A brief description of the decoction method and precautions for Chinese medicine

Chinese decoction method: take a payment of medicine first soak 30 minutes to 1 hour, if there is a first decoction of drugs can be boiled on high heat and simmered for 15-20 minutes on low heat, each payment of medicine boiled twice in a row, each time boiled out of a small bowl, two times the mixture of filtered juice and then divided into two bowls, a bowl half an hour after dinner tonight, a bowl half an hour after breakfast the next day. (Generally morning and evening are taken after meals, some of them should be taken before breakfast, after dinner, please follow the doctor’s advice, if not, take half an hour after meals) Notes: 1, soak the medicine water not over the medicine two fingers is appropriate, boil the medicine with the water, do not wash the medicine, depending on the amount of water to control the time of the fire; 2, nearly or have been boiled charred medicine can not be taken; 3, “first decoction” of medicine is generally boiled for 20-30 minutes, and then other drugs (general system of sapodilla, which is our hospital’s light sapodilla to boil water first, and sometimes with the same decoction of licorice ginger dates boil water first); 4, “after the next” medicine is generally boiled for 5-10 minutes before the first filtration of each drug, the second time all together in the decoction; 5. For “decoction” drugs, you should wrap them in gauze because of powder or volatility; 6. For “melting” drugs such as antler gum and gum, put a small amount of water in a single bowl, microwave or steam them, and then mix them with soup; 7. 7. “Defoam” herbal medicines such as ephedra, generally need to skim off the upper foam after boiling. (3-6 in the special boiling method of medicine according to the number of payments divided into good parts, generally one per payment of drugs can be, “after the next” drugs because each payment of drugs generally decocted twice, but also each payment of drugs into two parts).