When we introduce diseases, sometimes we will recommend several prescriptions to everyone, some prescriptions have proprietary Chinese medicines, some have proprietary Chinese medicines, but they are not easy to buy, and some even do not have proprietary Chinese medicines. Therefore, many people buy medicinal herbs and fry them themselves, but they don't know where to start when they look at these powders, plant roots, and things like cotton wool. This led to the fact that whenever I introduced a recipe, people always asked me if I could soak my feet or soak in water and drink it.
Of course, it is okay to soak in water, but not all prescriptions will do, and soaking your feet is also possible, but it is not always as fast as oral administration. In addition, take this release, are there many people decocting medicine? It was a sea of people. Fortunately, the hospital has ready-made equipment, and the medicine is boiled relatively quickly. But in some places where frying is rotated 24 hours a day, some problems will inevitably occur. So, why don't we master the decoction technique ourselves?
01 Preparation of decoctions
Decoction sounds like a lot of trouble, but it's actually just pre-treatment, tool selection, heat and order, and it's very simple, and you can learn it at home.
As the saying goes: "If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools." "So, how should we choose the utensils for decoction?
Home decoctions generally use casseroles, which are generally available in grocery stores, and can also be bought online. In addition, purple clay pot can also be selected, the purple clay material of the inner tank has a smooth surface, compact structure, strong air permeability, easy to clean without leaving a medicinal smell, and also has the function of freshness, which is faster than casserole heating, and retains the advantages of casserole. Hospitals and pharmacies generally use stainless steel decoction utensils, which are stable in nature, light in weight, fast in heating, acid-resistant and corrosion-resistant.
However, everyone should remember that copper, iron and aluminum should not be used for decoctions. For example, Li Shizhen said: "Where decoction medicine is not avoided with copper and iron, silver crockpots should be used." "Modern discoveries,
We have the tools, and then let's talk about medicinal herbs. Many people buy medicinal herbs home and find, oh, why is this medicinal herb not very clean, do you have to wash it? For some people who love cleanliness, they always like to wash the medicinal herbs and wash away the dust before decocting. However, Chinese medicine should not be washed before decoction. Because the Chinese medicine pieces have been purified during the processing process,
You can't clean it, everyone knows that. However, I would like to say that medicinal herbs cannot be washed, but they must be soaked. Before decoction of Chinese medicine, it should be soaked in cold water for 30~60 minutes, and the time should not be too long, so as not to cause drug enzymatic hydrolysis or mildew. The amount of water added is generally 2~3 cm after soaking, and the material of the medicine is different, the soaking time is also different, light Chinese medicine, the soaking time should be short when the temperature is high, heavy Chinese medicine, the soaking time should be long when the temperature is low, the purpose is to make the Chinese medicine moist and soft, conducive to the frying of the active ingredients
After the medicinal herbs are bought, everyone knows how to deal with them, so proceed to the next step, what water to use. Generally speaking, we usually use tap water to decoct medicine, in fact, this is not very good.
As we all know, the tap water we usually drink, in order to meet drinking safety standards will be disinfected and sterilized, so tap water generally has to add bleaching powder and other substances, and make it contain a certain amount of residual chlorine. Chlorine is a strong oxidant and can oxidize with many organic substances.
So, how to remove residual chlorine from raw tap water? The easiest and most effective way is to boil the water. Because the water is heated in the process, the residual chlorine in it will gradually evaporate with the water vapor.
But be aware that freshly boiled water or warm water to fry Chinese medicine is not good. This is because decocting Chinese medicine with boiling water is not conducive to water penetrating into the inside of the drug tissue,
The correct approach is: but pay attention not to use mineral water, because the content of metal ions in mineral water is high, and individual metal ions may react chemically with alkaloids, glycosides and tannic acid in traditional Chinese medicine, affecting the efficacy.
02Start decocting
And medicinal herbs have some special frying methods, such as frying first, then frying, boiling, frying separately, wrapping and so on. Let me give you a few examples.
Also, such as aconite, this drug has a certain toxicity, this toxic ingredient is destroyed when it is boiled for an hour or so, so that it can be boiled for an hour. If the amount of medicine is large, be sure to stay up until you taste aconite with your mouth and no longer feel numb.
In addition, there are drugs such as hearth soil, because what is to be taken is its thick and pure fragrance to dispel filth,
And some drugs need to be followed, such as patchouli, perran, white coconuts, sand kernels and other aromatic drugs,
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What about the heat of boiling medicine?
This should be more difficult for many people to control, but in fact it is not that complicated. When boiling medicine, it is necessary to follow the principle of opening the pot on high heat and decocting the medicine on low heat, and cannot be boiled over high heat all the time, otherwise it will dry quickly.
And the length of time to boil the medicine is related to the position of the disease, when it needs to be declared, the boiling medicine is generally just opened the pot, "aroma out" can be, at this time take the light clear breath of the drug, straight to the lung meridian, dispel evil spirits and go out.
In general, one dose of medicine is fried 2 times, up to 3 times. Most recipes can be boiled until the amount of water is one-third or one-half of the original, or first boil for 20 minutes, filter out a bowl of medicinal juice, then add water, boil for another fifteen minutes, filter out a bowl of medicinal juice, add water, boil for another fifteen minutes, filter out a bowl of medicinal juice, then mix three bowls of medicinal juice, heat it again, and you can drink. The medicine boiled in this way has both ingredients that can be boiled out in twenty minutes, and ingredients that can be boiled out after dozens of minutes, so it is more comprehensive.
03 Special decoction method
These are ordinary decoction methods, and we are generally enough to use at home. Here is to expand your knowledge and see what special decoction methods the ancients had.
The use of cold substances to decoct the drug can enhance the coldness of the drug and reduce the warmth of the drug. Take the often eaten sugarcane as an example, sugarcane is cold and sweet, and has the effect of removing heat and dryness, quenching thirst and eliminating phlegm.; There is also a saying about decocting medicine with wine. Wine is warm, spicy, can be meridians, tong, warm blood veins, disperse coagulation.; Honey tonifies qi, moisturizes, relieves pain and detoxifies, and can also be used as a decoction substance. The "Outline of Jin Kuang" records that the treatment of aconitum soup that is inextensible in the treatment of pain is to decoct aconitum with honey.
In addition to decocting medicine with different substances, sometimes the same medicine is also fried in different ways. For example, rhubarb, the exertion of rhubarb strength is closely related to the decoction method, and different decoction methods can make it play different functions and be applied to different diseases.
Frying first: For example, large chest soup, used for evil heat and inner water drinking in the chest caused by chest knots, rhubarb is cooked first in the square, cooked later. As Ke Yunbo said: "The living are sharp and first, and the mature are dull and gentle", this usage is not meant to be quick, but to cleanse the evil heat; Back: such as Da Cheng gas soup, used for evil reality re-evidence, its rhubarb is the back bottom, take its thin qi first and quickly down, dredge the tunnel, sweep dry, say: "use a bucket of water, boil the pu, take five liters, go to the pool, inside the rhubarb, and then boil to take two liters"; Frying together: such as peach pit gas soup, dangdang soup, rhubarb peony soup and other recipes in the rhubarb frying with other medicines, regardless of the order, is to take its blood part, with the effect of activating blood and removing stasis.
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