Practice of decocting soup with traditional Chinese medicine

For some special drugs, when doctors prescribe, the words "decoct first, then lower, package decoct, dissolve, separate decoctions, and take orally" should be marked in the upper right corner of the drugs, and special attention should be paid when decocting the drugs.

1. Stir-fry first: shells, mineral medicines, such as tortoise plastron, turtle shell, ochre, concha Haliotidis, keel, oyster, magnet, gypsum, etc. Can be broken and decocted for 20-30 minutes, and then other medicines are added to decoct together.

Drugs with toxic side effects such as aconite and aconite must be decocted for 45-60 minutes to reduce toxicity and ensure drug safety.

2. Back sole: mint, Artemisia annua, Amomum villosum, cardamom and other fragrant smells, and the effective ingredients are volatile after long-term frying. Uncaria rhynchophylla, rhubarb, senna, etc. Decocting for a long time will destroy the active ingredients, so the two drugs should be decocted 3-6 minutes before the general drugs are finished.

3. Bao Jian: used for drugs with strong viscosity, powder and fluff, such as halloysitum rubrum, plantain seed, Lygodium japonicum, indigo naturalis, talc, Pollen Typhae, Inula, etc. , should be wrapped in small gauze first, and then decocted with other drugs to avoid cough caused by turbid or irritating liquid medicine.

4. Melting: Colla Corii Asini, Colla Plastri Testudinis, Colla Cervi, etc. Usually heated with water or yellow wine and melted before eating.

5, another decoction: for ginseng, American ginseng, velvet antler, antelope horn and other precious drugs, often decocted alone, taken alone or mixed with medicine juice.

6. Oral administration: In order to avoid waste, antelope horn powder, Notoginseng Radix, Calculus Bovis powder, Pearl powder, Glauber's salt and other expensive and low-dosage drugs or powder drugs are generally not decocted, but can be taken with other decoctions or boiled water.