The process of refining traditional Chinese medicine is the basic
content and a required course of herbal medicine science. Refining
traditional Chinese medicine is the traditional craft to process herbs
further according to clinical medicine theory and the need of refining
herbal medicine. There are many ways to refine herbal medicine, which
has a close relationship with the effect of medicine. Practically, we
can eliminate or lower the toxicity or side-effect of the medicine; we
can also change the property of medicine or improve the effect of
medicine, or pulverize them for easier storage. There are many ways to
refine herbal medicine according to different property of medicine and
therapy needs. Refining some herb sometimes needs to add proper
auxiliary material and pay attention to operating...