The Chinese Pharmacopoeia does not explicitly state that dai ochre needs to be packaged and decocted, however, the drug is a mineral and needs to be decocted first to treat vertigo and tinnitus, vomiting, and yelping (hiccups).
Ochre is a traditional Chinese medicine, an oxide mineral corundum group hematite, mainly containing iron trioxide (Fe₂O₃).
Ochre is bitter in taste, cold in nature and belongs to the liver, heart, lung and stomach meridians. It has the effects of calming the liver and submerging yang (suppressing too much rising yang qi in the liver), re-centering and subduing rebelliousness, cooling and stopping bleeding, and can be used for dizziness and ringing in the ears, vomiting, ergotism, eructation (hiccups), wheezing, vomiting of blood, epistaxis, and bleeding under disintegration and leakage.
Its adverse effects are not clear, and pregnant women should be cautious in using it. Ochre is a mineral herb and needs to be decocted first, but not packaged.
If you need to take this medicine, please do so under the guidance of professional medical practitioners for identification of symptoms.