The advantages of decoction are

The advantages of decoction are quick absorption and quick efficacy.

Advantages:

The prescription is flexible, which meets the clinical needs of syndrome differentiation and treatment of traditional Chinese medicine and can give full play to the comprehensive curative effect of compound prescription; Taking water as solvent, the preparation method is simple, and the absorption and effect are quick.

Disadvantages:

Bitter taste, inconvenient to take; It is not suitable for long-term storage, and it must be prepared temporarily, which is inconvenient; The low extraction rate or retention rate of volatile and insoluble components may affect the curative effect.

Concept:

Decocting the decoction pieces in water or soaking them in boiling water, filtering, and making the filtrate into liquid preparation.

Key points of decoction preparation:

Decocting method is used to prepare decoction, and the preparation process mainly includes leaching and filtering. Frying mainly includes frying first and then descending, frying, splitting, melting and so on.

Scope of application:

Decoction has the function of cleaning diseases, and it takes effect quickly, and is suitable for patients with acute, serious or unstable diseases. Mainly for oral administration, such as Mahuang Decoction, Guizhi Decoction and Xiaochengqi Decoction. It can also be used for gargling, bathing and fumigation.

Other dosage forms of traditional Chinese medicine:

1, pills

Suitable for the treatment of chronic diseases and debilitating diseases. Grinding the ingredients into fine powder, and then mixing with water or honey, batter, rice paste, medicinal juice, beeswax, etc. Making into pill preparations with different sizes. Commonly used pills are honey pills, water pills, ointment pills and concentrated pills. Advantages of pills: slow release and absorption, long-lasting drug effect, and easy to take and carry. Disadvantages of pills: large dosage and slow effect.

Step 2 powder

It is suitable for treating acute diseases and regulating spleen and stomach diseases. The powder is prepared by grinding the medicines in the prescription into coarse powder, adding water, or decocting. Powder can be divided into oral and external use. According to the degree of pulverization, oral powder has fine powder or coarse powder, the fine powder can be taken by boiling water or directly swallowed, and the coarse powder can be decocted in water, also called boiling powder; Powder for external use is extremely fine powder.

Advantages of powder: simple preparation, quick absorption and convenient taking and carrying. So it is suitable for acute diseases. Special reminder: it has certain irritation to gastrointestinal tract, such as minerals and animals. It is recommended that capsules be swallowed.

Step 3 paste

Suitable for body conditioning, prevention and care of chronic, intractable, consumptive and cardiovascular diseases. The ointment is prepared by adding water to the ingredients, filtering off the residue, and then adding water, crystal sugar, honey, etc. Make into a thick paste. There are two kinds of ointment: oral ointment, fluid extract and decoction ointment, external ointment, ointment and hard ointment.

The advantages of this ointment are sweet taste, long-lasting effect, good stability, convenient administration, and suitable for men, women and children. Disadvantages of ointment: it needs to be prescribed by Chinese medicine experts who are good at ointment prescription and made by experienced pharmacists. The preparation process is complex, and the formation time of ointment is long, so it is difficult to produce on a large scale.