"The medicine is ready, drink it while it is hot!" This is the experience of many people drinking Chinese medicine. So, does this make sense?
Some traditional Chinese medicines are not easy to drink while they are hot. They must be cooled to be effective.
Traditional Chinese medicine theory is very particular about the temperature of oral decoction. There are more than ten kinds of light extraction methods, and there are three kinds of liquid temperature: warm extraction, hot extraction and cold extraction.
Warm clothes, hot clothes and cool clothes.
Warm administration is to take the decocted decoction or medicine delivery water after heating. Generally, traditional Chinese medicine decoction should be "taken warm", that is, the decoction should be filtered out immediately after boiling, and then drunk when it is dried to 30℃ ~ 37℃ at room temperature; Pills and powdered Chinese patent medicines should be taken with warm water, which is also a warm service.
Hot service means taking the just-fried liquid medicine while it is hot. Hot medicine is commonly used in cold syndrome, so it should be taken hot. For example, Chinese medicine for dispelling cold should be "taken while it is hot". After taking it, you can eat some hot porridge and hot water to help your medicine.
Cold service refers to taking the boiled soup after cooling. Generally, it is used as a drug to detoxify and clear heat, especially in summer, which requires such traditional Chinese medicine, so "cold service" is better.
Patients with vomiting or poisoning should take cold medicine. In southern China, some "herbal tea" that is often drunk in summer actually belongs to a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. As the name implies, many herbal teas are drunk cold, and it is better to drink cold. However, for the decoction that is not suitable for cold service, it will cause gastrointestinal irritation, abdominal pain, diarrhea or vomiting after cold service.
In the complicated pathological process, when the disease develops to a serious stage, there are special medication methods to adapt to the special needs of the disease, such as "true heat and deficiency of cold" syndrome, and the method of "taking cold medicine with heat" should be adopted to adapt to the changes of the disease; If it is "true winter vacation fever", we should adopt the method of "hot medicine and cold clothes" to adapt to the transformation of the disease.
Otherwise, the phenomenon of rejection and vomiting will often occur when swallowing the medicine juice, and the therapeutic effect will not be achieved. This is a kind of anti-assistance in traditional Chinese medicine treatment. Traditional Chinese medicine has "treating heat with cold and warming it;" The theory in Huangdi Neijing that "heat should be used to treat cold and cool it" means "cold should be used to keep out cold and heat should be used to keep out heat".
According to TCM syndrome differentiation, heat syndrome is characterized by fever, thirst, dry stool, short yellow urine, red tongue, yellow tongue coating and rapid pulse. Cold syndrome includes chills, anhidrosis, epigastric cold pain, cold limbs, pale tongue, thin and white fur and so on.
Judging from the name of the prescription, the temperature of taking medicine can also be preliminarily judged. Under normal circumstances, most Chinese medicine prescriptions called "Tang" (such as "Guizhi Tang") should be taken while they are hot, while most Chinese medicine prescriptions called "Yin" (such as Dayuanyin) need cold clothes. Because in the old saying, soup and drink are distinguished by temperature.
In short, whether Chinese medicine is cold or hot depends on the specific situation. Medicine for fever can be eaten cold, and medicine for cold syndrome should be eaten hot. Patients can master the temperature of taking medicine according to their own situation. However, for the sake of caution, it is best for patients to ask Chinese medicine about the method of taking after prescribing medicine.
Source: Sanjiu Health House