Chinese medicine concoctions knowledge point counseling: roast method - honey roast method

The method of mixing and stirring the cleaned or cut drugs with a fixed amount of refined honey*** is known as honey-roasted method. The Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Honey, its medicinal properties are five: clearing heat, tonic, detoxification, moistening dryness, pain relief. Raw is cool, so it can clear heat; cooked is warm, so it can tonify; sweet and calm, so it can detoxify. Soft and moistening, so it can moisten dryness; slow can go anxious, so it can stop the pain of the heart and abdominal muscle sores and ulcers; and can be to the center, so it can be harmonized with all the medicines and licorice with the same function."

Selection and dosage of adjuvants

The liquid adjuvant of honey baking is heated and refined honey, which is usually called refined honey or cooked honey. Raw honey is cool in nature and can clear heat and smooth the intestines, used for intestinal constipation, while refined honey is warm in nature and has the function of tonifying the middle, moistening dryness, relieving pain, detoxifying and correcting taste. Refined honey can be used to concoct medicines to moisten the lungs, relieve coughs and tonify the middle Jiaoqi. The dosage of refined honey depends on the nature of the drug. The general texture of loose, fibrous drugs with honey should be large, the usual dosage of every 100 kilograms of drugs, with 25 kilograms of refined honey. Solid texture, viscous, oil heavier drugs with honey should be small, such as per 100 kilograms of drugs, the Department of the piece of honey with 12.5 kilograms of honey, lily with honey 5 kilograms, rarotonga, cinnamon sticks with honey 15 kilograms, ephedra, the leaves of the recorder, golden cherry with honey 20 kilograms.

Methods of operation

1. First mix the honey after frying first take a certain amount of refined honey, add the right amount of boiling water to dilute, mix with the drug, smothered, so that honey gradually penetrate into the internal tissue of the drug, placed in a pot, stir-fried with a gentle fire until the color deepens, the basic non-stick hand, take out of the spreading to dry, after the cool airtight storage. General drugs are concocted with this method.

2. The first fried medicine after adding honey first drug in the pot, frying to deepen the color with the fire, add a certain amount of refined honey, stir-frying quickly, so that the honey and the drug mix well, fried to non-stick hands, removed to dry, cooled and then stored in a sealed. This method is suitable for dense texture, honey is not easy to be absorbed drugs. First fried medicine so that it loses some of the water, the texture becomes slightly crispy, the honey is easier to be absorbed. Such as lily, acacia horn.

Precautions

1. When refining honey, the fire should not be too large, so as not to overflow the pot or caramelization.

2. Refining honey can not be too old, the water content of 10% to 13% is appropriate. Otherwise, the viscosity is too strong, not suitable for mixing with drugs.

3. Refining honey is too thick, you can add the right amount of boiling water to dilute, about 1/3 to 1/2 of the amount of honey, honey can be mixed with the drug, and there is no residual honey as appropriate. Add water can make the honey viscosity is reduced, easy to mix with the drug, easy to absorb. Less water is not uniform Run, more water is not easy to fry dry, easy to mold and deterioration.

4. Drugs mixed with honey should be smothered after 4 to 5 hours, so that the honey gradually penetrate into the internal tablets.

5. frying hot, the fire should be small, because the time to smother the wet, so that the texture of the herb becomes soft, frying fire, easy to lead to the outside of the scorched inside soft. Frying time can be a little longer, try to remove the water, to avoid moldy drugs.

6. Honey-roasted drugs must be cooled and stored in a sealed container to avoid moisture viscosity or fermentation and deterioration.

Honey-roasted purpose

1. Change the nature of the medicine, enhance the efficacy. Such as raw licorice, taste sweet and cool, long for the fire detoxification, phlegm cough, honey after sweet and warm, tonifying the spleen and stomach, beneficial to the pulse, relieve the role of pain enhancement. Cherryberry raw sour, astringent, astringent stopping power, more for spermatorrhea and urination, honey-boiled sweet astringent, can replenish the astringent intestines, used for spleen deficiency diarrhea, dysentery, but also to avoid the side effects of abdominal pain.

2. Enhance the effect of moistening the lungs and relieving cough. Such as commonly used phlegm cough medicine aster, digitalis leaf, mulberry white bark, winter flowers, lily of the valley, lily, etc., honey can enhance the effect of moistening the lungs and relieving cough.

3. Correction of taste and elimination of side effects. Aristolochia raw taste bitter bad, easy to cause nausea and vomiting, honey can moderate the bitter cold nature, taste correction and vomiting; Parthenium, white before honey can moderate the irritation of the stomach.

4. Ease the medicinal properties. Such as ephedra, raw sweating effect is fierce, honey can moderate its sweating effect, and can enhance the efficacy of cough and asthma.

Concocting research

Traditional honey-roasted method of frying to "deepen the color, do not stick to the hand" as the quality standard, it is difficult to grasp the actual operation of the same, affecting the quality of the finished product. Due to the far-infrared drying oven, electric drying oven and other equipment, can set the temperature, the quality of artillery products is easy to control, so the baking method instead of the traditional frying and roasting method of the process of more research. Such as astragalus research results show that the honey baked astragalus (70 ℃ or 80 ℃ baking 2 hours), its pharmacological effects, chemical composition and honey baked astragalus similar, no significant difference.