How to make pills

Nowadays, if we want to achieve good conditioning effects for many diseases, we will choose Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine not only has few side effects, but can also treat the root cause of the disease. However, the Chinese medicine prescribed by Chinese medicine practitioners needs to be boiled into decoctions, which is rather troublesome, especially for some people who need to go out. Is it possible to make the Chinese medicine into pills by ourselves? This way it will be convenient to carry. How to make pills?

Decoction actually refers to the traditional dosage form of Chinese medicine, decoction. Decoction refers to a liquid preparation made by decocting medicinal pieces in water or soaking them in boiling water, removing the residue and taking out the juice, also known as "soup".

What people usually call "pills" are generally divided into three types in traditional Chinese medicine preparations, including water pills, honey pills and drip pills.

Not all decoctions can or are suitable for being made into pills; this depends on the nature of the medicine. Generally, pills are made from drug powder as raw material.

Water pills refer to pills made from fine powder of medicinal materials with water as a binder. The preparation process of water pills is basically as follows: raw materials, ingredients, crushing, screening, mixing, adding water, filming, adding water, pilling, screening, molding, drying, polishing, and packaging.

Honey pills are a very common type of pill. It is a pill made of fine powder of medicinal materials with honey as a binder. The basic production process includes: pre-treatment of medicinal materials, powdering, mixing of medicines, adding warm honey, pill making and packaging.

Dropping pills refer to spherical preparations made by extracting and purifying herbal medicine pieces, heating and melting them with a suitable matrix, and then dropping them into a condensation medium. The main production process includes: pretreatment of medicinal materials, extract or powder, batching, melting and mixing with matrix, dripping, pill making, pill washing, pill selection, coating and packaging.