How is Chinese medicine made?

Section 1 How Chinese medicine is made

(I) Harvest of traditional Chinese medicine

The harvesting of Chinese medicine mainly refers to the harvesting of botanicals.

(1) Roots and rhizomes (2) Stem and leaf parts (or whole plant) (3) Flowers and pollen (4) Fruits and seeds

(5) Bark and root bark

(b) Processing of traditional Chinese medicine

Concocting is the necessary processing before the drug is applied or made into various dosage forms. It includes the general treatment (reshaping, removal of impurities, etc.) of raw herbs and special treatment of some herbs.

The purpose of concoctions are: 1 to eliminate or reduce drugs, potent or side effects; 2 to change the performance of drugs to meet clinical needs; 3 to facilitate the preparation and storage; 4 to remove impurities and non-medicinal parts to make the drug pure, to ensure that the amount of prescription is accurate or conducive Take

(III) Fire Preparation

The fire preparation method is to heat the medicine directly or indirectly on the fire in order to achieve the aim of enhancing the medicine effect, alleviating the medicine property, reducing the toxicity, and easily drying and crushing. (1) fried (2) ç‚™ (3) calcined (4) ç…¨ (5) baking

(4) Water production method

Water-making is a type of method where herbs are treated with clear water or other liquid excipients. The water can make the drug clean, soften or adjust the drug.

Commonly used shower, wash, soak, float, dip, run, fly and so on.

(5) Water and fire co-production method

The co-production of water and fire is a method of co-processing drugs through fire and water to change performance and morphology.


(1) steaming and boiling (2) quenching

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