What is a decoction piece?

Traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces refer to a kind of traditional Chinese medicine which can be processed into a certain shape according to needs and is convenient to use, and can be directly used in Chinese medicine clinic. According to the nature of medicinal materials and medical needs, Chinese medicinal materials are cut into various specifications, such as thin slices, thick slices, inclined slices, filaments, segments, blocks, etc., so that the effective components of the medicine are easy to dissolve and convenient for other processing, storage and adjustment. This Chinese herbal medicine is called "decoction pieces". Chinese herbal pieces are processed according to the theory and processing method of traditional Chinese medicine, which can be directly used in clinical Chinese medicine.

Chinese herbal pieces are the essence of Chinese medicine. After different processing methods, the medicinal properties and efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine will become different. "Wine is ascending, ginger is diverging, salt is kidney-removing, vinegar is liver, rice swill is drying and neutralizing, milk is nourishing yin and nourishing blood, honey is invigorating spleen, bran is making acid, and licorice stains are dew and reducing toxicity." Behind the different changes, it is this ingenious processing that has achieved the purpose of changing the medicinal properties, reducing toxicity and improving the curative effect, making the clinical use of traditional Chinese medicine handy and the curative effect generally not too bad. Therefore, the processing of decoction pieces is the characteristic and advantage of traditional Chinese medicine.

Common decoction pieces are: turtle shell, Pollen Typhae, Scutellaria barbata, Semen Vaccariae, Qingqiao, Bupleurum, Schisandra chinensis, Cao Mao, Cortex Phellodendri, Polyporus, Flos Lonicerae, Xiang Lian, Fructus Amomi, Fructus Amomi, Taraxaci, Semen Benincasae, Asparagus, Fructus Aurantii Immaturus, Cinnamomi, Eupolyphaga Seu Steleophaga, Salvia Miltiorrhiza, Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae Viride, Spica, Galla Chinensis, Arisaema cum bile.