First, smash
To make Chinese medicine pills, it is necessary to pulverize Chinese medicine into fine powder first. You can use a Chinese medicine pulverizer suitable for home use, and then prepare an 80-mesh sieve. It should be noted that some traditional Chinese medicines contain certain moisture or viscosity, so they are not easy to be crushed.
It is best to break it initially and then heat it evenly in a pressure cooker. When your hand touches the medicine and feels hot, you can turn it off, but you should still turn it on until the temperature of the medicine drops obviously, and then turn it on repeatedly until the medicine is completely dry.
Second, refine honey.
When making Chinese medicine pills, we should choose the best honey and pay attention to the specific gravity. Generally speaking, the weight of powder: honey = 1:0.7- 1. If you want to make the medicine as hard as soybeans, you can change the ratio to 1: 0.7, and make soft pills with the ratio of 1: 1. When refining honey, put the honey into the pot and slowly heat it to boiling with low fire, and small and dense bubbles appear, and the small bubbles become big bubbles.
Third, the mixture of medicine and honey.
You should pour honey into the powder while it is hot and stir it constantly with chopsticks and other utensils. When the block becomes smaller, you can stir it by hand to mix all the powders together and ensure the hardness of the powders is consistent.
Fourth, divide pills.
Pay attention to distributing pills as soon as possible before the powder is cold. If it must be divided into large pills, the daily dose should be evenly distributed according to the dose arranged when buying the medicine. If it is calculated as soon as possible, it is also convenient and quick to operate.
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Matters needing attention in making traditional Chinese medicine pills:
1. When making pills, first weigh the pills and accurately measure them, that is, calculate the number of pills to be made each time and the total amount of each pill, weigh the pills according to the calculated amount and knead them to make the expected number of pills. The function words of rubbing pills can be determined according to the size of pills. After rubbing pills, divide them into small pieces and roll them into balls.
2. Glue the powder into pills with the size of 0.5- 1 mm, and then increase it layer by layer to form pills. The powder with moderate viscosity should be selected for demoulding, which is too sticky, easy to bond and too small to form.
3. In order to avoid sticking hands and instruments, a proper amount of lubricant can be used during operation. Lubricant can be made of glycerin or sesame oil (peanut oil) and beeswax by heating and melting in a certain proportion. You can add a little more beeswax in summer.
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