The most common way to purchase herbs is capsule or tablet format. This is because it is easy to use like this. In China, doctors devised various ways to use medicinal herbs. The most common way to administer herbs was decoction or tea. However, depending on the patient's circumstances and circumstances, there are many other ways in which herbs have been used. We will look at several different ways used in Chinese herbal medicine to manage herbs.
Decoction requires a river to boil in the water. However, water temperature and herb cooking time are important factors, so it is not just to boil herbs. The basic procedure is as follows. First of all, we need a container containing at least 4 cups of water. Traditionally decoction has been brewed in a pot of pottery. You can still do it like this. If you do not you can use glass (Pyrex) or stainless steel. Iron (like cast iron) is not recommended as you can get too much iron in your system. Aluminum is not recommended as it adversely affects health. Once you take your pot, you must add 4 cups of water with the herb you want to make tea. Please raise the heat and boil the water. When boiled, it must be boiled violently for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, you can cook by lowering the heat to boil down and adding 30-40 minutes. Some water evaporates in the process, but please do not concentrate the remaining liquid on two teas or less of tea. Once you have cooked your tea, you can drink the remaining tea two or three times a day, two hours before meal.
The tea and herbs you do not drink should be refrigerated during use to prevent spoilage. Do not forget to warm the tea when the cold is according to the Chinese medicine theory that cold can hurt your digestive system, so remove it from the fridge.
After you finish all the tea you can drink tea again by cooking herbs in the same way. After the second cooking, the rest of the herb can be discarded or calculated. It should be noted that some herbs require more cooking and other herbs require less cooking. Roots and rhizomes can be cooked for a long time. Leaves and flowers are not necessary long, if there is a mixture of herbs including roots, rhizomes, leaves, flowers, first start to cook the roots and rhizomes, then leaves and leaves during the last 15-20 minutes of preparation I add flowers. It is also important to keep your decoction in mind. Tea is used to heal your body, so please be careful what you are doing. Uncooked tea loses many medicinal ingredients and in the long term herbal formulation effects can not be fully obtained.
Pills are an easy and convenient way to use herbs. In ancient China herbs were crushed into very fine powders and blended together with water, honey, flour, or rice paste and molded into pills. Most prescriptions made in China are still made into small black pills. Traditional pills were used for herbs used for debilitating disorders requiring treatment over a long period of time or losing its effect when heated. For example, borneol is usually added as a component of a pill, as minerals and borneol can not be disposed of as heat is broken down into other compounds. In modern instruments tablets can be made with machine. Usually, some excipients (binders) help to hold tablets or tablets together. A component such as cellulose fiber may be added to put water in the tablet to help it break down in the digestive system. There may also be a corn protein "Zein" used to coat tablets to prevent herb breakdown and prevent tablets from being crushed. Your doctor can buy capsules and add herbal powders. Devices such as Cap-M-Quick can easily fill 50 capsules at once.
Elixir is very commonly used and is made by soaking herbs in wine for over a week. Wine improves circulation and also works as a conservative. Typically, the longer the soak time for the herb is, the more powerful the elixer is. Once ready, a small amount of prepared wine will be drunk regularly. For example, Tiger Bone Wine was once used to treat arthritis and rheumatism. I bathed the bones for 1 month to 1 year. As tigers are endangered species, tiger bones are no longer in use. The cat's bone is substituted for it because it belongs to the same family.
It means that Chinese wine is not the same as American or European products. Chinese wines and white chickens are high quality alcohol, which has a much higher alcohol content than American and European wines. It is a long way to go.
It is easy to turn tonic herbs into tincture. Add herbs to the bottle containing the higher alcohol and soak it for 2 to 3 months. Then drink shots as necessary. You can find many formulas in books and online. Author Daniel Reid's book "China Healing Herbal Handbook" contains many tonic agents.
By the way, Elixir is also known as a numeric keypad. A more powerful form is a herbal extract that is heated and alcohol is carried out commercially. Nonetheless, this is very dangerous and requires a self-contained system. Do not heat alcohol at home.
A more unusual treatment is to use a "thread" that is used to treat symptoms such as polyps and hemorrhoids. Immerse silk and cotton yarn in herbal decoction juice and boil. Yarns are used to slowly bundle polyps to limit blood supply. As a result, the polyp gradually shrinks and falls. Threads are changed every 2-3 days.
Today's "fumigation" and smoke methods are not used much. Herbs were burned together to produce smoke breathing patients. In ancient China, decoction was put in wooden barrels and boiled. The patient was placed on it so that he could inhale steam of decoction. The use of fumigants was also one way to treat asthma. Several herbs could burn and stop asthma attacks after 30 minutes.
These are some of the ways devised by Chinese doctors and adopted to treat people with herbs. Decoction, pills, elixirs are the most common method and are still in use today.
