1. What kind of water is used to decoct the medicine? The quality of water also affects the efficacy of Chinese medicine. For example, Li Shizhen divided the water for decoction into five kinds of water, such as rainwater, dew water and snow water, which are natural distilled water with less hardness and more purity than ordinary spring water, river water and well water, and can minimize the effect on the active ingredients of medicine. Although we can not pursue water quality like the ancients, but if conditions allow, you can use distilled water or pure water, cool white water can also be. Tap water can be heated to remove chlorine from it, but you cannot use hot or boiling water to directly decoct the medicine, but only after it has cooled. Many families use mineral water in large buckets, but it is not a good choice for decoction. This is because mineral water contains some minerals and metal ions, such as calcium, which can have an effect on the efficacy of Chinese medicine. 2. What kind of water should I use to serve? Take medicine not with tea, milk, soy milk delivery: because tea contains a lot of tannin, easy and drugs in the protein, alkaloids, metal ions and so on. Mineral water, milk, soy milk contains some minerals, there are some acidic Chinese medicine together with easy to reduce the effectiveness of the medicine. In addition, some drugs cannot be taken with hot water. Taking medication with hot water around 50°C will cause physical or chemical reactions to occur when the medication is exposed to heat, which in turn will affect absorption. Cough syrups such as: acute syrup, dense Chuanbei loquat; Chinese patent medicines to clear heat and detoxify. It is inappropriate to use fruit juice to take pCms: recent studies have found that orange juice interferes with some drugs metabolized by the liver and can hinder their metabolism, thus enhancing toxicity, such as blood-stasis-activating Chinese medicines. Therefore, not only forbidden juice delivery of the above drugs, during the taking of drugs, also try not to drink juice. 3. How much water should I use to take them? The amount of water used to take proprietary Chinese medicine should be appropriate. General oral tablets, usually with 150-200 ml of water can be served. Too much water will dilute the gastric juice and accelerate gastric emptying, which is not conducive to the absorption of drugs. The surface of the capsule will become soft and sticky when it meets water, which will easily attach to the esophageal wall and cause damage or ulcers after taking. So drink more water, at least 300 ml, when delivering capsules. 4, the delivery method of specific proprietary Chinese medicine kidney deficiency class of proprietary Chinese medicine should be delivered with light salt water: treatment of kidney deficiency class of proprietary Chinese medicine such as Liu Wei Di Huang Wan, Golden Lock Solid Essence Pill, Four Gods Pill, Black Xidan, Great Tonic Yin Pill, Zuo Gui Pill, Zuo Magnetic Pill, Tiger Qian Wan, etc., has the effect of nourishing the kidney and tonic deficiency, commonly used in the treatment of waist and knee weakness, night sweats, seminal emission, dizziness and tinnitus and other symptoms. Usually people will take it with warm boiled water. In fact, the best way is to use warm light salt water. This is a combination of Chinese herbs and medicinal herbs. Salt is salty and cold in nature and has the effect of clearing fire, cooling the blood and detoxifying the toxin. Because of its salty taste, it can lead the medicine into the kidney, so it can be used as a medicinal guide to help Liu Wei Di Huang Wan reach the lesion directly and better play the role of kidney tonic. In addition, the cold nature of salt can be used to clear the fire for patients with kidney yin deficiency and deficiency fire. Don’t drink water within 5 minutes after taking syrup-based drugs Cough syrup is a type of over-the-counter medicine often used in daily life, and is loved by cough patients, especially children and the elderly, because of its good taste and ease of use. Some people are used to drinking a lot of water immediately after taking syrup, thinking that this will quickly get rid of the special taste of the medicine and send the liquid into the gastrointestinal tract as soon as possible. In fact, this is not conducive to the effectiveness of cough syrup. The cough syrup’s cough suppressing effect depends on one hand on the gastrointestinal absorption, and on the other hand on the syrup covering the mucosal surface of the pharynx, directly reducing the inflammatory stimulation. If you drink a lot of water immediately after taking the drug, it will firstly reduce the concentration of the drug in the pharynx, and secondly dilute the gastric juice, which will affect the absorption of the drug in the gastrointestinal tract. Therefore, patients are advised not to drink water for at least 5 minutes after drinking the syrup to improve its efficacy. However, if the viscous syrup is too irritating to the throat and even causes discomfort, it is a different story. 5, drink Chinese medicine do not add sugar Chinese medicine soup composition of drugs have “sour, bitter, sweet, pungent and salty” and other five flavors, adding sugar increases the sweet taste of the formula, affecting the effectiveness of the medicine. The addition of white sugar, which is cold, and brown sugar, which is warm, to different preparations of tonics also affects the original medicinal properties and may not be the right formula. In addition, the chemical composition of Chinese medicine is complex, and sugar, especially brown sugar, contains more iron, calcium and other elements, with which the proteins and tannins in Chinese medicine may combine and react, causing denaturation, affecting the efficacy of the medicine and endangering health.