What are the dosage forms of Chinese medicine?

Common dosage forms of Chinese medicine are: 1, soup: the drug is prepared, water or yellow wine, or water and wine half soaked, and then decocted for a certain period of time, and then remove the slag to take the juice, called soup. Generally for internal use, soup is characterized by fast absorption, can quickly play a therapeutic effect, and easy to add or subtract the use. 2.Bulk: the drug is crushed into a uniformly mixed dry powder, there are two kinds of internal and external use. Internal use of powder end fine amount of small, can be taken directly, there are also coarse powder, boiled with water to take the juice when used. External use of bulk generally as a topical, mixed with the sore surface or the diseased parts, but also for the eyes, blowing throat and other external use, bulk has the advantages of simple production; easy to take and carry, faster absorption, save herbs, not easy to spoil. 3, pills: the drug is finely ground, honey; water or rice paste, batter, wine, vinegar, juice, etc. as an excipient made of round solid dosage form. Pills are slowly absorbed, long-lasting, and small, easy to take, carry, and store, and are also a commonly used dosage form. Clinically used pills are honey pills, water pills, paste pills, concentrated pills and other kinds of pills. 4.Ointment: A dosage form made by decocting and concentrating the drug with water or vegetable oil. There are two kinds: internal and external use. Internal creams have three kinds of creams: infusion, dip, decoction, and external creams are divided into two kinds of soft creams and hard creams. 5.Tan: There are also two kinds of internal and external use, and there is no fixed dosage form. Some of the drugs are finely ground, and some are made into various shapes by adding paste or viscous juice, and some of them are also a kind of pills. Externally used elixir, only for surgery. 6, wine agent: wine agent ancient name ‘wine sweet’, later called “medicine wine”. Is the wine as a solvent, generally with white wine or yellow wine infusion drugs, or cooked with warm, dregs for internal or external use. Liquor is not suitable for patients with Yin deficiency and fire. 7, tea: is a solid preparation made of coarse drug powder mixed with binder. The use of boiling water to soak the juice instead of tea, so called tea. 8, medicine dew: more fresh drugs containing volatile components, put in water and distilled by heating, the distillate collected is the medicine dew. The smell is light, easy to take orally. 9, ingot, cake: the drug is finely ground, alone or with appropriate paste powder, honey and excipients mixed into a different shape of a solid preparation. Can be used externally or taken internally, grinded to mix or grinded juice to serve, also grinded juice to apply to the affected area. If made into cakes, it is a cake agent. 10, strip agent: also known as paper twist, is the mulberry paper sticky medicine after twisting into a thin line, or mulberry paper twist into a thin strip and then sticky drug surface into, is a common preparation of Chinese medicine surgery. There will be moxa leaves and medicine research coarse powder, wrapped in paper and made into round strips; for moxibustion treatment, also known as “moxa”. 11, thread agent: the silk or cotton thread soaked in the liquid, and cooked with the liquid, dried and made a kind of external preparation, used to ligate the fistula or superfluous flesh, so that it will atrophy and fall off. 12, moxibustion agent: moxa leaves pounded like velvet, twisted into a certain size shape, placed on the body surface of certain Yu points or affected parts, ignited and smoked, so that the occurrence of warmth or burning pain, in order to achieve the purpose of prevention or treatment of a topical dosage form. 13, syrup agent: refers to a saturated aqueous solution of sucrose containing drugs or without drugs. The saturated aqueous solution of sucrose without drugs is called monosaccharide syrup or syrup, which is generally used as an excipient or flavoring agent; the syrup containing drugs is made by decocting and boiling the juice of the drugs into a concentrated solution and adding the right amount of sucrose to dissolve it. 14.Tablet: Chinese medicine is processed or refined and mixed with auxiliary materials, and pressed into round tablet dosage form. The tablet dosage is accurate and the volume is small. 15.Punch: Refine Chinese medicine into thick paste, add appropriate amount of powdered sugar and other excipients (starch, yam powder, dextrin, etc.), mix well, knead into a dough, pass through 10-12 mesh sieve to make granules, then pass the granules through 8-14 mesh sieve after drying at 4-66℃, so that the granules made Uniform and consistent. The dose is easy to absorb moisture and should be stored in a closed container, usually packed in plastic bags in doses. Pills and tablets act quickly, and are smaller and lighter than tonics and syrups, which are easy to transport and carry; and easy to take. 16.Injection: also known as injection. It is a preparation made of sterilized solution of Chinese medicine after extraction, refinement and preparation for subcutaneous, intramuscular and intravenous injection. It has the advantages of accurate dosage, rapid action, convenient administration, and the drug is not affected by digestive juices and food and can enter human tissues directly. In addition to the above-mentioned common dosage forms, there are also sponge, oil, aerosol, suppository, cream, capsule, five surgical preparations and other dosage forms.