How to fry Chinese medicine?

First of all, utensils, generally it is best to use casserole. If not, some Chinese medicine hospital shops now have pots for boiling Chinese medicine. The most basic thing is to use aluminum pot, but you must not use an iron pot (iron and many Chinese medicines will react chemically to affect the curative effect).

Generally, it is best to soak Chinese herbs in water for 2-3 hours, then decoct them in medium heat, and then turn off the heat after the medicine is boiled, and continue to decoct for half an hour to an hour.

If there is any medicine indicated to be decocted first, it should be soaked separately. First, put it in a separate pot and decoct it continuously over medium heat for more than half an hour. Generally speaking, the longer the better, but not more than two hours. Then add other traditional Chinese medicines and decoct them according to the above method.

If it is necessary to indicate the following ingredients, it is generally said that these ingredients should be added after other ingredients have been decocted, or the medicine should be boiled immediately after the fire is turned up, or it can be decocted together for 1 to 15 minutes after the fire is put in.

generally speaking, it is not easy to decoct sweating drugs such as colds for too long, and generally ***2 minutes is enough.

If it is a tonic Chinese medicine, the soaking and decocting time of Chinese medicine can be appropriately prolonged. Do not soak for more than one night, and do not decoct for more than 2 hours.