Four major plasters in China

Don said "Fried". Generally, it is a thick semi-fluid finished product made by decocting, deslagging, concentrating and adding honey or sugar for oral administration. It has the advantages of high drug concentration, small volume, good stability and convenient administration.

The observation of decoction ointment is mainly nourishing, which has a quiet healing effect and moisturizing properties, so it is also called "ointment" or "ointment". Some people add sugar as "sugar paste" and honey as "honey paste". This kind of cream is popular all over the country in recent years.

Simple decoction can be divided into dry extract, extract and fluid extract according to consistency.

Ointment: It was called "ointment" in ancient times. Taking vegetable oil, wax wax, vaseline or animal fat as matrix, and extracting effective components after heating the medicine; Or without heating, grinding into powder, and mixing into semi-solid dosage form for skin or mucosa. Commonly known as "ointment", also known as "ointment". Has the functions of protecting, moistening, smoothing or partially healing. The drugs in some ointments can also be absorbed through the skin to show the systemic therapeutic effect.

Plaster: commonly known as "plaster", it is a kind of near-solid external dosage form with local or systemic therapeutic effect by dissolving or mixing drugs in a suitable matrix and coating them on the pasting material.