Powder, also known as powder, is a dry powder preparation made by pulverizing and mixing drugs and appropriate excipients. Oral or external use. Powder refers to a powdered preparation made of one or more drugs by crushing and mixing. The preparation method of powder is simple, and powder can be used when it is inconvenient to take pills, tablets, capsules and other dosage forms.
Powder can be divided into oral powder and external powder. The powder has large specific surface area, is easy to disperse, is beneficial to compression and absorption, and takes effect quickly; The preparation method is simple, the dosage is easy to control, and the drug quality is relatively stable; Suitable for children; It is more convenient to transport and carry. The general process flow of powder preparation: crushing, sieving, mixing, batching, quality inspection and packaging.
Powder has a wide range of applications, and can be used for both chronic diseases and acute diseases. Oral administration can regulate qi and blood of viscera, dredge meridians of limbs, and external use can remove putrefaction, promote granulation, nourish poison and reduce swelling.
Oral powder: generally ground into fine powder and taken with warm water. You can also decoct in water to get juice, which is called boiling.
External application powder: generally used for external application, applied to sore surface or affected area, such as Shengji powder; It can also be used to blow the throat, such as ice boron powder.
At present, in some hospitals, patients can choose traditional decoction pieces or decoction-free granules, in which decoction-free granules are powder made of a single Chinese medicine.