First-time Chinese medicine practitioners are entangled in how to decoct their medicines to ensure efficacy. There are many introductions about the decoction method of Chinese medicine on the Internet, and this article introduces the decoction method of Chinese medicine for the medication characteristics of hypertensive patients. My patients, who want to decoct their own herbal medicines, can read and refer to: 1. Distinguish the nature of the main drugs in the formula: when the main drugs are tonic, such as prescriptions with Eucommia, Chuanjian, Cuscuta, Shayuanzi, Fructus Lycii, Ligustrum, Cornus, Yam, Dihuang, etc. It is advisable to soak for about 1 hour and the decoction time for each time is more than 45 minutes. If it is mainly for diarrhea, such as hooked vine, Xia Gu Cao, grass cassia, Yin Chen, raw malt, Artemisia, Di Ding Cao, and Di Long, it is appropriate to soak for about 1 hour and the decoction time should be about 30 minutes. 2.First decoction and second decoction: first decoction and second decoction are for the first decoction. For the treatment of hypertension, hooked vine, sand, peppermint are suitable for the second decoction, and the method of the second decoction is to add the second decoction 10-15 minutes before the first decoction; for stone cassia, raw gypsum, raw keel, raw oyster, mother-of-pearl and magnet are suitable for the first decoction, and the method of the first decoction is to put the first decoction in each dose together and decoct for about 20 minutes first. The other drugs should be added after soaking and decocted together. 3. Decoction: The formula includes Fructus spinosus, Phellodendron, Sericeae, Gastrodiae, Boswelliae, etc., which need to be decocted. 4. Melting: mainly gums such as gum and gum need to be melted, the method of melting is to break up the drugs to be melted first, put them in water or yellow wine according to medical advice, and boil them in water. It is also possible, but not necessary, to melt the medicine with soup. About taking: 1, regular taking: is 1 dose per day, decoction two times after taking the juice, divided into morning and evening, ordinary people before and after meals can be. 2.Frequent serving: the spleen and stomach is weak, or stronger medicine need to decide the dosage according to the curative reaction, using frequent serving, generally 50-100 ml each time, half an hour to an hour to observe the reaction after taking the medicine, if there is no increase in new discomfort, take the second, third, dosage is also generally 1 dose per day. 3, cold patients with fever, can be taken frequently according to medical advice, in order to maintain the continuity of drug action, so as to improve the efficacy.