Traditional Chinese Medicine: the processing method of traditional Chinese medicine-fire processing

A method of treating drugs by heating with fire. This method is the most widely used processing method, and the commonly used fire processing methods are frying, roasting, roasting, stewing and roasting. Its main contents are as follows:

There are different methods of frying, such as frying yellow, frying coke and frying charcoal. In addition to frying, solid adjuvants such as soil, bran and rice can be added to reduce the irritation of drugs and enhance the curative effect, such as Atractylodes rhizome fried with soil, Fructus Aurantii fried with bran and Mylabris fried with rice. The method of frying with sand, talcum powder and clam powder is customarily called scalding. When heated evenly, the medicine is crisp, and the effective components are easy to be decocted or taken, such as fried pangolin with sand and fried donkey-hide gelatin with clam powder.

Roasting is a processing method in which medicinal materials and liquid auxiliary materials are mixed and fried, so that the auxiliary materials gradually penetrate into the inspection and are collected into the medicinal materials by big websites. Roasting can change the medicinal properties, enhance the curative effect or reduce the side effects.

Calcined medicinal materials are directly or indirectly calcined with strong fire, which makes the texture crisp and easy to crush, and gives full play to the curative effect. Calcination methods are different from open calcination [direct calcination] and closed calcination or stewing calcination [indirect calcination].

The method of wrapping medicinal materials with wet flour and paper, heating with hot ash, or heating with toilet paper and decoction pieces separately is called stewing.

The method of heating and drying medicinal materials with small fire is called roasting.