The Chinese medicine shopkeeper has three major tasks: it is necessary to identify the Chinese medicine collected on the mountain and on the ground, and then process it to inherit this skill. Chinese herbal medicines are made into pieces with a diameter of not more than 3 cm and a thickness of not more than 3 mm, and the Chinese herbal medicines are steamed and fried to reduce toxicity and remove peculiar smell. "Chinese medicine dispensing is not simply to make Chinese herbal medicines into Chinese herbal pieces that patients can use, but also to understand the doctor's prescription and know why doctors prescribe drugs like this." Wang Guobao said that while practicing, he was reading Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica. These books are the basic theories of Chinese medicine. How to combine these basic theories with practice needs to be consulted by masters. Zong Weixin, Liu Chunfu, Liang and other masters of Chinese medicine have all guided him.
As a Chinese medicine practitioner, you need to have clinical practice and understand the pulse condition, and what "floating, sinking, retreating and counting" means. By learning from the masters of TCM, Wang Guobao gradually accumulated valuable clinical experience of TCM.
Wan San Gao Wan is one of the four major dosage forms of Chinese patent medicine. In recent years, the cream is very popular in the national health care market. There is a saying in Chinese medicine: "ointment can be eaten, medicine can be eaten, and plaster can't be eaten." Wang Guobao told reporters very seriously that although this sentence sounds like a joke, we can realize that we need to be very cautious when inheriting skills and researching new drugs.
Gypsum making skills
Cream, also known as honey cream, takes honey as the main solvent. Wang Guobao explained to reporters that the prescription of Chinese medicine ointment pays attention to six words: prescription, medicine, water, utensil, fire and honey. "Fang" refers to the prescription. There are two kinds of prescriptions, one is the prescription of traditional Chinese medicine prescribed by the attending doctor; The second kind refers to the traditional prescription recorded for thousands of years. And "medicine" refers to the grasp technology of Chinese medicine, which should be "accurate", that is, the measurement should be accurate and the taste of medicine should be accurate. The use of water is also particular, which varies from person to person. On one occasion, when Wang Guobao was taking medicine for a patient, he learned in the process of chatting that he suffered from dental calculus all the year round, so Wang Guobao changed the ordinary tap water into high-purity pure water when cooking the paste. This can not only ensure the quality of the cream, but also not aggravate the customer's dental calculus.
The utensils cooked with cream are also very particular. Usually, when cooking traditional Chinese medicine, we use a casserole with stable chemical properties and not easy to be corroded by acid and alkali, but the casserole is not easy to be made into a large vessel, so we use a copper pot with good acid and alkali resistance and strong corrosion resistance as the cooking vessel. Temperature is the key before the medicine is finished. After putting the medicinal materials into the pot, pour in 8 times of water compared with the medicinal materials decocted by fire. According to different conditions of medicinal materials, decoct for 3-4 hours, clean the boiled juice and continue to pour water for decoction. This process will last 3-4 times. After concentrating and precipitating, filter the medicinal juice, concentrate the clarified medicinal juice with slow fire for 10 hour, and keep stirring until a clear paste "dripping into beads" appears.
The last process of "honey" is even more exquisite. Wang Guobao introduced that honey not only plays a role in improving taste, but also is a natural preservative. But the fly in the ointment is not ordinary honey. The honey used in the paste needs to be forged into 1 15 degree-1 17 degree "refined honey". Then mix the fluid extract with it, and finally make it into thick paste, which is suitable for long-term rest.
Wang Guobao's cream technology represents the top processing technology in China. Prescription design, clinical efficacy, observation and summary, production technology, etc. And the production of ointment needs the preparation and filing of product standards. For young people who are now learning the cream technology, they should not only have the practice of learning medicine, but also have the practice of learning medicine, so as to make health care products well. At present, it is not difficult to learn to make ointment, but it takes time to fully understand medical and pharmaceutical knowledge. In order to make a good paste, Wang Guobao also taught himself the course of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. "At present, the cream products are also mixed, inheriting the skills left by the ancestors and activating the Chinese medicine health care industry." Wang Guobao said. "Now there are seven people who follow me to learn butter skills. They are in their 20 s to 40 s, graduated from undergraduate courses, and graduate students also have them. " Wang Guobao said that in addition to taking apprentices, he also trained some qualified pharmacists and chief pharmacists.