What is Chinese Medicine Poultice? What is the difference between a poultice and a herbal liquid? How to store the poultice including temperature?

In Chinese medicine theory, a poultice is a kind of ready-made medicine with a combination of advanced nutritional nourishment and therapeutic and preventive effects. It is a thick, semi-liquid or frozen dosage form made from a large compounded soup based on different prescriptions established according to different body qualities and clinical manifestations of people, and mixed with certain auxiliary materials after thick decoction. Among them, the prescription of drugs as far as possible to choose the local herbs, all the production process operation is strict, only through the fine processing of the cream can eventually become the top quality.

The main advantages of the soup are; 1. can adapt to the needs of Chinese medicine dialectic theory of treatment, which can be composed of prescription dosage according to the changes in the condition, the appropriate addition or subtraction, and flexible application; 2. compound, in order to give full play to the multi-effective composition of the drug and the integrated effect; 3. soup for liquid preparations, fast absorption, can quickly play a role in the efficacy of the drug; 4. water as a solvent, no irritation and side effects; 5. preparation of Simple and easy to do. However, there are some shortcomings in the soup; 1. decoction liquid volume is large, bitter taste, take, carry inconvenient; 2. more than based on the doctor's prescription for temporary preparation and application, should not be prepared in large quantities, but also not conducive to the timely rescue of critically ill patients; 3. easy to mildew, fermentation, can not be stored for a long time. Therefore, in recent years, the effective dosage reform of the soup, such as Chinese medicine, granules, oral liquid, etc. are to try to retain the advantages of the soup to overcome its shortcomings on the basis of the development of new dosage forms of traditional Chinese medicine.