Why are most medicines bitter?

Maybe humans have adapted to seasoning, I don't think sheep think that the grass they eat is unpalatable, it's just that we don't get used to the taste of non-things. There are many things in Chinese medicine, such as sour, sweet, spicy, and salty. Whatever it is, if it is not used properly, it will have adverse effects, let alone drugs.

What is used to reverse the abnormal state of the human body, it will naturally have an impact on the normal human body, so it is also "poison". On the one hand, the medicine is bitter on the one hand, the outer packaging sugar coating is removed after the drug filler is bitter, why not sweet, fragrant, this is to ensure the stability of the nature of the drug, not easy to heat expansion, moisture, cracking, etc., but also to prevent being eaten by insects, so use some materials with bad taste; On the other hand, most of the active ingredients in medicines are plant alkaloids, and the taste of plant alkaloids is bitter. With the development of technology, many medicines have been made of fillers with improved taste materials, such as children's medicines, many of which are sweet, of course, if children still refuse to eat, they can be fed with medicine.

Bitterness is a taste that makes people feel miserable, and the most obvious effect of this taste is to make people instinctively avoid it. Something that has a bitter taste can be harmful to human life, and bitterness means the toxicity of a thing. But why is there a saying that "good medicine is bitter"?

Illness means that the human body has abnormal functions, and if these functional deviations cannot be corrected by the body's own ability, external forces are needed. In people's daily behavior, the most powerful external force can penetrate into the human body is diet, so perhaps only an abnormal diet can give an unusual force to the organs, and "bitterness" is the characteristic of this abnormal diet. In addition to the possibility of pushing those organs that are deviant to their normal positions, this abnormal diet also has an effect on normal functioning, which produces ***.

However, the human body itself contains a very strong ability to automatically correct deviations, which can be quickly corrected by the body. <>

I know this is because Chinese medicine is made through some herbs, and herbs are all bitter.

This is because the old saying that good medicine is bitter and good for disease, because Chinese medicine adds a lot of Chinese herbs. It is very good for the body, and of course the taste will be a little bitter.

Because the main content of the performance of traditional Chinese medicine includes the four natures, five flavors, meridians, ups and downs and toxicity, the active ingredients of traditional Chinese medicine are mainly alkaloids, and the taste of alkaloids is basically bitter, fishy, and smelly.

The reason why herbs are medicinal herbs and have not developed into vegetables and fruits for daily consumption is because of the unpleasant taste, and this unpleasant taste (mainly bitterness) reflects its toxicity. For example, medicinal plants contain a variety of alkaloids (the main bitter taste**), which is also the main substance of liver toxicity and kidney toxicity. This is the fundamental reason why human beings have not chosen vegetables or fruits in the process of long-term evolution, and it is also the result.

Conversely, the plants that are selected for food are largely non-toxic (some wild vegetables are slightly toxic) and have an acceptable taste. To put it simply, this is the result of evolutionary selection, which humans find delicious and basically non-toxic; Bitter, basically poisonous. Therefore, the ancients in my country said that "medicine is three parts poison", and I am honest and do not deceive me.

You're wrong on this topic. There is no **value.

Some Chinese medicines are bitter because most of the active ingredients in Chinese medicine are alkaloids, and the taste of alkaloids is basically bitter, fishy, and smelly.

Drinking Chinese medicine has six methods of Chinese medicine to dispel bitterness, which can make Chinese medicine easier to eat.

In 24 hours of a day, the body has two "** periods" for absorbing drugs, one from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. and one from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Bitter herbs can be taken during the above period after meals.

Master the temperature of the liquid medicine The taking of traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to "the cold is hot, and the hot is cold". However, the taking of bitter Chinese medicine does not stick to this. Relevant expert studies have confirmed that the tongue is more sensitive to temperatures above 37, so the temperature of bitter Chinese medicine decoction should be controlled between 15 and 37.

Mastering the Containing and Pharyngeal Regions Studies have shown that the human bitter taste receptors are mainly concentrated in the front half of the tongue, with the tip of the tongue being the most prominent. Therefore, after the liquid medicine is consumed, it is best to store it at the base of the tongue quickly and swallow it naturally, or you can use a spoon to directly send the liquid medicine to the root of the tongue and swallow it homeopathically.

Grasp the speed of taking medicine The longer the liquid stays in the mouth, the more bitter the taste will be, so the taking of bitter Chinese medicine should be clean and fleeting.

Drink an appropriate amount of warm water after taking the medicine This is not only conducive to the absorption of the liquid medicine by the gastrointestinal tract, but also can relieve the bitter taste of the liquid medicine to a certain extent.

Add condiments Add honey, sucrose, etc. to the bitter solution, but try to use less or no condiments for Coptis chinensis and gall grass. If necessary, it can be mixed with licorice, jujubes and the like.

Traditional Chinese medicine is divided into five flavors, bitter, sour, pungent, salty, and sweet. Bitter open, bitter down. Bitter medicine is mostly cold medicine. Tonic products are sweet, so not all Chinese medicines are bitter.

Because the commonly used medicines in traditional Chinese medicine are mainly botanicals, and most of the active ingredients of botanicals are alkaloids, most of the alkaloids have a bitter taste after being dissolved in water, but in fact, traditional Chinese medicine is not all bitter, and the medicine is divided into five flavors: sour, bitter, sweet, pungent and salty.

Traditional Chinese medicine is not all bitter, and the medicine is divided into five flavors: sour, bitter, sweet, pungent, and salty, but there are more bitter medicines.

There is a saying in traditional Chinese medicine: [Fight poison with poison] When you are sick, there is a toxin in the body, so you have to use another toxin to restrain it, have you ever seen a sweet poison? Not at all! So the sicker you are, the more bitter the medicine becomes.

We all know that most of the medicines, whether they are Chinese medicine or Western medicines, are bitter and difficult to swallow, but we only know that the medicine is bitter, we don't like to eat it, do we know why the medicine is bitter?

That's because most of the active ingredients in the drug are alkaloids, and the taste of alkaloids is basically bitter, smelly and other tastes, plus after the drug is concentrated, the taste is even more bitter.

Bitterness. It can clear heat and relieve fire, reduce qi and relieve asthma, stop nausea and stop hiccups, Tongli stool, clear heat and dampness, dispel cold and dampness, and diarrhea fire and strengthen yin.

You must know that 95% of drugs contain alkaloids, and the human body is alkaline, and the alkaline substances in the drugs can regulate the secretion of hormones in the body and the operation of organs, so drugs also play a role in regulating human health. Moreover, the bitter taste of the drug can clear away heat and detoxify. To give a popular example, if people have a rejection of bitterness, then in the same way, other organisms will naturally reject bitterness, so germs are no exception.

It is precisely because the medicine is bitter that we are reluctant to touch or taste the medicine too much, but it is often these bitter drugs that save our lives.

Therefore, just like the gold, wood, water, fire, and earth of the gossip, the sourness, sweetness, bitterness, spiciness, and saltiness of the five flavors are normal, and medicine accounts for the bitterness of the five flavors.

Medicines may be the excrement of various microorganisms, that is, bacterial feces. Because bacteria hate their own feces, drugs have an inhibitory effect on microorganisms.

Generally speaking, the bitterness we feel is not the bitterness of the active ingredient of the drug itself, but the bitterness of the pharmaceutical filler. The real active ingredient of each tablet is very small, and the amount of filler accounts for more than 90%. The significance of the existence of these pharmaceutical fillers is to protect the active ingredients of the drug from moisture and deterioration, and a few fillers are used to improve the taste of the drug.

Everyone wants to have a healthy body, but it's normal to have a little illness and eat something. It is often said that good medicine is good for the bitter taste and good for the sick. Many medicines, especially many Chinese medicines, are bitter.

Why is that? Isn't the sweet one a little more flavorful and a little more popular? What is the reason for this?

Let me answer your questions.

Traditional Chinese medicine is mainly derived from plants and animals, and contains a variety of chemicals. Through analysis, scientists found that most Chinese medicinal materials contain a class of chemicals called alkaloids. Alkaloids are a class of nitrogen-containing basic organic compounds found in nature, mainly in plants.

Most of them have a complex ring structure, and nitrogen is mostly contained in the ring, which has significant biological activity. Most alkaloids have a bitter taste, and a few have a spicy or other taste. Since a serving of Chinese medicine is often composed of many kinds of medicinal materials, as long as one of the medicinal materials contains alkaloids, the medicinal juice boiled out is bitter.

When it comes to bitterness, everyone naturally thinks of Coptis chinensis, which is famous for its bitterness, and the root of Coptis chinensis is its alkaloid - berberine alkaloids. In fact, the most bitter in Chinese herbal medicine is not Coptis chinensis, but a plant called Sophora sophora, because the roots and flowers of Sophora sophora contain a variety of alkaloids.

However, Chinese medicine is not all bitter, such as licorice. Licorice contains an ingredient called glycyrrhizic acid, which. The sweetness is 80 300 times that of sucrose.

Western medicine is different from traditional Chinese medicine, and the active ingredients in Western medicine are generally more certain. If the chemicals contained in the active ingredients taste bitter, the medicine is bitter, even more bitter than traditional Chinese medicine. In order to improve the taste, masking drugs such as capsules or icing are often used to mask the bitterness and make it easier to swallow.

At present, the production of traditional Chinese medicine has partially adopted the production method of Western medicine, and on the premise of ensuring the efficacy of the medicine, it is made into tablets, water, and also added with sugar coating, capsules, or licorice, etc., so as to turn bitter medicine into refreshing medicine as much as possible.

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It's not bitter, it's delicious! It will not affect the efficacy of the drug, but also reduce the toxicity of the drug and promote the absorption of the drug.

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Traditional Chinese medicine is bitter because it is a semi-finished product of air-dried and crushed medicinal materials, which completely retains the original medicinal ingredients and other impurities of the medicinal materials, so it is said that traditional Chinese medicine tastes very bitter.

That's because Chinese medicine is a combination of many plants, and different plants have different smells and tastes, so when mixed together, there will be a bitter taste.

Because many Chinese medicines are pure plants, and many of them are plant rhizomes, it will be a little bitter.