Rinse the medicinal materials with clear water to remove dust and impurities. After washing, add water to drown the medicinal materials for about one or two centimeters, and then boil them with strong fire. After the medicinal soup is boiled, boil it for two or three minutes (for sterilization) with high fire, then stew it for twenty or thirty minutes with low fire, then take out the medicinal soup and pour it into a bowl. This is the first batch of medicinal soup.
2. Add the medicinal materials into cold boiled water, boil over low fire for 20 minutes. This is the second batch of medicinal soup.
3. The first batch of medicinal soup contains more volatile components of flowers and plants, and the second batch of medicinal soup contains more rhizome and mineral components. Add the first batch of medicinal soup and the second batch of medicinal soup, pour them together and mix them, which is the soup to drink in a day. It can be taken in two or three times. If you haven't finished eating, put it in the refrigerator first.
Readers should be reminded that if the soup of traditional Chinese medicine is cold, it must not be heated by microwave, because microwave will change the nature of the medicine. If you want to heat it, you can boil it again in a glass or ceramic container or heat it in water. In addition, don't use aluminum pot as a container for decocting medicinal materials, try to avoid using iron or even stainless steel, and it is better to use ceramics or glass.
When cooking Chinese medicine soup, be sure to cover it, so as to keep the effective ingredients in the soup as much as possible. Sensitive people, smelling the smell of soup, have begun to alleviate allergic symptoms, which is also the reason why effective substances escape into the air.
There are many problems that need to be paid attention to during the decoction of traditional Chinese medicine, such as whether the decoction of traditional Chinese medicine should be stamped or not.
In order to thoroughly fry the Chinese herbal pieces and fully fry the effective components in the medicine, it is best to cover and fry them. Especially when the decocted medicine contains components that can volatilize with water vapor, such as mint, agastaches, Amomum villosum, etc. It is best to cover the fried clothes. In this way, the water vapor containing volatile components of the medicine can condense into water droplets in the cover and drip back into the medicine pot, thus reducing the loss of effective components of the medicine.
For most root-fixing, seed or animal medicines, such as ginseng, astragalus, Polygonatum, Ophiopogon japonicus, Schisandra chinensis, gecko, keel, etc. It should also be covered with decoction, so that more effective components of the drug can be decocted in a limited time to improve the curative effect of the drug.
For those traditional Chinese medicines with loose texture and large volume, such as loofah sponge, wormwood, chrysanthemum, mulberry leaves and so on. Don't cover it when decocting, stir it at any time to make it fry evenly.