1, the choice of Chinese herbal medicines and instruments is very important.
As the saying goes? If a worker wants to do a good job, he must sharpen his tools first? If you want to cook a bowl of good medicine, you must choose the right instrument. For the convenience of modern people, many people choose to use electric cookers to fry directly. However, although the rice cooker is convenient to use, it is far less easy to control than an open flame. Just like when we cook, the dishes fried with an induction cooker will never taste better than those fried with a stove.
It is also incorrect for some people to use the iron pot for cooking to decoct medicine casually for convenience. Modern research has proved that the iron pot does react with some components of Chinese herbal medicine, thus affecting the efficacy. Therefore, if you want to cook a bowl of good medicine, it is best to use an open fire with a casserole, so as to give full play to the best efficacy of Chinese herbal medicines.
2. Chinese herbal medicine decoction needs reasonable soaking and decocting.
Now people's life time is very urgent, and many people don't have enough time to decoct medicine, so they will directly add Chinese herbal medicines to the pot to decoct medicine. This practice is also incorrect, because many Chinese herbal medicines are very hard, even if they are lightly thrown from the stems and leaves of some flowers and plants, they are very dry. If it is not soaked, it is difficult to cook thoroughly, and it will also affect the frying of effective ingredients.
And some Chinese herbal medicines are poisonous, such as aconite and aconite. If soaked and boiled for a long time, its toxicity is difficult to decompose. In real life, poisoning incidents caused by short soaking time and short decocting time of Chinese herbal medicine aconite root also occur from time to time. Therefore, if you want to cook a bowl of good medicine, reasonable soaking is also very necessary.
3. The cooking time of Chinese herbal medicines is also very important.
Most people are impatient now, but decocting Chinese medicine is a test of patience. I believe that many people boil traditional Chinese medicine by adding water, adding medicine, boiling with strong fire, and pouring it out after frying. Few people will stare at the medicine can all the time. In fact, the boiling of Chinese herbal medicines also requires high temperature.
When we watch TV series, we will find that most ancient people used a cattail fan to blow the fire in the stove with one hand and kept stirring the herbs in the pot with chopsticks with the other. Fierce fire can quickly activate dried Chinese herbal medicines, but it can better dissolve effective components at a slight fire temperature. Now most people add water to the fire before watching TV and playing mobile phones. By the time they realize it, I'm afraid they have smelled the paste in the medicine can.
4, different Chinese herbal medicines, decoction time should be treated differently.
Now most people directly decoct traditional Chinese medicine, and some people change to decoct traditional Chinese medicine. It can be said figuratively, that is? A pot of stew? . In the eyes of the ancients, different Chinese herbal medicine decocting methods in the same pot are also very different. For example, Chinese herbal medicines such as stones need to be fried first, and Chinese herbal medicines such as fragrant flowers and plants need to be fried later. If they have strong adhesion or irritation, they need to be fried, fried and so on. , are very particular about.
Modern people boil traditional Chinese medicine decoction, how much more complicated? Decoct soup instead of water? 、? Rongchong? Wait, but I'm afraid few people will simply treat it differently. As we all know, the effective components of hard Chinese herbal medicines are difficult to dissolve if they are not decocted first, while aromatic Chinese herbal medicines will volatilize if they are decocted for too long, losing more than half of their efficacy. Therefore, if you want to cook a bowl of good medicine, you must treat different Chinese herbal medicines differently.