Does it take long to cook Chinese medicine in casserole?

The duration and time of drug decoction depend on its performance. Generally speaking, exterior-relieving drugs and heat-clearing drugs should be decocted with strong fire for a short time, and then decocted for 3~5 minutes after boiling; Tonic drugs should be decocted slowly with slow fire for a long time, and then decocted for 30~60 minutes after boiling. Specific use of fire, need to follow the doctor's advice. Decocting soup instead of water: some drugs are difficult to take in order to prevent the soup from being turbid with other drugs. It is advisable to take supernatant instead of water first, and then fry other drugs, such as kitchen soil. In addition, some drugs, such as corn stigma, loofah sponge and Lysimachia christinae, are light in texture, large in dosage and large in volume, and must be decocted in water.

When decocting traditional Chinese medicine, pour the traditional Chinese medicine into the cleaned jar, pour clear water, 2~3 cm above the surface of the traditional Chinese medicine, and soak for about half an hour. If it is a Chinese herbal medicine with large water absorption, add more water. Adults and children should also keep up with the amount of water supplement. Son, with a little water and too much medicine, you can never finish it. Then put it on the fire, first boil it with high fire, and then cook it with low fire for about 30 minutes. Then pour out the potion and put it aside. This is 1 time.

Decocting drugs should be based on the nature and dosage of drugs, with different temperatures and time. Generally, drugs are boiled with strong fire and then with slow fire, and kept slightly boiling. From the beginning of decoction, decoction pieces such as flowers, stems and leaves are decocted for 2 minutes, roots and seeds are decocted for 30 minutes, and the second decoction is 15 minutes. Exterior-relieving drugs and aromatic drugs should be decocted with strong fire, boiling for 10 minute for the first time and 5 minutes for the second time.

Such as magnet, gypsum, talc, keel, etc. Should be cooked first, more minerals, volatile drugs after cooking. Volatile drugs such as mint and borneol will run into the air after being cooked for a long time, and their medicinal properties will be weakened or even absent. Well, obviously, the longer you cook, the better. At least the volatile ones should be cooked short. There are also some precious medicinal materials, such as Ejiao, which were originally dissolved in hot water and soaked in boiling water. When the medicine is boiled, just add the filtered medicine soup directly.