What are the characteristics of Chinese patent medicine?

Traditional Chinese medicine prescription is a Chinese medicine product with different dosage forms made of Chinese herbal medicine, including pills, powders, ointments and pills. It is the essence of effective prescription created and summarized by China medical scientists through thousands of years of medical practice.

It is characterized by convenient administration, easy carrying and storage, mild drug properties and long-term administration. There are many kinds and strong selectivity. Different dosage forms have different characteristics. For example, ordinary pills and honey pills: the fine powder of medicinal materials is made of honey as adhesive, which is the most widely used one in clinical practice of traditional Chinese medicine. Pills weighing more than 0.5 g (including 0.5 g) are called honey pills, and pills weighing less than 0.5 g are called honey pills. Honey is nutritious and has the functions of moistening lung, relieving cough and relaxing bowels. At the same time, it has the characteristics of soft texture, slow absorption and mild effect. Nourishing drugs, children's drugs and expensive and volatile drugs are often made into honey pills. It is often used to treat chronic diseases and debilitating diseases, such as Liuwei Dihuang Pill and Shenrong Pill.

It takes a certain time for pills to dissolve and disperse and be gradually absorbed by the human body. Therefore, pills have slow curative effect and long-lasting efficacy, which can reduce the bad smell of some medicinal materials and are the most commonly used dosage forms of Chinese patent medicines at present. But pills still have some disadvantages, such as large dosage and inconvenient taking, especially for children. In addition, the quality standard of active ingredients in pills is still difficult to determine.

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