What is the processing of traditional Chinese medicine to find the answer

Processing of traditional Chinese medicine refers to the traditional method and technology of processing Chinese herbal medicines into Chinese herbal pieces under the guidance of the theory of traditional Chinese medicine and according to the requirements of traditional Chinese medicine. In ancient times, it was also called "baking", "repairing things" and "repairing therapy". After processing, the drug can not only improve the curative effect, reduce the side effects of the drug, but also facilitate storage, which is an essential process for clinical use of traditional Chinese medicine.

For thousands of years, China has not only accumulated rich processing methods and technologies, but also formed a set of traditional processing tools. Processing is the concentrated embodiment and core of the pharmaceutical technology of traditional Chinese medicine. "Pieces are used as medicine, and raw and cooked are treated differently" is a distinctive feature and a big advantage of traditional Chinese medicine. The processing technology of Chinese herbal pieces is unique to China, the crystallization of thousands of years of traditional culture in China and the treasure of Chinese culture.

Traditional Chinese medicine processing has a long history, which is said to have originated in Shennong era. In ancient times, people used simple processing methods such as washing and chopping to make drugs clean and convenient to take, which was the earliest processing of traditional Chinese medicine. When human beings discovered fire, they were inspired by processing food with fire, so processing drugs with fire played a very good role in reducing drug toxicity and regulating drug properties. In the Xia era, the emergence of brewing technology opened up a broad road for the future brewing system. Later processing methods, such as salt making, vinegar making and honey roasting, enriched the processing content of traditional Chinese medicine and better adapted to the clinical needs.

The development of traditional Chinese medicine processing can be divided into four periods: the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Song Dynasty (722 BC to AD 1279) is the beginning and formation period of traditional Chinese medicine processing technology; The period of Jin, Yuan and Ming Dynasties (A.D. 1280- 1644) was the formation period of cooking theory. The Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1645 to191year) was a period of expanding the application of processing varieties and technologies. Modern (after 19 12) is a period of revitalization and development of processing.

Processing of traditional Chinese medicine used to be called processing. However, the word "baked" only represents two kinds of fire therapy methods in the whole processing technology of traditional Chinese medicine, and cannot summarize other processing methods of traditional Chinese medicine. In order to keep the original intention of ancient processing and reflect the whole processing technology of traditional Chinese medicine more accurately, it is now collectively called processing. Among them, the word "gun" represents various processing technologies related to fire, and the word "gun" represents various broader processing technologies.

The written records of Chinese medicine processing began in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The treatment of Pinellia ternata recorded in Huangdi Neijing, the first existing medical classic in China, is to process Pinellia ternata. In the Han Dynasty, the processing methods were steaming, frying, roasting, roasting, refining, boiling, boiling with fire, burning, grinding, smashing, pounding, washing wine, soaking wine, steaming wine, boiling bitter wine, soaking in water, washing in soup, peeling, removing cores, feet and wings, and removing hair. At the same time, the theory of cooking began to be established. For example, in the preface of the first medical work "Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing" published in China at that time, it was written: "Medicine ... is toxic and nontoxic, dried in the shade, and done in the month; Raw and cooked, the truth is from Xin Chen, and each has its own method ... "Treatise on Febrile Diseases by Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor in the Eastern Han Dynasty, recorded the processing of 100 kinds of drugs. He also believes that drugs "have fibrous roots to remove stems, skin to remove meat, or skin to remove meat, but also need flowers to remove solids, and must be burned, refined, processed, roasted and refined according to the formula." "Curing it will make it very clean." It can be seen that in the Han dynasty, people had a certain understanding of the purpose and significance of Chinese medicine processing.