How long does it take for Chinese patent medicine to be metabolized?

Nowadays, we usually choose Western medicine, but the increasing number of side effects of Western medicine has caused us to no longer trust it. As a result, traditional Chinese medicine passed down by our ancestors is becoming more and more popular. Traditional Chinese medicine mainly consists of Chinese medicinal materials and Chinese patent medicines. Many foods in our lives are Chinese medicines, but we just don’t know much about them. So, how long does it take for Chinese patent medicine to be metabolized when used to treat diseases?

1. How long does it take for Chinese medicine to be metabolized?

Traditional Chinese medicine is made from a combination of different Chinese herbal medicines. The metabolic cycle of traditional Chinese medicine is bound to be different for each person who takes it. The metabolic cycle of traditional Chinese medicine is affected by many factors. Let’s take a look at the factors that affect the metabolic cycle of traditional Chinese medicine.

1.1 Symptoms

Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes observation, auscultation, questioning and palpation. Even for diseases with the same symptoms, there may be differences, and Chinese medicine practitioners must prescribe the right medicine for the right condition. Different diseases naturally have different metabolic cycles of traditional Chinese medicine. Some may have a 3-day cycle, others may have a week or even longer.

1.2 Constitution

A person's physique can determine many things. People with weak constitutions are not suitable for strong medicines. They can only adjust themselves slowly, which is a process.

Therefore, how long does it take for Chinese medicine to be metabolized is something that cannot be defined. In addition, Chinese medicine is not without side effects, but the side effects are relatively small. Chinese medicine is more specific and needs to be treated according to the symptoms.

2. Commonly used processing methods of traditional Chinese medicine

2.1. General preparation method: including picking, sifting, winnowing, kneading, mixing, dehairing, grinding, pounding or beating, and making wool.

2.2. Water preparation method: including washing, boiling, bleaching, soaking, skipping and core removal.

2.3. Fire preparation methods: including baking, roasting, frying (plain frying, frying with bran, frying with salt, frying with rice, frying with earth), scalding, calcining (stewing in an iron pot, calcining in an iron pot, calcining in a crucible, calcining with direct fire, simmering with ash fire, simmering with furnace fire), quenching, roasting (roasting with honey, vinegar, wine, ginger juice, salt water, oil, mutton fat), stewing (stewing in flour batter or paper pulp, baking, stir-frying with heavy bran, stewing in rice soup).

2.4. Water and fire combined method: including boiling (boiling with water, boiling with wine, making vinegar, boiling with wine and vinegar together), steaming (steaming with water, steaming with wine, steaming with vinegar).

2.5. Other methods: replication method, fermentation method, frosting method, germination method, etc.