There are more and more people who talk about health preservation, especially those who use traditional Chinese medicine to maintain health, so there are more people who soak in water with traditional Chinese medicine to maintain health and prescribe prescriptions for chronic diseases.
This has to talk about the decoction of traditional Chinese medicine, some people choose flowers and plants to soak in water, some people choose wall-breaking decoction pieces, some people choose traditional Chinese medicine granules, and some people choose traditional decoction.
There are also some people who choose decoction of Chinese medicine for convenience, once as a decoction worker in a Chinese medicine hall, I tell you: Chinese medicine must not choose decoction.
Why? Because each step of the decoction of traditional Chinese medicine may hide the cat, let's talk about it according to the normal decoction process.
After looking and hearing and asking, it is not easy to prescribe a prescription, and when you come to the pharmacy to grab the medicine, you have to choose whether to fry it yourself or decoction on behalf of it.
The decoction is all packed together, so some of the medicine will be crushed, and the corners and corners of the bucket will be cleared out for you, if the quantity is less, then less.
The second step is the soaking of traditional Chinese medicine, and there is a time limit for decoction (generally within two or three hours), if the decoction worker may reduce the soaking time or even skip this step directly because of the large amount of decoction, the urging of customers, and the busy forgetting.
There is also a very critical problem of adding water in this step, there is a reference formula for normal water addition, but due to the different materials of the medicine, flowers and plants absorb a lot of water, and the rhizomes absorb a small amount of water, and it is difficult to grasp this amount without enough experience, which will directly affect the intensity of the liquid out of the pot.
The next thing is to fry in the pot, there are special decoction methods such as decoction first and then inferior, but these are basically ignored directly in the process of decoction, not to mention that the pharmacist will not do it for you, the high-pressure decoction machine can't do it first and then down, can it be fried half and then opened?
There may be other situations in the decoction step, such as the valve is not closed when entering the pot, the soaked liquid flows away directly, and the customer urges the decoction time to be insufficient.
After the decoction is finished, the liquid medicine is hit into the medicine jar of the baler through the internal pressure of the decoction machine, and there will be a situation at this time, the liquid medicine is more or less, and the situation is very rare.
For example, the amount of 10 packets of liquid medicine should be decocted out normally, what if the liquid medicine is not enough? In most cases, water is added directly (rarely it will be fried again for you), what should I do if there is too much liquid? Pour it out directly.
In the same way as the packaging step, there may be a failure of the baler that will cause leakage, and the result is to directly add water to make up the amount of liquid medicine needed.
Now you should know why the taste and concentration of the same medicine are different every time, right?
There is still a problem in the above steps, that is, hygiene, let me explain to you what it means to use a cloth for multiple purposes: a rag to wipe the medicine pot, wipe the baler, wipe the countertop, wipe the floor......
At this point, the decoction liquid is finally freshly baked, and the pharmacist will tell you to take it back and put it in the refrigerator to refrigerate, and when you want to drink it, take it out and heat it, or put it in hot water to medium temperature and drink it.
But you don't know that what you drink is just "not fresh" medicine, whether it should be taken hot or not, whether it should be taken frequently or not, and those medicines that are put in the refrigerator are like overnight dishes, the essence of the medicine is gone, and you still expect it to cure diseases?
I once heard others say that another worry about decoction is stealing medicine, yes, it is to take away some or all of the valuable medicinal materials in it, especially the tonic Chinese medicine decoction should be more careful.
After going through the process of seeking medical advice everywhere, experiencing the prescription that I finally obtained, but in the end it was greatly discounted in the key efficacy, and I lost in my irresponsibility and laziness, is it worth it?