Western medicine treatment, traditional Chinese medicine treatment, when the body appears any chronic disease symptoms, for some elderly people, or like to take traditional Chinese medicine conditioning, then what are the taboos of taking traditional Chinese medicine?
Taboo of taking traditional Chinese Medicine
1. Avoid cold
When eating traditional Chinese medicine, pay attention to the cold and raw food. Raw and cold food would have caused greater damage to the gastrointestinal tract. If raw and cold food is used when taking traditional Chinese medicine, it will not only affect the absorption of drug effect, but also cause some gastrointestinal diseases. In particular, the original gastrointestinal bad people, but also pay attention to diet avoid cold.
2. Avoid radish
Experts remind that whether you take traditional Chinese medicine or western medicine, you should try to avoid eating radish during the period of taking medicine, otherwise the drug will be greatly affected. Many people will take a lot of drugs after the disease did not improve, and eating improper also has a great relationship. Especially when eating Chinese medicine, you can't eat radish. Of course, you can take some medicine for gasification phlegm. The reason why we can't eat radish in this period is that radish has the effect of eliminating food and Qi, especially when taking ginseng, Astragalus and other nourishing Chinese medicine.
It has been proved that radish can weaken the tonic effect of ginseng and so on, so it has no therapeutic and tonic effect. Therefore, people who often have the habit of eating traditional Chinese medicine should pay attention to the radish and keep away from it.
3. Avoid spicy
Spicy food will have weak and important properties, and some spicy food materials will react with traditional Chinese medicine, endangering human health. Hot and spicy food is mostly hot and gas consuming, so we should try to avoid this kind of food when we take the traditional Chinese medicine of clearing heat and removing fire, nourishing yin and cooling blood. Some pepper, mutton, garlic and other spicy food, will affect the important drug properties.
4. Avoid greasiness
When drinking traditional Chinese medicine, greasy food should also be avoided. Eating too much greasy food is not conducive to digestion, but also has the disadvantage of long moisture. If you eat greasy food during drinking traditional Chinese medicine, it will affect the absorption of drugs by gastrointestinal tract, thus losing the important medicinal value. Some people with bad spleen and stomach and indigestion should eat less greasy food at ordinary times.
5. Avoid strong tea
Generally, do not drink strong tea when taking traditional Chinese medicine, because the tea contains tannic acid, and the strong tea contains more tannic acid. When taken together with traditional Chinese medicine, it will affect the absorption of effective ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine by human body and reduce the curative effect. Especially when taking "donkey hide gelatin" and "Tremella", do not take them with tea. At the same time, taking them will cause the tannins and alkaloids in tea to precipitate and affect the absorption of human body. If you have the habit of drinking tea at ordinary times, you can drink less green tea, and it's good to drink it after taking medicine for 2-3 hours.