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世界科学技术-中医药现代化 2006
Traditional Chinese Medicine and its "Firepower" and "Proper Roasting
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Abstract:
In a move to regulate the GMP reform of traditional medicine processing industry, a key technique, that can quantitatively measure the "firepower" and "proper roasting time", has to be worked out to meet the needs of Scale medical herb processing and production. The technique shall make the herb preparing process in line with desired purposes and effects. This paper discusses the concept, meaning, and latest development of "firepower" and "proper roasting time", and proposes new techniques for infrared measurement of the intensity of "firepower", and for working out associated scientific parameters. The paper also puts forward new scenarios for measuring "firepower" using other advanced means, such as computer and video techniques.