowly swallowed. Melting: Colloidal, viscous and soluble drugs, such as gum and deer horn gum, often need to be melted when taking, that is, the drug is melted with boiling water or yellow wine and then taken. Chinese medicine soup taking method ① take before meals: the location of the disease in the lower, such as liver and kidney deficiency or waist below the disease, intestinal disease, etc., take before meals, the medicine is easy to reach down, easy to be absorbed, the efficacy is good. ② after meals: the disease is located in the upper, such as heart, lung, chest and diaphragm, gastric and epigastric diseases, stimulation of the digestive tract, the drug can make the drug up; toxic drugs, taken after meals, can avoid absorption too quickly and cause poisoning. ③ cool serving: cold medicine cold after serving, such as the treatment of fever, etc.; hot medicine cold after serving. Such as the treatment of true cold and false fever, the effect is good. Antidotes, antiemetics and antipyretics should be taken cold. ④Warm serving: where the calm medicine, tonic medicine are appropriate to take at about 35 ℃ warm, can benefit the gas, add. ⑤ Hot serving: all medicines for cold and flu and for relieving symptoms and dispelling cold should be taken in large mouths while hot to promote sweating. The same should be done for medicines to dispel cold and pass blood vessels.