What does China Pharmacopoeia mean by "flooding pills with water"?

Making pills with water is making pills with water.

Water pill is also called water pill. That is, traditional Chinese medicine is pulverized into fine powder, and cold boiled water or purified water or medicinal soup is used as a binder to make pills, which are called water pills or water pills.

There are many kinds of pills, including western medicine pills and Chinese medicine pills. Pill is the oldest and most commonly used dosage form in traditional Chinese medicine preparations, especially the compound preparation of Chinese patent medicine. Many of them are made into pills, and there are several kinds of adhesives for making pills, such as water, honey, beeswax, paste, water and honey. So what is used as a pill binder is "for pills", and the pills made are called pills. There are: honey pills, ointment pills and so on, so pills can be divided into water pills, honey pills, honey pills, wax pills, ointment pills and so on. For example, the "Yueju Baohe Pill", which only uses water as a binder, is called water pill, also called water pill.

According to the process and shape, it can also be divided into big honey pills, small honey pills, pellets, dropping pills, concentrated pills and so on. For example, "Yanhou Xiaoyan Pill" and "Liushen Pill" are all called water pills, but they are also called pellets in terms of technology and shape. Traditional Chinese medicine pills such as "Liuwei Dihuang Pill" are generally small honey pills, but technically they are also called concentrated pills. There is also a kind of dropping pills called dropping pills in modern science and technology, such as "Compound Danshen Dropping Pills".