Take Chinese medicine while it's hot?

"When the medicine is ready, drink it while it is hot!" this is the experience of many people drinking traditional Chinese medicine So, is there any reason for this? Traditional Chinese medicine theory is very particular about the temperature of oral decoction There are more than ten ways of taking medicine alone, and there are three ways of taking medicine specifically: warm, hot and cold General Chinese medicine decoction should be "warm", that is, the decoction should be filtered out immediately after decocting, and then drunk when it is dried to 30 ℃ - 37 ℃ under normal temperature; pills and bulk Chinese medicine should be served with warm boiled water, which is also a kind of warm clothing The traditional Chinese medicine of dispersing wind and cold should be taken "hot", and some hot porridge and hot water can be taken after taking it to help the medicine And the drugs for detoxification and clearing away heat, especially the traditional Chinese medicine for relieving summer heat, have better effect of "cold taking" In the south of China, some "herbal tea" which is often taken in summer also belongs to traditional Chinese medicine As the name suggests, a lot of herbal tea is cool to drink, cool effect is better As for taking traditional Chinese medicine, there is an old saying in traditional Chinese medicine, which is called "hot taking for Yang disease, cold taking for yin disease" Therefore, according to the specific analysis of the situation, the medicine for the treatment of fever can be taken in a cool way, while the medicine for the treatment of cold syndrome should be taken in a hot way Patients can control the temperature of medication according to their own conditions Generally, patients with "Yang disease" often show heat syndrome, which can be manifested as fever, thirst, dry stool, short and yellow urine, red tongue, yellow tongue coating, rapid pulse, etc.; while "yin disease" mostly shows cold syndrome, which can be manifested as cold fever, no sweat, abdominal cold pain, cold limbs, weak tongue, thin and white fur, etc Finally, in traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions, a trick is that, in general, most of the hot clothes called "soup" (such as "Guizhi soup") and most of the cold clothes called "drink" (such as "Da Yuan drink") need to be taken Zhang Yatong said: "there is a certain reason for this, because in the old saying, soup and drink are different from each other by temperature However, for the sake of prudence, the patient had better ask the TCM doctor about the relevant taking methods after prescribing the medicine to prevent deviation."