四、加工与贮藏药材采集后,要及时用水冲洗对含淀粉或粘液多的药材,多用开水煮烫或锅蒸后,再干燥。如元胡、天麻、百合及马齿苋等。对于干后,坚硬、粗大的药材,可趁新鲜时切成片,然后干燥。如穿地龙及狼毒等。对于皮类的药材,可趁新鲜时,将老皮和栓皮剥去,然后干燥,如黄柏等。“棒打苍术,火燎升麻,剥皮桔梗,抽心远志”等,是广大群众对药材加工的经验。药材采集后,除了鲜用以外,一般需要很快干燥,以保证生药质量,也是药物贮藏前的有效措施。因收药物性质不同,常用的干燥方法有如下几种: 1、日光干燥:是最常用的药材干燥 Fourth, processing and storage After the collection of herbs, it is necessary to rinse with water in time to the starchy or mucus more than the medicinal materials, and more boiled hot or pot steamed, and then dried. Such as Yuan Hu, Gastrodia, Lily and Purslane. For dried, hard, thick herbs, can be cut into pieces when fresh, and then dry. Such as wearing a dragon and wolf poison. For leathery herbs, when it is fresh, peel old skin and cork, then dry, such as cork and so on. “But to fight the skill, fire cockroach, peeled bellflower, pumping the heart of Polygala” and so on, is the vast number of people experience in the processing of medicinal herbs. After the herbs are collected, in addition to being freshly used, they generally need to be dried quickly to ensure the quality of crude drugs, which is also an effective measure before the drug is stored. Due to the different nature of the drugs, the commonly used drying methods are as follows: 1. Sunlight drying: the most commonly used herbs drying