The soaking time of Chinese medicine needs to be decided according to the type and nature of the medicine, too long, too short will affect the therapeutic effect of the medicine, both may not be good.
Chinese medicine before boiling generally need to be cleaned and soaked, the general soaking time is about 30 minutes, some drugs may even need to be soaked for more than 1 hour, and then boiled, if the soaking time is too long, especially in the high temperature season, it is easy to deteriorate, breeding bacteria. If the soaking time is too short, it is not conducive to the decoction of the active ingredients.
The specific soaking time of Chinese medicine also needs to be decided according to the type of medicine and its own nature. Such as oysters, magnets and other mineral and animal bone drugs, soaking time is longer, usually 1 to 2 hours; flowers, herbs and foliage drugs, need to be soaked for a shorter period of time, usually about 30 minutes.
Chinese medicine soaking needs to be carried out under the guidance of a Chinese medicine practitioner to avoid the therapeutic effect of the medicine being affected by too long or too short a soaking time.