Taboos when drinking traditional Chinese Medicine

When eating traditional Chinese medicine, doctors always tell us to avoid spicy, cold, fishy and so on But why should we have these taboos? Besides these, what else can we not eat? 1 Avoid spicy food Spicy food is hot and hot It is easy to use gas and fire It can hurt Yin and move blood If you take Chinese medicine such as clearing away heat and removing fire, nourishing yin and cooling blood, nourishing yin and permeating heat, or during the treatment of heat venereal diseases such as carbuncle, sore and toxin, you should avoid spicy food Such as onion, ginger, garlic, pepper, pepper, mutton, dog meat and other spicy hot food, if eaten, it will counteract the efficacy, and even promote inflammation Second, avoid raw and cold food, raw and cold food is more cold, cold congealing, causing blood stasis and pain Raw and cold food is easy to stimulate the gastrointestinal tract and affect the absorption of drugs by the gastrointestinal tract Therefore, in the treatment of "cold syndrome", take traditional Chinese medicine, such as warming yang and activating the pulse, dispelling cold and eliminating dampness, or invigorating the spleen and stomach, and do not eat raw and cold products 3 The traditional Chinese medicine for avoiding fishy smell food generally has fragrant smell, especially for the aromatic humidification and the aromatic natural gas This kind of medicine contains a large amount of volatile oil, which plays a therapeutic role The aromatic substances and fishy smell cannot be compatible If you don't avoid fishy smell when taking traditional Chinese medicine, it often affects the efficacy Such as fish, shrimp, seafood, beef and mutton For those patients with allergic dermatitis, such as allergic asthma, allergic rhinitis, sore boils, eczema, urticaria, etc., it is necessary to avoid the food with fishy smell during the period of taking traditional Chinese medicine, and also to eat less the hair with fishy smell, such as chicken, sheep, pig head meat, crab, goose and so on Because this kind of food contains heterogenous protein, some patients are particularly sensitive and easily allergic, thus aggravating the disease IV avoid drinking strong tea because the tea contains tannic acid and more in the strong tea Taking it with the traditional Chinese medicine will affect the absorption of the effective ingredients in the traditional Chinese medicine, and the efficacy will be greatly reduced Especially when taking "donkey hide gelatin" and "Tremella", it is forbidden to take them together with tea At the same time, taking them will cause precipitation of tannic acid and alkaloids in tea, which will affect the absorption of human body 5 It is forbidden to eat radish raw when taking traditional Chinese medicine (except for Qi Qi Qi medicine), because radish has the effect of relieving food and breaking Qi, especially when taking tonic Chinese medicine such as ginseng and astragalus, eating radish will make ginseng lose the tonic effect, reduce the efficacy and fail to achieve the treatment purpose 6 Avoid greasy food Greasy food is sticky and greasy It can help dampness to produce phlegm, smooth intestines and stagnate Qi It is not easy to digest and absorb Moreover, the mixture of greasy food and medicine can hinder the gastrointestinal absorption of effective ingredients of drugs, thus reducing the curative effect During the period of taking traditional Chinese medicine, if you eat meat and greasy food, it will inevitably affect the absorption of traditional Chinese medicine Therefore, for patients with heavy phlegm, weak spleen and stomach, dyspepsia, hypertension, coronary heart disease, hyperlipidemia and obesity, you should avoid animal fat and other greasy things After reading the above things that need to be taboo, do you have an understanding of taking traditional Chinese medicine? So please do it when taking traditional Chinese medicine, otherwise, it's not cost-effective to spend money.