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Types of Traditional Chinese Medicine Dosage Forms

Traditional dosage forms include soups, pills (honey pills, water pills, paste pills, wax pills, concentrated pills), dispersions, creams (ointments, ointments, poultices), elixirs, liquors, syrups, soaks, ingots, dews, gels, teas, nails, rods, suppositories, currants, pastes, pastes, cakes, washes and applications, oils, threads (medicinal threads), strips (medicinal twists), irons, burns, cigarettes and medicinal scents, and so on. Innovative preparations are tablets, punch, pouch, oral liquid, capsules, pill drops, combinations, tinctures, aerosols, enemas, film (film agent), ophthalmic preparations (eyewash, eye drops, ophthalmic ointment), nasal preparations (nasal drops, nasal spray), sponges (sterilized haemostatic), needles and so on, *** more than 40 kinds of, among which soups, pills, dispersions, pastes, dan agents, wine, punch, Oral liquid, capsules, tablets, injections, etc. are most commonly used.

There are many varieties of Chinese herbal medicines, the nature of the differences, drug interactions are complex, and the dosage forms are also different, according to the theory of the combination of Chinese medicine formulations, according to the characteristics of the drug to choose the appropriate dosage form, using a reasonable process, the preparation of excellent preparations. Nowadays, some dosage forms themselves and the production process still have certain problems, and it is necessary to inherit the traditional dosage forms on the basis of experience, absorb the advantages of the advanced dosage forms and constantly improve, and develop new high-quality and efficient dosage forms.