Types of Chinese medicine concoctions

Chinese herbs are mostly raw medicines, many of which need to undergo different methods of concoction treatment in order to play a better therapeutic effect. For example, licorice can be received after honey roasting to tonify the middle and benefit the qi; yam can be bran fried to enhance the function of strengthening the spleen and appetite; ephedra can be changed after honey roasting to be pungent and warm to generate sweat, etc. The physician often uses different kinds of concocted drugs with different conditions when prescribing medication in the clinic. The endocrinology department of Xiyuan Hospital, Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wei Lanxiang common types of Chinese herbs: 1, “honey-burning” type of drugs sizzling ephedra, sizzling cinnamon sticks, sizzling licorice, sizzling hemp, sizzling Baiqian, sizzling orchid, sizzling aristolochia, sizzling loquat leaves, sizzling mulberry leaves, sizzling aster, sizzling hawthorn, sizzling atractylodes, sizzling codonopsis, sizzling astragalus, sizzling angelica, sizzling lily, sizzling winter melon seeds, sizzling antebellum, sizzling perilla seeds Roasted orange red, roasted phellodendron, roasted scape hebecarpa, roasted hibiscus bark, roasted perilla stalk, roasted poppy husk, roasted baiwei, roasted spirulina, roasted mulberry bark. 2. “Stir-fried” medicines Burdock seeds, mulberry branches, neem seeds, scape hebecarpa, white tribulus terrestris, tsubaki root bark, grain buds, lycopodium, cuttlebone, mulberry cuttlebone, everlasting mountain, wheat sprouts, perilla seeds, celandine seeds, vinca seeds, sour date seeds, mulberry leaves, five lingzhi, lutong, ground beetle, white mustard seeds, guahua bark, guahua seeds Sambucus nigra, hawthorn, hedgehog bark, gardenia, coix seeds, coix seeds, wolfsbane, carthamus seeds, herbaceous nuts 3, “bran fried” drugs, atractylodes, atractylodes, hedgehog, hedgehog shells, stiletto 4, “vinegar fried” drugs, bupleurum, aromatic herb, green bark, trigonella, curcuma, coriander, hallucinogen, frankincense, myrrh, wormwood, wormwood, Gansui 5, “fried charcoal” category of drugs Thornbush, elm, cypress leaf, thistle, artichoke, ginger, cyperus, pu huang, blood, hawthorn, blackberry, Sophora japonica, lotus root, palm tree 6, “wine fried” category of drugs Wine Huanglian, wine Scutellaria, wine Angelica, wine Angelica body, wine Peony, wine Angelica tail, wine Red peony, wine Yanhuosuo, wine Gardenia, wine 7, “fried in salt water” category of drugs Huang Bai Zhi Mu Cumin Fennel Orange Kernel Roasted Ze Xie Di Puzzle Sha Yuan Zi Huai Niu Knee Eucommiae Bonesetter Bupleurum Bacopa Monnieri Lychee Kernel Psyllium 8, “fried in sand” category of drugs Leopard Bone Dog Bone Dog Backbone Pierced Mountain Armor Bone Crushed Tonic Ox Cheek Navel Cheek Chicken Inner Gold Leech Deer tendon, turtle plate, turtle nail, dry toad, monkey bone, strychnine 9, “clam powder fried” category of drugs, gum beads, thread fish gum, yellow lip gum 10, “fire forging” category of drugs, Yang Qi stone, Valengzi, green pores, gold pores, green alum, natural copper, fish brain stone, human middle white