You should use a crock or ceramic pot instead of an iron pot when decocting medicine. Why?

With the popularization and progress of Chinese medicine, more and more people no longer choose to drink western medicine to treat diseases, but start frying Chinese medicine in casserole. Inexperienced people may use the wrong decocting materials and unconsciously fry traditional Chinese medicine in an iron pan. Next, Bian Xiao shows you why you can't use an iron pot, but only an casserole.

First of all, we must know that most Chinese medicines are medicinal materials, and they are slowly decocted with small fire. Hold on for a few hours. If it is an iron pot, we know that metal ions are more active, so it is easy to react with drugs to produce harmful substances, which is easy to affect people's health. However, the chemical properties of casserole and casserole are stable, and it is not easy to react with drugs in the process of decocting. The casserole has good thermal conductivity and uniform thermal conductivity. The decocted medicine has better effect. Can better cure the patient's condition.

The pot itself is metal. It's easy to decoct medicine in an iron pan. Have a chemical reaction with drugs. It will have adverse consequences for drugs. If the influence is small, it is easy to cause the loss of drugs or curative effects. But if the impact is large, it will easily endanger human health. When decocting medicine in an iron pan. It is also easy to react with Chinese medicine. It may even cause the loss of nutrients and affect the therapeutic effect of drugs.

Let's take a look at the correct method of decocting Chinese medicine: soak Chinese medicine first and then fry it. The soaking time is different according to the different materials of traditional Chinese medicine. Control it in twenty or thirty minutes. Secondly, you can't choose overnight water for decocting Chinese medicine. You can't fry repeatedly with water, just choose cold boiled water or unpolluted tap water. As long as the amount of water does not exceed Chinese medicine. Avoid too little water, lest it affect the efficacy. To boil Chinese medicine, you must first boil it with fire. Then simmer slowly with low fire to reduce water evaporation. Of course, you should know that boiling can't be done once, and it usually takes about two or three times. Remember to choose casserole instead of iron pot. Finally, I hope everyone is healthy and does not need to drink Chinese medicine. If you really need to drink Chinese medicine, don't choose the wrong materials. I wish the people who see this news good health!