Prepare to boil Chinese medicine, who knows how long a pair of Chinese medicine needs to boil?

Chinese medicine will instruct patients that a dose of medicine should be soaked in cold water for 30 minutes, then simmered for 10 minutes, then simmered for 20 minutes, and then filtered out. Repeat this for three times, mix the medicine juice three times and take it three times. Generally, Chinese medicine should be soaked in cold water for 20 minutes before cooking. For the first time, turn on a big fire and slowly cook for half an hour, then pour out the medicine. The second time, add cold water. I just selected the medicinal materials and boiled them until the liquid medicine boiled. Turn off the heat and cook for another half an hour, then pour in the first liquid medicine. Repeat the previous method for the third time.

The key to the boiling of traditional Chinese medicine lies in soaking medicine, especially some roots and hard herbs, which must be soaked before boiling. Some shells and minerals need to be fried first, and some toxic medicinal materials need to be fried for a long time to enhance efficiency and reduce toxicity. Generally speaking, more precious Chinese medicines can be decocted for three times, the first decoction takes a long time, the second decoction time is gradually shortened, and the amount of water added is gradually reduced. In this way, the effective components of traditional Chinese medicine can be fully dissociated for people to eat.

Generally use ceramic pot or stainless steel pot; Also, don't fry it only once to save trouble. In the process of decocting traditional Chinese medicine, the effective components are gradually dissolved into the soup from the inside of the medicine, but the medicine is not always dissolved. When the internal and external concentrations reach equilibrium, the dissolution will stop or slow down. Except for drugs that can relieve exterior syndrome of wind-cold syndrome, the correct decoction method of other traditional Chinese medicine decoction is: soak the decoction pieces in cold water for half an hour, then boil them with strong fire and fry them with slow fire for half an hour, then turn off the fire, pour out the first decoction, and immediately pour it into boiling water for two times.

The extraction rate of effective components is about 45% after decoction 1 time, which means that the effective components have been extracted about 90% after decoction for three times. If the medicine is only decocted 1-2 times, the total loss of effective components is 30%-55%, and there are many tonics, so it is better to advocate decocting twice.