Nowadays, Chinese medicine is becoming increasingly popular, but when you take a packet of herbs home, how exactly should you decoct and take them properly? Let’s talk about it. First of all, we need to choose a good decoction tool. Nowadays, some friends do not care much about this and use the usual cooking aluminum pot to boil Chinese medicine, which is not right. Remember, you can’t use enamel pots to boil Chinese medicine, because enamel pots will also precipitate chemicals in the process of boiling medicine, so it is best to use casseroles or medicine pots to boil Chinese medicine, usually Chinese medicine stores have sold medicine pots, more than 10 yuan a piece, not expensive, and daily stores will also sell them. The pot will leak when it starts to boil, what should I do? However, some friends will find that the medicine pot will leak water when it starts to boil, why is this? It turns out that a medicine pot fired with clay residue will have some gaps. The traditional practice is to boil some cornmeal in the medicine pot before using it for the first time, and after boiling, the gaps in the pot will be plugged. If you use a casserole to cook medicine, then remember, do not use a high fire at first, otherwise the casserole will appear to crack the pot, but use a low fire first, and then increase the fire a bit appropriately when the whole casserole is hot. Before boiling, soak the drug for half an hour Before boiling, you need to first soak the drug in water for about half an hour, so that the active ingredients boiled more, otherwise to boil, you can check again, many drugs (such as poria) inside or dry it, of course, it is also a waste. The first decoction of drugs, first boil half an hour When boiling medicine, you must first pay attention to see if there is a doctor’s orders first decoction, in Chinese medicine, some drugs such as: raw keel, raw oyster, turtle plate, turtle nail, magnet, raw gypsum and other drugs are difficult to decoct the active ingredients, so it is necessary to first decoction, usually pharmacies will give a single package, you need to boil them in the pot for more than half an hour, and then the other drugs. The special drug long decoction, the mouth of the sapodilla tastes not numb for the degree of Chinese medicine inside the more special drugs, such as sapodilla, this drug has a certain degree of toxicity, the main toxic component is aconitine, this toxic component in the boil to an hour or so, it is destroyed, so you should remember that the sapodilla must first boil for about half an hour, and then put in other drugs, and then boil for half an hour, so boil for a full hour on The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have the right medicine. If the amount of medicine is large, it must be boiled until the seeds are tasted with the mouth and no longer feel numb as well. In addition, there are other drugs such as Zao Xin Tu, which is used for its thick and pure aroma to harmonize the middle and dispel obscenities, so the traditional method of Chinese medicine is to boil the water first, then strain the dregs and use the boiled water to decoct other drugs. Some drugs need to be decocted later, such as patchouli, pelargonium, white kouren, sand, and other aromatic drugs, and their volatile substances are easily dispersed, so they need to be decocted for about four to five minutes when the medicine is about to be boiled. Sometimes, the decoction method should be considered according to the condition, for example, some cold patients have external cold and internal heat, so my experience is to decoct the drugs for clearing internal heat such as scutellaria, forsythia, double flower and gypsum first, and then put the drugs for relieving external cold such as sulforaphane and scallion when the decoction is almost ready, then close the fire immediately and smother for five minutes, so that the efficacy is obviously better than putting the drugs together. The efficacy is obviously better than putting the drugs together to decoct. Some medicines, such as Fritillaria, Slippery Rock, etc., need to be wrapped in cloth and put into the pot because their residue can irritate the digestive tract. In the past, there were some traditional decoction methods, such as using fresh lotus leaves to wrap and decoct in the medicine to clear summer heat and dampness, but nowadays, few people do this. In the past, fresh reed root was used to boil water, and then the water was used to boil the medicine to clear the heat and detoxify the toxin, so that the power of clearing is stronger, but nowadays, the preservation of fresh medicine is a problem, so almost no one boils medicine in this way. The length of time to boil the medicine and the disease is related to the position of boiling medicine, to follow the principle of a large fire to open the pot, small fire decoction, can not always boil with a large fire, otherwise it will quickly boil dry. According to traditional Chinese medicine, the length of time for boiling medicine is related to the disease location. If the disease location is in the lower jiao, then more time is needed to make the medicine taste thick and heavy and sink, while if the disease location is in the upper jiao, less time is needed, especially when the external evil is in the lung meridian and needs to be deconstructed, the boiling time is generally just to open the pot and the “aroma comes out”. This is the time to take the light and clear air of the medicine and get straight to the lung meridian to get rid of the evil. If it is a general Chinese medicine, it is boiled for twenty minutes, filtered out a bowl of juice, then added water, then boiled for fifteen minutes, then filtered out a bowl of juice, then added water, then boiled for fifteen minutes, then filtered out a bowl of juice, then three bowls of juice mixed, then heated, you can drink, so boiled medicine, both boiled for twenty minutes can be boiled out of the ingredients, but also boiled for several minutes can be boiled out of the ingredients, so more comprehensive. The actual time to drink the medicine after the medicine is boiled, drinking the medicine is also very learned, in the clinic, the doctor will encounter many patients consulting Chinese medicine in the end what time to drink, in fact, it depends on the patient’s condition. There are very few patients who are allergic to certain types of drugs, and if we look through medical papers, we will find that there are often reports of allergies, although this is a very rare case, as in the case of western anesthetics, there must be a certain percentage of people who are allergic, this is a characteristic of the drug, but we can’t ignore it, so I suggest that everyone who is drinking medicine, the first pair of drugs, must try to drink, such as originally should drink a bowl If there is no problem, then drink the remaining two-thirds, if there is no problem again, in accordance with the normal measurement to drink, this is what everyone who drinks medicine should pay attention to. I usually make this tip for each patient, especially when there are insects in the medicine, because there are many people who are allergic to foreign proteins, so it is especially important to make special tips. In general, drinking Chinese medicine is precautionary before breakfast and after dinner, but this is only a general principle. According to Chinese medicine, if you are taking a tonic herbal medicine, especially one that enters the kidney meridian, then it is best to take it before meals so that the medicine can go straight to the lower jiao, and if you are taking a medicine for upper jiao diseases, then it is best to take it after meals for better efficacy. But the time to take the medicine should also be adjusted according to the patient’s own experience. For example, some patients feel uncomfortable with their appetite once they take Chinese medicine, so they can take it after meals to reduce the stimulation of the medicine on the stomach and intestines, and it is generally not recommended to take the medicine immediately after meals, but preferably after half an hour. In clinical practice, Chinese medicine practitioners have also concluded some practical methods of taking medication, for example, the best way to take the Yang medicine in the morning or morning, so that the body can take advantage of the morning Yang Qi to make the drug play a greater role; Yin medicine can be taken in the afternoon or evening, because the human body at night with the matter of Yin Qi. The drugs that calm the mind are best taken in the evening before going to bed, so that the effect is better. In addition, there are ways to take drugs according to the body’s meridian energy, such as the Qing Dynasty physician Ye Tiansh said: “kidney medicine, invade the morning to take”, because traditional Chinese medicine believes that the morning is the weakest kidney meridian time, this time to supplement the kidney is half the effort; and to go to the heart fire drugs are best taken at noon, because this time the heart meridian when the order, can make The medication for the spleen can be taken in the evening because the meridian of the spleen and stomach is the weakest at this time, and the effect of the tonic is better. At the same time, Chinese medicine also pay attention to the patient’s situation to adjust the method of taking medicine, such as the patient is taking diarrhea drugs, then we must look at the patient’s diarrhea, if the patient’s stool is not diarrhea, then we should continue to take, if the diarrhea, then we must promptly adjust the dosage, in the classical Chinese medicine “typhoid” is prescribed to take the big Cheng Qi Tang, if the patient has diarrhea, then If the patient has diarrhea, it is necessary to “stop after serving”, that is, do not take it again, otherwise it will damage the body’s vital energy. Some drugs, however, can not be taken twice a day, such as emergency conditions, then need to be served frequently, ancient medical books often record that this time to boil the medicine in a large pot, at any time to serve frequently; and for the treatment of diseases such as cough or throat, the best way to take medicine is to sip frequently, that is, a small mouth to drink, and then in the mouth for a while, and then slowly swallowed. For example, in the “Treatise on Typhoid Fever”, the Gui Zhi Tang, which relieves the muscle and harmonizes the Ying and Wei, Zhang Zhongjing has the patient drink some hot porridge after drinking the medicine, which can help the body to generate stomach energy and dispel the evil. Therefore, it is best to take a light diet after taking herbal medicine, avoiding thick taste and big fish and meat, because these factors will affect the absorption of drugs, while often drinking some millet porridge, yam porridge, etc. can help the body’s stomach qi to recover quickly. In addition, friends are most concerned about whether Chinese medicine and Western medicine can be taken at the same time, in fact, some ingredients in Chinese medicine will produce chemical reactions with Western medicine, such as iron preparations for the treatment of iron deficiency anemia, enzyme preparations for the treatment of indigestion, antipyretic analgesics containing ingredients such as aminopyrine, certain drugs for the treatment of heart disease such as digitalis preparations, can not be taken at the same time with Chinese medicine, because these ingredients are easy to react with The reason is that these ingredients can easily react with the tannin in certain Chinese medicines, affecting their efficacy and even producing harmful substances. Since each Chinese medicine has dozens or even hundreds of chemical ingredients, it is not very clear which western medicines will react with them. It seems that there are still a lot of things to learn about decocting and taking Chinese medicine, so you can always consult your doctor during your visit to learn about the right way to take your medicine.