What does Bao mean in Chinese medicine?

A common bag in Chinese herbal medicine refers to wrapping medicinal materials in cloth bags, paper bags, lacquer boxes or bamboo tubes for decocting or soaking in water. The advantages of using bags are that they can avoid direct contact with drugs, prevent drugs from being too toxic, and facilitate transportation and access. At the same time, the different packaging materials will also affect the decoction effect of medicinal materials. For example, bamboo tube packaging can soften the medicinal properties and make the medicinal taste sweeter; It is convenient for medicinal materials to percolate in cloth bags and improve the quality of decoction.

Bags in Chinese medicinal materials also have another purpose, that is, to put a variety of medicinal materials together for packaging. The bag with this compound formula can meet the needs of people with different constitutions and symptoms, and play a synergistic role in curative effect. For example, the common Siwutang and Liuwei Dihuang Pills are compound preparations composed of various medicinal materials, which are more convenient and flexible to use and more in line with the concept of individualized diagnosis and treatment of traditional Chinese medicine.

Of course, there are still precautions in the bag of Chinese medicine. First of all, in the process of using bags, we should pay attention to environmental protection and choose degradable materials to avoid environmental pollution. In addition, some people are allergic to medicinal materials or have other diseases or medication history, so they need to use Chinese herbal preparations under the advice of doctors. At the same time, the use of traditional Chinese medicine bags should follow the correct method to ensure that the nutrients of medicinal materials are not lost, and the storage and drinking methods after decoction or soaking in water should also be paid attention to to to ensure the curative effect.