The basic process of Chinese medicine concoction is

Concoction is roughly divided into three steps according to the process: purification, cutting, and blasting.

Purification. There are more than a dozen ways to purify the system, of which the three most common: selection. The non-medicinal part of the herb is picked out and the medicinal part is retained; or the herbs are categorized according to size and thickness for the next process of production and processing. Wind Selection. According to the different weights of drugs and impurities, wind power is utilized to remove the impurities in the drugs. Water washing. Use water to wash away the soil and impurities attached to the medicinal herbs, water washing should pay attention to the time, can not let the medicinal herbs in the water soaked for too long, in addition to the need to cut, the drug should be dried in a timely manner.

Cutting. Cutting refers to the use of manual or mechanical methods, the clean drug cut into slices, segments, blocks and other specifications of the preparation of tablets.

Concoction. The shelling is the clean or cut herbs, according to the clinical needs of traditional Chinese medicine for further processing, in order to improve the efficacy of the medicine or more conducive to take, is the most important step in the shelling. The main links include: frying. Put the drug in the frying pan, continuous addition and continuous stir-frying. According to the nature of the drug to determine the stir-frying method and add what kind of auxiliary materials with the stir-fry. Frying methods include frying yellow, frying charcoal, frying charcoal and adding auxiliary materials to fry. Scorching. The drug is mixed with liquid auxiliaries and then heated and fried, honey roast, wine roast and vinegar roast is most commonly used.

Chinese medicine concoction is a traditional pharmaceutical technology in China since ancient times, also known as gun moxibustion, repair things or repair treatment. With the development of traditional Chinese medicine, more and more people use traditional Chinese medicine to cure diseases, but the vast majority of plants, animals, minerals and other raw materials in nature need to be processed and concocted before they can be used in medicine, and improper concoctions may also make the drug effect the opposite or even bring toxicity. Therefore, Chinese medicine concoction is very important!