How long is the best time to boil Chinese medicine? Is it better to stay up as often as possible?

Updated on healthy 2024-02-08
7 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    Method of decoction:

    1.Soaking before decoction: The medicine must be soaked before decoction to make the active ingredients easy to leach. Generally, the soaking time is 15 minutes. The soaking time of the drug, which is mainly roots, seeds, rhizomes and fruits, is generally half an hour.

    2.Number of decoctions: 2 or 3 times is preferred.

    3.The temperature of the decoction: Generally, it is used before boiling with martial fire (i.e., strong fire), and then changed to simmering (i.e., weak fire) after boiling, and kept in a slightly boiling state, which is conducive to the decoction of active ingredients.

    5.Decoction of special medicines: First decoction of medicines:

    Some hard herbs, the active ingredient is not easy to decoction, generally decoction for 30 to 40 minutes, and then mixed with other drugs before decoction. After the drug: generally the smell is aromatic, containing volatile oil or not suitable for long-term decoction of the drug, to be put into the pot 5 10 minutes before the drug is decocted.

    Package decoction: generally seeds and various pollen medicines, packed in gauze bags and put into the group of medicines to decoction. Fry and add in:

    Some valuable medicines should be decocted separately and then mixed with the liquid medicine to be taken together. Common ones are ginseng, American ginseng, deer antler velvet, etc.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    Different recipes have different time to boil. Generally speaking, antidotes, such as cold medicines, are good to boil for about 5 minutes.

    And the tonic is generally boiled slowly on low heat, which can be boiled for a longer time. If you are not at ease, after grabbing the medicine, ask the doctor again, and they will generally tell you.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    It's not that the longer the better, an hour is the best... Boil a pair of medicines 2 or 3 times.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    An hour ?It has to be boiled dry, and it takes about 20 minutes at a time

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    Summary. If the first frying takes about 1 hour, if it is the second frying, it usually takes 15-20 minutes.

    If the first frying takes about 1 hour, if it is the second frying, it usually takes 15-20 minutes.

    If it's the first fried, after boiling, simmer for another 15-20 minutes.

    Before boiling traditional Chinese medicine, you should soak the medicine in cold water for 20 30 minutes, and the manuscript collapse is not the same when the drugs with different effects are boiled, and the drugs that clear the pyrolysis table and aromatic sources are 15 to 20 minutes after boiling. If it is a hail tonic drug, switch to low heat and cook for 40 to 60 minutes after boiling.

    The specific boiling time of Chinese medicine depends on the different drugs. For example, the decoction time of drugs for **** disease and respiratory disease is shorter, and the decoction time for tonic drugs is longer.

  6. Anonymous users2024-01-31

    1. Divergent drugs are mostly diaphoretic antidote drugs for the treatment of external infections, mostly flowers, leaves, whole herbs, etc., which are light, easy to diverge, aromatic in taste, and contain more volatile oils, so the boiling time should be short, and the boiling time can be boiled for 10 minutes after the first decoction, and about 5 minutes after the second decoction.

    2. Most of the tonic drugs are drugs that regulate the body's qi and blood, yin and yang, and contain a lot of nutrients, so the boiling time is the longest, and then boil for 30-60 minutes after the head is boiled, and the second boil is boiled for 10-15 minutes.

    31.Shellfish, ore drugs, because of the quality of the hard and difficult to decoction taste, should be broken and then boiled, 10-20 minutes after boiling other drugs. Such as tortoise shell, turtle shell, ochre, stone cassia, raw oyster, raw keel, magnet, raw gypsum, etc.

    Drugs with a lot of sediment such as hearth soil, glutinous rice roots, etc., and light and large plant medicines such as reed roots, prunella vulgaris, bamboo ru, etc., should be decocted to clarify the juice first.

    2.If the smell is fragrant, the drug that takes effect from its volatile oil should be added to the decoction when the general medicine is about to be decocted, and it can be boiled for four or five minutes to prevent the volatilization of the active ingredients, such as peppermint, sand kernels, cardamom, etc.

    3.Some valuable drugs, in order to preserve their active ingredients as much as possible, reduce the absorption of other drugs when decoction with other drugs, can be boiled separately, such as life should be cut into small pieces, added to a covered small bowl, stewed for two or three hours to take the juice.

    4. After taking out the medicine, put it in a special container for the microwave oven, mix it with an appropriate amount of water, it is advisable to raise the drug by a horizontal finger, cover it tightly, then put it in the microwave oven, adjust to high heat, time it for 10 minutes, decoction for 10 minutes, and then wait for 5 minutes, continue to boil for 10 minutes, take out the liquid medicine, add an appropriate amount of water and level with the residue, continue to boil for 10 minutes, take out the liquid medicine, mix the liquid medicine twice, and take it according to the doctor's instructions.

  7. Anonymous users2024-01-30

    Summary. Pro, the general Chinese medicine boiling about an hour or so can be, the first decoction for half an hour, the second decoction for 20 minutes, together generally about an hour on it, if you need to soak the medicine before the decoction, and then need half an hour of soaking time, about an hour and a half to basically complete all the work of the decoction.

    Pro, the general boiling of Chinese medicine about an hour or so can be a banquet, yard and head decoction for half an hour, the second decoction for 20 minutes, together generally about an hour on it, if you need to soak the medicine before the decoction, and then need half an hour of soaking time, about an hour and a half to basically complete all the work of decoction.

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