Directly eat/use after crushing.
Grinding Chinese medicine into powder is actually a kind of "powder". Powder is divided into oral powder and external powder.
Some valuable Chinese medicines, such as Panax notoginseng, American ginseng powder, ginseng powder and Cordyceps powder, can be eaten directly or in capsules.
You can also mix several kinds of traditional Chinese medicines and grind them into powder, and then mix them with hot water to eat. For example, Shen Ling Baizhu Powder is made of white lentils, Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria, Glycyrrhiza, Platycodon grandiflorum, Lotus seeds, Ginseng, Amomum villosum, Yam and Coicis Semen, which can tonify the spleen and stomach and benefit the lung qi. In Tibetan medicine, powder is a very common dosage form, such as ten kinds of iron powder for diuresis and detumescence, Jianwei Xiaoshi powder and so on. The powder has the advantages of large specific surface area, easy dispersion, easy absorption, quick onset and simple preparation. Generally speaking, the single dosage will not be too large. I can't eat any more! )
External powder is generally used in stomatology, otolaryngology, traumatology and surgery. For example, tin powder used for throat erosion and swelling, eye drops with red eyes, seven-cent powder for traumatic injury and so on. And Yunnan Baiyao, which we often use. External application of medicinal powder can help the wound to heal. But the powder for external use must be disinfected, otherwise it may cause infection.
Crushing and decocting
What happens to the ordinary recipe after it is crushed and cooked? The answer is-it will paste the pot. It's a pity that the medicine hasn't been fried yet, and the paste has been fried first. So smart, you must have a way: just put the powder in a gauze bag and hang it in a pot to cook. This can really solve the problem of burning the pot, but it will also bring new problems.
Grinding is easy to lose volatile components.
You may have had this experience. Take a mint leaf or wormwood leaf and smell it. The taste is very light, but if you crush it with your hands and smell it again, it will be very strong. In this process, the aroma components are lost by volatilization into the air. These volatile components are often effective components. Therefore, for traditional Chinese medicine with volatile components, Chinese medicine will emphasize "after", that is, when other drugs are about to be fried, add a few more minutes. If it is ground and then fried, wouldn't it be a great loss of effective ingredients?
Non-effective components are easily ground and boiled.
As we know, plant cells have cell walls, like small houses made of cellulose, which contain medicinal components and other components. When the decoction pieces are decocted, starch will be trapped in the cell wall of the small house, and small molecular medicine components will be dissolved in the medicine juice. If the powder is ground and then boiled, it is equivalent to destroying and collapsing the small house, and the medicinal and non-medicinal ingredients such as starch and cellulose all go into the medicine juice. We took a sip of medicine, most of which were medicinal ingredients and a few were useless ingredients. Great, let's take a sip of the medicine. Although the medicinal ingredients may have become a little more, the useless ingredients have increased a lot. It used to be medicine, but now it has become "porridge", which has increased the burden on the stomach. In addition, some toxic and harmful ingredients, or ingredients with strong medicinal properties, can play a good role only by dissolving a little in the medicine juice, but now they are dissolved in the medicine juice, which invisibly increases many uncontrollable risks.
Pulverizing into powder, and making into pill.
Chinese medicine said. "soup swings" and "pills are slow" The decoction can clean the viscera, with quick effect and strong medicinal properties. The pill is slowly released, and the drug effect is moderate. Chinese medicine is ground into powder, and made into pills with water or honey as excipient, making into watered pills, honeyed pills and honeyed pills. If some drugs are decocted and extracted into medicinal juice, and the medicinal juice is made into pills as excipients, it is a concentrated pill. The advantages of pills are not only mild efficacy, but also convenient to carry, which masks the bad smell of some drugs. Disadvantages, it is also painful to think about taking a handful of medicine every time. In addition, raw powder is easily contaminated by microorganisms because it is used as medicine.
To sum it up. Traditional Chinese medicine can be ground into powder. According to needs, some traditional Chinese medicines can be pulverized into powder for internal and external use, or made into pills. However, it is not recommended to smash the general prescription into powder and decoct it. The characteristic of traditional Chinese medicine is flexibility. No powder or dialectical powder, it is too ineffective.