All the friends who have drunk traditional Chinese medicine know that there are many things to pay attention to in drinking traditional Chinese medicine, not to mention that there are drug introducers. How to soak, how to decoct and when to drink the medicine are all different. Many people are very vague about the diet taboo of drinking traditional Chinese medicine. Don't worry. This article may help you.
Taboo is a common sense of health, especially when taking medicine. As the saying goes, it is not taboo to take medicine, which will damage the doctor's hands. It can be seen that taboo is very important, which can maximize the efficacy and effectively cure the disease. Here's the common sense of taboo to pay attention to when taking traditional Chinese medicine.
When is the best time to drink traditional Chinese Medicine
When drinking traditional Chinese medicine, choosing the right time of taking medicine will get the best therapeutic effect, especially for traditional Chinese medicine. The time of taking traditional Chinese medicine should be determined according to the condition and the nature of the medicine. Most drugs should be taken half an hour to an hour after meals.
When Chinese medicine is used in combination with traditional Chinese medicine, we should pay attention to "four Qi and five flavors". According to the cold, hot, warm and cool of the drug, we should refer to the five flavors of spicy, sweet, sour, bitter and salty to make up the prescription. When taking medicine on an empty stomach, cold drugs or five drugs with heavy weight may cause certain damage to the gastric mucosa.
Different types of traditional Chinese medicine take different time. For liver, kidney and intestinal diseases, it is better to take medicine before meals; for vertigo and throat diseases, it is better to take medicine after meals; for diarrhea, tonic and insect repellent drugs, it is better to take them on an empty stomach; for sedative drugs, it is better to take them before going to bed.
This is based on the different conditions of the disease and the characteristics of the drug action, the general requirements for the time of taking medicine. During medication, the doctor will adjust the medication according to the changes of the patient's body. The prescription of medication will not be limited to a certain kind of medicine. In addition, the long-term medication of the patient will inevitably cause damage to the gastric mucosa. Therefore, it is recommended that the person who drinks the traditional Chinese medicine decoction for a long time take the medicine within 30-60 minutes after meals to reduce the direct stimulation of the medicine to the gastric mucosa.
Time and diet taboo of drinking traditional Chinese Medicine
We should pay more attention to many details when taking the medicine, such as the time of taking the medicine, the diet after taking the medicine and so on, which will affect the effectiveness of the medicine. So when is the best time to drink medicine? Which dietary taboos should we pay attention to? To learn more about it.
1、 It is advisable to eat less beans, meat, raw and cold food and other foods that are not easy to digest, so as not to increase the burden on the patients' intestines and stomach and affect the recovery of the disease. Patients with deficiency of spleen and stomach should eat less of this kind of food. Hot diseases should fast or eat less alcohol, spicy, fish, meat and so on. Because of the hot nature of alcohol and spicy food, fish and meat food have the functions of greasy stagnation, heat generation and phlegm generation, which can promote pathogenic factors and aggravate the disease after eating. It is better to eat less cold and sour food when taking the medicine to relieve the symptoms and rash, because the cold and sour taste have astringent effects, which will affect the efficacy of the medicine to relieve the symptoms and rash; When taking warm tonics, you should drink less tea, because the tea is cold, it can reduce the effect of warming the spleen and stomach; before and after taking sedative and hypnotic drugs, you should not drink tea, let alone use tea to deliver these drugs.
2、 When taking the medicine of clearing heat, cooling blood and nourishing Yin, do not eat spicy food. For the patients with heat syndrome (such as constipation, oliguria, dry mouth, dry lips, sore throat, dry tongue, peeling moss and so on), eating spicy food will aggravate the heat image, so as to offset the effects of heat clearing and blood cooling drugs (such as gypsum, honeysuckle, forsythia, gardenia, Shengdi, dandelion, etc.) and Yin nourishing drugs (such as Dendrobium, ginseng, Ophiopogon japonicus, Anemarrhena, Xuanshen, etc.).
3、 Take licorice, Xanthium, black plum, Platycodon grandiflorum, Coptis and Evodia to avoid eating pork; take rehmannia and Shouwu to avoid eating onion, garlic and radish; take Danshen and poria to avoid eating vinegar; take Atractylodes and Atractylodes to avoid eating peach and plum; take smira to avoid drinking tea; take Jingjie to avoid eating seafood such as shrimp and crab; take Houpu to avoid eating fried beans; Taking ginseng and dangshen instead of eating radish, because radish has the functions of digestion, phlegm resolving and ventilation, while ginseng and dangshen are tonic drugs, the effect will be offset once the tonic is eliminated.
4、 Those who suffer from dry mouth, restless heat, constipation, high blood pressure, restlessness, tachycardia, and hyperthyroidism should generally avoid eating ginger, garlic, leek, shallot, mutton, dog meat, pepper and other high-fat, fragrant and spicy products; Those who suffer from deficiency of spleen and stomach, cold hands and feet, thin stools, low blood pressure and bradycardia should avoid watermelon, winter melon, radish, mung bean, raw pear, sugarcane, honey, turtle and other cold, greasy and slimy products; Those who are afraid of cold and fever, headache and upset, constipation, yellow urine, ulceration of tongue and mouth, boils and boils, should not eat bamboo shoots, bean sprouts, loofah, leek, eggplant, shrimp, crab, snail, mussel and other foods.
Conclusion: according to the time and diet taboos of drinking Chinese medicine introduced by the above editor, we know that when we are sick to eat Chinese medicine, we must pay attention to the above taboos. Even if you encounter a favorite food, you should bear it. If you eat food you shouldn't eat during your medication, it is likely to threaten your health.