Water pills are the dosage form of medicine and have no special meaning.

The same medicine can be produced in many dosage forms, such as: tablets, pills, powders, suppositories, injections, granules, capsules, oral liquids, ointments, gels, and patches. ......etc.

Due to different production processes, tablets are divided into: plain tablets, sugar-coated tablets, film-coated tablets, enteric-coated tablets, effervescent tablets, sustained-release tablets, controlled-release tablets, etc.

The same pills are divided into water pills, small honey pills, large honey pills, paste pills, concentrated pills, wax pills, dripping pills, pellets, etc. due to different production processes.

Water pills generally refer to small Chinese medicine pills made with water as a binder.