What are the different types of Chinese medicine dosage forms? How to choose the right form of Chinese medicine for yourself?

Sickness is no stranger to us, usually some small headaches and colds are in fact very common, we will find every day in the hospital there are always a lot of people to see a doctor, of course, many people if the condition is not very serious, will not choose to go to the hospital, but to buy drugs to eat, and will buy traditional Chinese medicine, because of the side effects of the traditional Chinese medicine is small, and that the traditional Chinese medicine dosage form which are a few kinds of? How to choose the right type of Chinese medicine for yourself?

1, Chinese medicine dosage form

(1) soup: is the most primitive, ancient dosage form. One of the most prominent features of the soup is that it can be used in large quantities and in a comprehensive manner. You can use a variety of Chinese medicines to match, a big bowl of Chinese medicine to decoct a big bowl of soup, a time to drink. As the saying goes, medicine is better than food, and food is better than water. People can't eat when they have a loss of appetite and indigestion, and they can only drink soup, just because soup is the easiest to digest and absorb. If these medicines are ground into powder and eaten, the medicine is bitter, first of all, can eat is a problem. Furthermore, even if it is eaten, whether it can be digested is still a problem. If the disease is complex, and want to see the effect quickly, can only use the soup.

(2) bulk: is evaporated from the water in the soup and dried, after melting the texture is also more delicate, more easily absorbed, storage and transportation is more convenient.

(3) oral liquid: is filtered the solid particles in the medicinal broth, and add honey, edible flavors, etc., focus on improving the taste, suitable for children and people who can not eat bitter medicine. Because nowadays there are many people who get diabetes, there are also some oral liquids that are sugar-free. Oral liquids and dispersions are fixed formulas that are not easy to mix and match flexibly, and are mainly used to treat simpler conditions. Oral liquids are also characterized by easy absorption, but in smaller doses and less effective than tonics, but are more costly and expensive because of the added processing procedures.

(4) honey pills: are made by grinding, soaking, steaming and then extracting the concentrated juice and small particles from the Chinese herbs and adding honey. Honey pills are more refined than the powder you grind yourself, but they are coarser than the liquid and sometimes hard to eat.

(5) Injections: are not absorbed through the digestive tract and are used for people who have lost their appetite, have very poor digestion, and are unable to eat in a comatose state.

2, their own situation to choose

(1) soup: fast absorption, good effect, can be added or subtracted

The soup is the most widely used clinical form. Soup has a fast absorption, rapid effect, flexible, targeted and so on. Such as ephedra soup treatment of external wind-cold, Cheng Qi Tang diarrhea real heat, the only Senate soup to supplement the deficiency of solid off, and so on.

The tablets will be placed in water and boiled for a certain period of time, and then take the juice to take, it becomes a soup. It can be made from a single flavor of Chinese medicine, but also from several, dozens or even dozens of flavors of Chinese medicine with the combination of the combination of the compound decoction and become.

The soup is usually taken once a day, twice a day in the morning and evening. After taking the medicine, you should drink less tea and eat less radish, because tea and radish will reduce the effect of tonic drugs, especially ginseng drugs.

(2) Proprietary Chinese medicines: low toxicity, accurate dosage, easy to carry

Chinese medicinal herbs after concocting, in addition to the physician's prescription requirements for the preparation of soup, but also the tablets can be processed into pills, bulk, paste, Dan, and a variety of dosage forms.

Pills release the drug action slowly, but the efficacy is long, alleviate toxicity and irritation, attenuate adverse reactions. Commonly, there are water pills, honey pills, paste pills, wax pills and so on. Concentrated pills and drop pills developed in recent years are characterized by fast absorption and high bioavailability.

Spreading agent for the powder, because the surface area is large, easy to disperse absorption, the effect is quite fast, such as blood and pain relief powder, Guilin watermelon cream.

The cream is divided into two kinds of internal and external use. Internal service is often referred to as the cream, there are tonic effect, such as the ten full tonic cream. External use is the cream, more suitable for surgical sores or wind-cold paralysis and pain and other conditions, such as joint analgesic cream, burn ointment, dog skin cream.

The tablets are accurate in dosage, stable in quality, easy to take and carry, and rich in variety. However, because of the need to add adhesive in the compressed tablets, so that the surface area of the drug is greatly reduced, affecting the disintegration and absorption in the stomach, such as prickly five plus tablets, Yin Qiao detoxification tablets, compound grass coral tablets.

Capsules have a clean appearance, which can hide the bad odor of the drug and make it easy to take. The dosage form of water solubility, in the stomach, the drug can be quickly dispersed, released, the effect is also fast, such as fast-acting cold capsule, ten drops of water soft capsule.

Granules are dry granules made from extracts of herbs and suitable excipients or fine powder of herbs, which can be taken with boiled water and are more convenient, such as Neck Fukang granules, Stomach Sue granules, Shuanghuanglian granules.

(3) Selection of dosage forms: the best is the one that suits you

Since people's physique is either weak or solid, their condition is either urgent or slow, their age is either old or young, and their season is either hot or cold, the dosage forms of traditional Chinese medicines to be selected are also different. The choice of dosage form should be considered in a comprehensive manner, and suitability is the overall principle.

If you are suffering from a new, acute or serious illness, you can choose a soup, because the drug is evenly dispersed in the liquid in a molecular or ionic state, which makes it easier to be absorbed. Injections can be used for the rescue of acute and critical illnesses. Injections enter the body through the muscle, intravenous route, fast absorption, rapid action. Chronic diseases and post-disease recuperation is suitable for the use of pills. Commonly used honey pills and water pills in the gastrointestinal tract, slow absorption, gentle action, long-lasting effect, easy to carry and take. Chronic diseases and prolonged diseases can choose to take internal paste, such as pear paste. Rheumatic pain, bruises, skin sores and ulcers can choose the external cream, but also can choose to open the meridians and activate the medicinal wine.

Pediatric patients are suitable for granules and syrup. It can be dissolved in boiling water, absorbed quickly after taking, and some have a sweet flavor.