Pills are spherical solid dosage forms made by grinding drugs into fine powder or adding appropriate binder to medicinal extracts. Compared with decoction, pills have the advantages of slow absorption, lasting drug effect, saving medicinal materials and convenient taking and carrying. Gao Liyun said: "Pills are slow, and they are slow and curable. Pills are suitable for chronic and debilitating diseases, such as Liuwei Dihuang Pills. However, there are also some pills with heavy medicinal properties, mostly aromatic drugs or drugs with high toxicity, which are not suitable for decoction, such as Angong Niuhuang Pill and Sanwubeiji Pill. Commonly used pills are honey pills, water pills, ointment pills, concentrated pills and so on.

1. honey pills are pills made of refined honey as binder, which are divided into big honey pills and small honey pills. Honey pills are soft, mild and lasting, and have the effects of tonifying and correcting taste. It is often used to treat chronic diseases and debilitating diseases, and needs to be taken for a long time, such as Buzhong Yiqi Pill and Guipi Pill.

2. Water pills, commonly known as water pills, are small pills made of water (cold boiled water or distilled water) or wine, vinegar, honey water and medicinal juice. As an adhesive. Compared with honey pills, water pills disintegrate, dissolve, absorb and take effect faster, and are easy to swallow. They are suitable for many diseases, such as Fangfeng Tongsheng Pills.

3. Paste pills are small pills made of fine powder and rice paste, batter and yeast paste as binders. The paste pill has strong adhesion, hard texture and slow disintegration and dissolution. Oral administration can prolong the efficacy and reduce the adverse reactions and gastrointestinal irritation of highly toxic drugs, such as Che Zhou Pill.

4. Concentrated pills are prepared by concentrating the drugs in the prescription or the decoction of some drugs into paste, then mixing with the fine powder of other drugs, drying, grinding into powder, and making pills with water or honey or medicine juice. Because of its small size, high effective components and small dosage, it can be used to treat many diseases.