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Chapter 65 Making Yixin Buqi Pills by Yourself

Before starting to make the "Yixin Buqi Pill", Zhang Chi carefully read the content on the second page of the World Book, and basically understood it by heart.

This is a traditional Chinese medicine honey pill.

In the clinical practice of traditional Chinese medicine, there are decoctions, pills, and even various plasters for external use.The medicine for treating rheumatoid arthritis on the first page of the World Book is a decoction. After the medicinal materials are formulated according to the prescription, they are boiled into a liquid medicine, that is, a decoction.This time it's the pills.

Pills are generally divided into two types, honeyed pills and watered pills.

Honeyed pills are prepared by grinding and pulverizing Chinese herbal medicines to make fine powders, and then use refined honey as a binder to make solid pills.

Now, no matter in the countryside or in the city, there are fewer and fewer Chinese medicine shops that can make pills. In fact, if you know the method of making them, it is not very complicated.

Zhang Chi is going to make the first batch of "Yixin Buqi Pills" by himself.

After knowing the production method clearly, Zhang Chi began to do some preparatory work, such as taking out the electronic scale, plugging in a traditional Chinese medicine grinding and powdering machine, arranging the purchased medicinal materials, and so on.

First, powder the medicinal materials bought back, that is, into fine powder.

If it was placed in ancient times, the medicinal materials could only be ground slowly by manual grinding, and then further ground into fine powder.

Now it is much simpler, because machines can replace labor. What Zhang Chi uses is a special Chinese herbal medicine powder machine, which can grind all kinds of Chinese herbal medicines into fine powder.

A total of twelve Chinese herbal medicines.

Zhang Chi ground them all into fine powder one by one, and then packed them separately in the prepared large glass bottles for later use.

After these are installed, the next step is to dispense the medicine according to the prescription.

The dosage of each medicinal material is clearly written in the prescription in the world book, as long as it is converted into grams.Using an electronic scale, Zhang Chi quickly prepared the first medicine proficiently.

After the preparation, the powders of these twelve kinds of Chinese medicinal materials are mixed and stirred evenly, and then the honey is refined.

Honey is the binder of this "Yixin Buqi Pill". After refined honey, these drug powders are bonded together, and finally made into honeyed pills, that is, pills.

Because honey has the effects of nourishing the lungs and relieving coughs, moistening the intestines and laxatives, moistening dryness and detoxifying, etc., it can complement the main medicine to enhance the curative effect, and is especially suitable for making tonic Chinese patent medicines.At the same time, it can correct the taste of medicine, and is soft and plastic, and can be arbitrarily squeezed into pills of various sizes.

After honey is refined, the adhesive force is strong, which can effectively adhere to the drug, and the pill block is not easy to harden after being mixed with the drug powder, disintegrates slowly, and the drug effect is long-lasting (the pill is slow), so it is easy to maintain the drug properties and avoid the medicinal ingredients Oxidative deterioration and loss of damage, to maintain the inherent odor characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine, so honey is often used as a binder.

"Yixin Buqi Pill" is no exception.

Zhang Chi not only bought back the twelve traditional Chinese medicines used to make "Yixin Buqi Pills", but also bought back honey.

The medicine powder has been prepared. There are a total of 5 medicines. The ratio is strictly according to the requirements of the prescription. After the preparation, the total weight of the medicine powder of one medicine is about 600 grams, which is enough to make hundreds of pills.

The refined "Yixin Buqi Pill", three grams per pill, one pill each time, once a day.

Next start refining the honey.

When he was studying in school, and when he started working after graduation, Zhang Chi did it a few times, so he has some experience in refining honey.

First boil the honey with a strong fire, then change to a slow fire and boil it slowly. At the same time, put a bowl of cold water next to it, and pay attention to the color of the honey.

When the honey is found to be yellow and frothy, use a bamboo chopstick to stick a drop in the honey, and then put the bamboo chopsticks on the top of the cold water bowl, let the honey drip into the water, if the honey does not spread out in the water and sinks to the bottom, that is, "drops form beads". ", this is considered refined.

Zhang Chi did it very seriously and didn't dare to be careless.

After a lot of hard work, the honey was finally refined, and dropped into cold water, the real "drops become beads".

Moreover, the bubbles of the boiled honey are reddish brown, shiny, and very sticky when twisted by hand, and white silk can be pulled out.To be precise, what Zhang Chi refines is old honey.It is suitable for making pills from traditional Chinese medicinal materials that contain a lot of fiber or minerals with poor viscosity.

After the honey is refined, the next step is to mix and blend the medicine.

Zhang Chi poured the refined honey into the medicinal powder contained in a sterilized basin one by one with a large spoon, and at the same time stirred it in the medicinal powder with thick bamboo chopsticks, just like making dumplings with water and kneading noodles.

While pouring honey, adjust the medicine powder, stop adding honey when the dry medicine powder is almost invisible, and continue to stir until the medicine powder and honey are completely adjusted, and the medicine powder and honey are mixed into a ball in the basin.

The last is rubbing pills.

The weight of this medicine plus honey is about 900 grams after reconciliation, and each pill is 3 grams. A total of 300 pills can be rubbed out, which is a big honey pill.

Zhang Chi first divided the reconciled medicine group into three big balls, and each big ball can make 100 pills.Divide each big medicine group into five small balls on average, twist each small ball into long strips, cut into 20 sections with a knife, twist each section into a pill, and each pill is exactly 3 grams.

The whole process is completely handmade.

In order to prevent the pills from sticking to hands and utensils, Zhang Chi used a small amount of glycerin in the process of rubbing the pills, which is not easy to stick and makes the pills round and shiny.

The first pill is ready.

Zhang Chi looked at it happily. The whole pill was in good shape and brownish red in color. He was quite satisfied with both shape and color.

The pill was weighed again on an electronic scale, the weight was basically 3 grams, and the error was relatively small.

The first one, the second one, the third one...

These pills were rubbed one by one by Zhang Chi and placed neatly.In the air, there is also a unique medicinal fragrance of these pills.

After all rubbed, they will be packaged.Zhang Chi prepared enough small medicine bags, and packed each pill separately in a small plastic medicine bag.

After rubbing dozens of pills, Zhang Chi's movements became more and more proficient, and his movements became faster. Pills took shape in his hands, and then neatly placed together with other pills.

Although the production process is relatively complicated, it is more suitable for mass production.

Like today, it was just a small trial, and only used the amount of a medicine.

In the future, two or even three or five ingredients of medicine can be used at one time, and thousands of pills can be made out of one-time pills.It is more suitable for making large quantities of pills than decoctions.

After a few days, Meng Xiang and Chen Sitong can be taught how to make pills, and let them make pills without Zhang Chi doing it himself.

What Zhang Chi has to do is to prepare the powder of each medicine, so he doesn't have to worry about other things about making pills.

"Brother Chi, what is this!"

Meng Xiang happened to go upstairs and saw Zhang Chi who was busy, his eyes fell on the rubbed pills, and his tone revealed surprise.

He walked forward quickly, picked up a pill, looked at it happily, and smelled it again, his eyes were full of curiosity.

Zhang Chi smiled, "Meng Xiang, guess what kind of disease this pill is for?"

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