What is Nine Steaming and Nine Sunning

Nine Steaming and Nine Sunning is a traditional method of preparing Chinese herbal medicines, which refers to the use of steaming and sunning methods to repeatedly prepare Chinese herbal medicines.

A traditional method of preparing Chinese herbal medicines refers to the method of repeatedly preparing Chinese herbal medicines by steaming and sunning, the specific details of which vary according to the variety of herbs, the main purpose of which is to rectify the medicinal properties of herbs or to increase the composition of medicines and to reduce the toxicity of components. Steam usually refers to the water with steam steaming herbs, and the ancients on the burning of the material, containers of herbs, steam herbs of water and steam herbs of the seasonal hour are required.

The containers were mostly made of pottery, and the water, the season and the hour depended on the nature of the medicine and the use of the medicine (for what disease), so it is impossible to list them all. In the steaming of the medicine is generally boiled water and then turned to a small fire and then steamed for 6-12 hours, "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: all the repair things to the water panned to remove the floaters, sun-dried, mixed with wine steaming, from Si to Ohio, out of the stalls sun-dried.

Nine steam nine sun method

That is, from 10 am 10 pm, to steam through to the extent that, and then take out the herbs stall sun. Not in the fog or rain or snow just after the sunshine herbs, early morning frost dew is not scattered is also not suitable. The herbs must be sun-dried, if a day can not be sun-dried through the next day can be sun-dried again, until completely dry. The so-called nine, in fact, is the number of the ancients said big and more, does not necessarily mean that the exact nine times, the general number of times the steam sun to the color and shape of the herbs to judge.

Additionally, some special medicines need to be steeped in wine and other herbs and then steamed, or other auxiliary medicines are added to the water in which the medicine is steamed. Winter, from the tree has been drying the acacia horn after picking, water washing, sun drying, remove impurities and dust, placed on a cage drawer, like steaming steamed buns with fire heat steam. After steaming, sun-drying, so that nine consecutive hot steaming (the so-called nine steaming nine sun).