中药炮制已有两千多年的悠久历史,是我国一门独特的加工药物的技术。炮制最早叫“炮炙”,二字均从“火”,说明炮炙是古人最初为了降低药物的毒性和偏性而用火加热处理的一种方法。以后随着医药科学知识的发展,“炮制”越出了用火加热药物的范围,发展到今日广义的“炮制”范围。炮制包括了三个内容:(一)使药物清洁纯净的净选法(即挑拣、筛选、剔刮、漂洗、抽心、剪切等法);(二)使药物便于调配称量,易于煎出有效成分的饮片切制法;(三)使药物性能得到调整(转 The Chinese medicine has produced a long history of more than 2,000 years. It is a unique technology for processing drugs in China. The earliest is called “firecracker” and the word “fire” indicates that the artillery was originally used by the ancients in order to reduce the toxicity and bias of the drug and heat it with fire. Later, with the development of medical scientific knowledge, “concocting” has gone beyond the scope of using fire to heat up the drug and developed into the general “concocted” range today. The concocting consists of three parts: (1) the net selection method for cleaning and pureness of drugs (ie, picking, screening, scratching, rinsing, pumping, shearing, etc.); (2) Making the drugs easy to dispense and easy to weigh The effective ingredient of the cut piece method; (three) to adjust the performance of the drug (turn