Once October is over, it’s time to take poultices for tonic. It is a semi-fluid dosage made by repeatedly decocting Chinese herbal medicine, removing the slag and extracting the juice, and then adding sugar or honey after evaporation and concentration, mainly for the long-term treatment of chronic deficiency diseases and for nourishing health. Paste prescription has the advantages of evidence-based treatment, medicine and food, and good taste, and it can make more reasonable and effective use of many medicinal materials, specifically in the following aspects: First, it can make reasonable use of some expensive medicinal materials. Some drugs have significant curative effects, but the quantity is scarce, expensive, and the dosage is often very little, it is difficult to use in the soup, generally only in a small amount in the finished drug added, so it limits its clinical use, such as Cordyceps, “the herb from the new” contains its “sweet and flat to protect the lungs, benefit the kidney, replenish the essence, stop the blood and resolve phlegm, has labor cough, the treatment of diaphragm are good”, its for However, its price is expensive, often more than 100,000 yuan a kilogram, so it is impossible to use it in large quantities, and it is not suitable for decoction in soup. This can bring out its curative effect without wasting resources and make it 100% available. Similar drugs include ginseng, American ginseng, deer antler, maple, pearl powder, saffron, purple river carpenter, and sebum tadpoles. Secondly, some cheap but inconvenient drugs can be used rationally. There are also some drugs that are not expensive or even very cheap, but not convenient for use in hospitals and homes, so their application is also limited, such as syrup and wine. In the Clinical Guide to Medical Cases, Volume II – Cough, it is stated that “to regulate Yang Qi, Jianzhong should be pushed, and to take care of Yin liquid, Fuyu pulse should be invested”, which shows that Xiao Jianzhong Tang and Broiled Licorice Tang are considered by Ye Tiansh as representative formulas for tonifying Yin and Yang. However, the ruling herb of Xiao Jian Zhong Tang is syrup, and the roasted licorice soup requires seven taels of clear wine to help the medicinal power, both of which are not expensive, but we rarely use them nowadays because they are not available and inconvenient. If made into a poultice, you can blend the two into the filtered, concentrated juice and take it together. There are many similar medicines, such as rock sugar, honey, black sesame, walnuts and so on. Third, simplify the decoction of drugs. If it is made into a cream formula, all these drugs can be put into one pot and processed by professionals, it becomes extremely convenient for patients to take and beneficial to the absorption of drugs. All in all, poultices have many flavors and are processed with great care, so they can maximize the effect of many Chinese herbs, which are difficult to replace by other dosage forms, and are an important and indispensable part of the TCM treatment system.