Traditional pharmaceutical principles have

Traditional pharmaceutical principles are opposite for the system, phase capital for the system, fear for the system, and evil for the system.

1, the opposite for the system: change the nature of the medicine

It refers to the use of medicinal properties of the opposing auxiliary materials (including drugs) to constrain the bias of traditional Chinese medicine or change the nature of the medicine. Such as the use of hot and pungent wine to concoct bitter cold sinking rhubarb, so that the medicinal properties of the turn down to rise. Using hot and pungent Cornus Officinalis to concoct Rhizoma Coptidis to kill its cold nature. Concocting Yi Zhi Ren with salty, cold and moist brine can moderate its warm and dry nature.

Changing the appearance of the drug form and separate medicinal parts. The "form" refers to the shape and part. Chinese medicine because of the different forms, large size, not conducive to the formulation and decoction, so, before the formulation are processed into tablets, medical . The school education network collects and organizes the decoction in order to achieve the requirements of "medicinal power **** out".

2, phase capital for the system: increase the effectiveness of the medicine

It refers to the use of medicinal properties similar to the auxiliary materials or some kind of concoction to enhance the effectiveness of the medicine. The capital, there is the meaning of funding. For example, using salty salt water to concoct bitter cold motherwort, cypress, can enhance the effect of nourishing Yin and lowering the fire. Wine-roasted Xianmao and Yangqi Shi can enhance the effect of warming the kidney and boosting the yang. Honey-roasted licorice can enhance the effect of tonifying the middle and benefiting the qi.

Through concocting, the five flavors of traditional Chinese medicine can be adjusted or corrected. According to the requirements of clinical use of medicines, with different methods of concocting, especially with auxiliary concoctions, can change the inherent flavor of Chinese medicine, so that a certain flavor can be strengthened or weakened, to achieve the purpose of the "control of its too much, to support its insufficiency".

3, fear (or kill) for the system: lower toxicity

is the use of some kind of auxiliary materials in order to constrain the toxicity of a drug, the side effects of concocting the drug. Such as ginger can kill half-summer, southern star poison (i.e., half-summer, southern star fear ginger), so use ginger to concoct half-summer, southern star.

4, phase evil for the system: suppression of potent

is the Chinese medicine compound "phase evil" content in the extended application of the concoction. The "phase evil" refers to the combination of two drugs, a drug can make the other drug role is reduced or loss of efficacy. Generally belongs to the pairing taboo.

But according to this reason, the concoction can be utilized in some kind of auxiliary materials or some kind of method to weaken the potency of the drug, such as fried hedge hedgehog can slow down the role of its broken gas. After taking the drugs with adverse reactions, "phase evil for the system" and "phase fear for the system" is similar in significance.