What is the Song of Six Chen

Six Chen Ge is a song about the six Chen of traditional Chinese medicine. There are six Chen in traditional Chinese medicine, pointing out that six kinds of traditional Chinese medicine need to be stored in a certain way, so that the medicine will be changed from new medicine to old medicine, so that its flavor and efficacy will be changed to further meet the needs of clinical treatment.

Jin Li Dongyuan in the "pearl capsule finger palms addendum to the medicinal fugue" contains "six Chen song": "Citrus aurantium chenpi half-sia Qi, ephedra and Wu Wu Yu, six of the medicine should be Chen for a long time, into the drug Fangqiang know that the effect of Qi."

Extended information:

The Chinese medicine six Chen refers to the Chen Pi, half-sia, Citrus aurantium dulcis, ephedra, wolfsbane and Wu Wu Ju Ju, six kinds of Chen to put the use of the effect of the better Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine has "six Chen" said, pointed out that the six kinds of Chinese medicine need to be put through a certain method of storage, so that the drug by the new drug into the old drug, so that its flavor, efficacy changes, and thus further in line with the needs of clinical treatment.

This statement was gradually formed in medical practice. First, Tao Hongjing proposed Chen Pi, half-summer should be used for a long time, and then "Tang Materia Medica" added four flavors. The "class evidence of the Materia Medica" summarized, and formally put forward the "six Chen" said.

With the six Chen song is different from Hovenia dulcis and Hovenia ciliata there is a difference. In fact, hedgehog and hedgehog are one thing, only the former for immature fruit, the latter for mature fruit only. "Six Chen", from ancient times to the present, has been used, many doctors only know that the above six kinds of Chinese medicine should be used for a long time.