What are the methods of Chinese medicine concoctions

Chinese medicine concoction is an important part of traditional Chinese medicine. The history of TCM concoction can be traced back to primitive society. In order to use medicines, people need to carry out necessary treatment, such as washing, crushing, biting into granules with teeth and so on, so there is the germ of Chinese medicine concoction. In the process of human's long-term use of Chinese herbs, accumulated a variety of concoctions of experience and methods. Below, I will introduce you in detail. 1. Repair: (1) pure treatment: pick, pick, bump, sieve, scrape, brush and other methods, remove ash, impurities and non-medicinal parts, drug clean and pure. Such as picking off the acacia flowers in the branches, leaves, brush off loquat leaves, stone reed leaves back west of the fluff, scrape off the thick Park, the meat of the coarse skin and so on. (2) crushing treatment: using pounding, grinding, pounds, filing and other methods to make the drug crushed to meet the requirements of preparations and other concoctions. Such as oyster, keel crushed for easy decoction, powdered mother of pearl pounded for easy swallowing; rhinoceros horn, antelope horn pounds into thin slices, or filed into powder, easy preparation and taking. (3) cut processing: the use of cutting, guillotine method, the drug cut into certain specifications, so that the active ingredients of the drug is easy to bath out, and easy to carry out other concoctions, but also conducive to drying, storage and transfer of weighing. According to the nature of the herbs and medical needs, slicing has many specifications. Such as asparagus, betel nut should be cut into thin slices, zedoary, atractylodes should be cut into thick slices, astragalus, chickweed vine should be cut into diagonal slices, white peony, licorice should be cut into rounded slices, cinnamon, Houpaku should be cut into rounded disc slices, mulberry white bark, loquat leaf should be cut into silk, white foxglove, ephedra should be guillotined into segments, Poria, Pueraria lobata should be cut into pieces, and so on. 2. Water system: the method of using water or other liquid auxiliaries to treat herbs is called water system. The purpose of the water system is mainly to clean the drug, soften the drug, adjust the medicinal properties. Commonly used shower, wash, soak, bleach, dip, run, water fly and so on. Here are three commonly used methods. (1) Run: also known as boring or vol. According to the softness of the texture of the herbs, processing temperature, tools, showering, washing, soaking, dipping, drying, covering, voluntarily run, dew run, packet run, double run, double run and other methods, so that the water or other liquid auxiliaries into the Xu Xu, in the premise of no or little loss of efficacy, so that the herbs are softened to facilitate the cutting of tablets. Such as drenching wet thorns, soak wet betel nut, wine wash wet angelica, ginger juice moistened thick Park, voluntarily moistened tianma, cover moistened rhubarb and so on. (2) Bleaching: the drug will be placed in a wide water or long running water for a period of time, and repeatedly change the water, in order to remove the fishy flavor, salt and toxic components of the method known as bleaching. Such as kombu, seaweed, salt epiphyllum bleaching salt, purple river car bleaching to remove the fishy flavor. (3) water fly: the Department of drugs in water by the nature of the sedimentation of medicinal herbs very fine powder is not the method. Will not dissolve in water after crushing the herbs in the milk bowl or grinding trough with water **** research, mass production with a ball mill grinding, and then add a lot of water, stirring, the coarser particles of powder that is sinking, fine powder suspension in water, pouring; coarse particles and then fly and then research. Pour out of the suspension precipitated, separated, dried into a very fine powder. The powder made by this method is not only fine, but also reduces the loss of powder flying in the grinding. Commonly used in minerals, shellfish drugs powder. Such as fly cinnabar, fly glycerite, fly andrographis, etc.. 3. fire system: (1) fried: fried yellow, fried charcoal, fried charcoal and other degrees of stir-fry method. Fried yellow, fried caramel so that the drug is easy to crush processing, and moderate the medicinal properties; seeds of drugs after frying is easy to dissolve the active ingredients in the decoction. Fried charcoal can moderate the potency of the drug, side effects, or to enhance the efficacy of its astringent hemostasis. There are also mixed solid auxiliary materials such as soil, bran, rice fried, can reduce the irritation of the drug, enhance the efficacy, such as soil fried atractylodes macrocephala, bran fried Citrus aurantium, rice fried Zanthoxylum, and so on. With sand or talc, clam powder with the fried method used to be called hot, the drug is heated evenly crispy, easy to decoct the active ingredients or easy to take, such as sand fried andrographis paniculata, clam powder fried gelatin, and so on. (2) sizzling: with liquid excipients mixed with fried drugs, so that excipients penetrate into the drug tissue, in order to change the nature of the drug, enhance the efficacy or reduce the side effects of the concoction is called sizzling. Usually use liquid auxiliaries such as honey, wine, vinegar, ginger juice, salt water, children's stools. For example, honey astragalus, licorice can enhance the effect of tonifying the middle and benefiting the qi; honey baking Bacopa monnieri, winter flowers can enhance the effect of moistening the lungs and relieving coughs; wine baking rhizoma rhizoma rhizoma can enhance the work of blood circulation; vinegar baking the fragrant adenophorbia can enhance the effect of liver and pain relief; salt baking Cortex Eucommiae can enhance the function of tonifying the kidneys; wine baking the Changshan can alleviate the effect of vomiting, and so on. (3) Calcination: Calcination of drugs directly or indirectly with fierce fire, so that the texture is brittle and easy to crush, giving full play to the therapeutic effect. Hard mineral medicine or shellfish medicine more direct fire calcination, calcined to red to the degree, such as quartz, sea clamshells. Indirect calcination is to place the drug in a fire-resistant container closed calcination, to the extent that the bottom of the container red through, such as the production of blood Yu charcoal, Chen brown charcoal, and so on. (4) simmering: the use of wet flour or wet paper wrapped in drugs, placed in a hot fire ash heated to the face or paper black to the degree that can reduce the potency of the drug and side effects, such as simmering ginger, simmering Gansui, simmering meat Doukou and so on. 4. Water and fire **** system: (1) cooking: is the use of water or liquid accessories and drugs **** with the heating method. For example, boiling coriander in vinegar can reduce toxicity, and boiling scutellaria in wine can enhance the efficacy of clearing lung heat. (2) Steaming: It is the method of heating the drug with water vapor or water. For example, steaming rhubarb in wine can moderate the effect of diarrhea. Some drugs are repeatedly steamed and sun-dried in order to obtain a suitable effect for medical needs. Such as he shouwu after repeated steaming and sunshine no longer have diarrhea force and can tonify the liver and kidney, benefit essence and blood. (3) quenching: is the drug burning red, quickly into the cold water or liquid auxiliaries, so that the method of crisp. After quenching is not only easy to crush, and auxiliary materials are extremely absorbed, can play the expected therapeutic effect. Such as vinegar quenching natural copper, turtle shells, Huanglian boiling juice quenching glycerite. (4) PPPPP: It is the method of putting the drug into boiling water for a short time and taking it out immediately. Often used in the kind of drug peeling and fleshy juicy drugs dry processing. 5. Other methods: Commonly used are germination, fermentation, frosting and part of the legal method, etc. The purpose is to change the original properties of the drug. Its purpose is to change the original properties of drugs, increase the new therapeutic effects, reduce toxicity or side effects, or to make the drug more effective and pure quality. Such as the germination of rice, wheat; fermentation method to obtain Shenqu, tempeh; Croton oil to take cream, watermelon processing frost; legal method of half-summer and so on. Chinese medicine concoction equipment Chinese medicine concoction is based on the theory of Chinese medicine, in accordance with the different requirements of medical treatment, blending and preparation of traditional Chinese medicines taken by a variety of processing techniques. Its purpose is to reduce or eliminate the toxicity or side effects of the drug, to facilitate taking and improve the efficacy. However, due to the drive of economic interests, ignoring the Chinese generations of medical scientists in the long engaged in medical practice gradually developed with traditional characteristics of the process.