What kind of pot is good for decocting Chinese medicine?

Boiling Chinese medicine can use casserole, ceramic pot, multi-layer stainless steel pot and glass pot. These types of pots and pans are stable, not easy to chemical reaction with the drug, and slow heat transfer, heat evenly, not easy to paste the pot, are good pots and pans for boiling medicine.

As long as the inner wall is not made of copper, iron or aluminum that oxidizes easily in the air or reacts chemically with Chinese medicine, all types of pots and pans made of materials that do not oxidize easily in the air or react chemically with the medicine can be used to boil Chinese medicine!

The water used for decocting medicines is clean, tap water is fine, no need to use pure water, distilled water, etc. In winter, warm boiled water can be used to make medicines. In winter, warm boiled water can be used to soak the medicine. Drugs generally do not wash. Such as seeds, fruits as the main drug can be soaked for an hour, the general herbal soak 40 minutes, winter need to be soaked for an hour.

Decoctions of the fire is divided into "fire", "fire". The fire refers to a large fire, the fire is urgent, the fire is fierce, the temperature rises quickly, the water evaporates more than one kind of decoction. WenHuo refers to a small fire, fire slow, weak fire, temperature change is not big, water evaporation slow a kind of decoction. General decoction of the first large fire decoction boiling, and then switch to small fire decoction for another 25 minutes can be. However, some formulas such as antidepressants, heat-clearing agents, aromatic medicine-based formulas only use large fire, should not be decocted for a long time with small fire. The thick flavor and tonic type of prescription should be decocted for a long time with low fire to make the flavor of the medicine come out. In addition, the poisonous medicines such as epiphyllum, wolfsbane and aconite should be decocted on low heat for a long time in order to minimize their toxicity.