How to preserve cooked Chinese medicine?

If there are some diseases in the body, then we must focus on active treatment, because this can better help us prevent and solve the harm caused by these diseases to the body. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment has always been more advocated because it can reduce the occurrence of some side effects. However, we will find that the cooked Chinese medicine sometimes cannot be drunk all at once, so we need to understand the preservation method.

After the decoction is decocted, the juice should be filtered immediately and should not be left in the pot for a long time to prevent the liquid medicine containing too much colloid from gelling when cooled, making filtration more difficult and also prone to rancidity. When filtering the medicinal solution, pressure filtration can be used to minimize the amount of residue in the medicinal residue to maintain the therapeutic effect.

After the decoction is ready, it is best to take it within one day. Some people like to divide the decoction of Chinese medicine into several doses. If they cannot finish it on the same day, they will save it for the next day. From a medical and health perspective, this is not a good idea. Traditional Chinese medicine contains starch, sugar, protein, vitamins, volatile oils, amino acids, various enzymes, trace elements and other ingredients. Most of these ingredients are dissolved in the soup during decocting.

The general method of administration is to take half while it is still warm, and then take the other half 4 to 6 hours later. If the medicine is taken overnight or stored for too long, not only will the efficacy of the medicine be reduced, but the factors such as air, temperature, time and bacterial contamination will also affect the enzyme decomposition in the medicine, bacteria will multiply, and starch, sugar nutrients and other ingredients will ferment and hydrolyze, causing the medicine to go bad and deteriorate, which is harmful to human health after taking it.

The above is an introduction to the correct storage methods for cooked Chinese medicine. If you also encounter problems with the storage of these Chinese medicines in your life, you can use the methods introduced above to preserve them. This way, you can better utilize these medicines to help yourself treat and solve some diseases and reduce the harm of more diseases.