The Thermos Method Instead of Decoction
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
- An easy way for you or your patients to make a formula. It is simpler than decocting it and works well. The herbs should be broken into small pieces or coarsely powdered, but after that, the rest is easy.
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Hey Lorraine! Great video. I’ve recently been having patients pressure cook herbs for external application. For example Instant pot. Have you tried this? If so, any insights you have here, based on all your processing experience 🙂Thank you!
Yeah, I use the instant pot to cook herbs sometimes. Not as good for highly aromatic herbs or delicate herbs because the the heat and pressure, but very useful for most decoctions. Do you have a specific question?
Yes! I can usually get two uses of herbs when cooked on stove top. For pressure cooker, I am assuming only one use is best? For herbs like Bo he, Jing jie, Jin yin hua - I do include these in formulas with pressure cooker. I don’t want to over complicate the process (for compliance) do you have any sense of how much of a detriment this is to volatile compounds / suggestions on how to handle. Also, do you think pressure cooker is more potent than stove top? This is why I started using it in the first place. Thank you!!
In the pressure cooker, the liquid doesn't get cooked down, so after soaking the herbs, add in the amount of liquid you want to end up with. If you would cook it twice on the stovetop, add enough liquid for two cookings, It is easier to explain with an example. Let's say you want to cook herbs on the stovetop and so you add two cups of water and cook it down to 1.5 cups. Then you cook it a second time to get another 1.5 cups. In this case, after soaking the herbs (because they absorb water), have three cups of water in the pressure cooker, but only cook it once. I hope that is clear.
I don't know what to say about the delicate herbs. You can either over-cook them in the pressure cooker, or add them in to steep after the pressure is down enough to open it. Neither solution is probably ideal.
One thought... you could add the delicate herbs in after cooking in granule form. Not saying I love this idea, but it might be worth an experiment.
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