What are the appliances for decocting Chinese medicine?

Traditional home decoction appliances are mostly used in casseroles or earthenware pots, especially casseroles are good, this kind of appliances are even heat conduction, chemical properties stable. Good insulation, water evaporation is small, is conducive to the active ingredients precipitation, and can avoid precipitation of the active ingredients of traditional Chinese medicine and utensils chemical reaction and reduce the efficacy of the medicine is the first choice of decoction of drugs.

Secondly, ceramics, white enamelware, glassware, stainless steelware, etc. can also be used. However, these utensils are chemically unstable and can have chemical reactions with many ingredients contained in Chinese medicine during decoction, affecting the efficacy of Chinese medicine. It is recommended not to use, if you have to use, in the process of decoction, generally need to stir, so that the drug is heated evenly, to facilitate the dissolution of the active ingredients, and can prevent viscous ingredients sticking to the bottom of the pot and paste pot.

Reasons to wash the pot before decoction

Whether in the hospital or at home, the decoction of traditional Chinese medicine generally use a fixed container, because the decoction of the drug is often changed, so each time the decoction should be cleaned after decoction, and then re-washed each time before decoction. Because the inner wall of the container is often a layer of dry paste, if you do not Xian to continue to decoct another dose of medicine, the paste dissolved in the drug "string of flavors", "string of gas", and so on, and sometimes offset the effectiveness of the drug.