Do you know the “safe dosage” to take when consuming Chinese medicines?
When determining the safe dosage of a Chinese medicine, the nature of both the medicine and the patient are taken into consideration during prescription. If the...
Category: Chinese Herbal Medicine
Do you know the methods of making Chinese herbal decoctions?
Chinese herbal decoction started as early as the Shang Dynasty. It places emphasis on the decoction utensils, the use of water, degree and duration of heating, ...
What are decoctions (tangji ), herb plasters (gaoji ) and pills (wanji )?
Zhongyao jixing refers to the form that Chinese medicines take after having been processed.Zhongyao jixing consists of those that are: Taken orally: decoctions ...
What are herbal incompatibility?
The 18 incompatible herbs (shibafan ) and 19 herbs of mutual antagonism (shijiuwei ) are specific taboo medicines ofpeiwu . The three main taboos to be avoided ...
Are Chinese medicines poisonous?
Many books on herbs use terms such as poisonous (youdu ), extremely poisonous (dadu ), slightly poisonous (xiaodu ) and non-poisonous (wudu ). What actually is ...
What is the compatibility of Chinese medicines (zhongyao peiwu)?
The selection and combined usage of two or more types of medicinal materials based on the different symptoms and medicine nature is called compatibility of medi...
what is meant by four properties and five flavours (si qi wu wei ), meridian tropism (gui jing ) and direction of medicinal action (sheng jiang fu chen )?
Si qi wu wei refers to the four properties and five flavours of Chinese medicines.Gui jing refers to the function of Chinese medicines, andsheng jiang fu chen...
How do we select good medicinal materials?
The six methods of Chinese medicine authentication are: source authentication , trait authentication , microscopical authentication , physiochemical authenticat...
Why do Chinese herbs need to be processed?
Herb Processing Most of the Chinese herbs gathered are crude drugs. Many Chinese herbal medicines need to be processed to bring out their full efficacy. Herb p...
What is meant by authentic medicinal materials
Authentic medicinal materials (daodi yaocai ) is also known as pure, typical medicinal materials (didao yaocai ), a special term used for pure, high-quality med...