What should you pay attention to when using Chinese medicine to regulate your body?

　　Nowadays, more and more friends are using Chinese medicine to regulate their bodies, but many friends don’t know that there are many taboos when drinking Chinese medicine. Today, the editor has compiled for everyone the precautions that should not be taken when drinking Chinese medicine. Come and learn about it.

　　Pay attention to these taboos when drinking traditional Chinese medicine to regulate your body

　　1. Take licorice, cocklebur, black plum, platycodon, coptis, and evodia and avoid eating pork.

　　2. Take Rehmannia glutinosa and Shouwu and avoid eating onions, garlic and radishes.

　　3. Avoid eating vinegar when taking Salvia miltiorrhiza and Poria cocos.

　　4. Take Atractylodes macrocephala and Atractylodes macrocephala and avoid eating peaches and plums.

　　5. Taking Smilax Poria will prevent gentlemen from drinking tea.

　　6. Do not eat seafood such as shrimps and crabs while taking Nepeta.

　　7. Take Magnolia officinalis and avoid eating fried beans.

　　8. Do not eat radish when taking ginseng and Codonopsis pilosula, because radish has the functions of digestion, phlegm, and ventilation, while ginseng and Codonopsis pilosula are tonics, so the effects will be offset by supplementation and elimination.

　　9. When drinking traditional Chinese medicine, choose the correct time to take the medicine to get the best therapeutic effect, especially for traditional Chinese medicine. The time for 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 to reduce the direct irritation of the drugs to the gastric mucosa.

　　10. When using traditional Chinese medicine, pay attention to the four qi and five flavors, and formulate prescriptions based on the cold, hot, warm, and cool properties of the medicine, and refer to the pungent, sweet, sour, bitter, and salty flavors. When taking medicine on an empty stomach, cold and cooling medicines or medicines with strong five flavors may cause certain damage to the gastric mucosa.

　　11. Different types of traditional Chinese medicine have different taking times. For liver, kidney, and intestinal diseases, it is advisable to take medicine before meals. People with dizziness and throat problems should take the medicine after meals. Laxatives, tonics, and anthelmintics should be taken on an empty stomach. Sedatives should be taken before going to bed.

　　12. It is advisable to eat less beans, meat, raw and cold foods and other foods that are not easy to digest, so as not to increase the gastrointestinal burden of the patient and affect the recovery of the disease. Patients with spleen and stomach deficiency should eat less of this type of food.

　　13. For thermal diseases, you should fast or eat less alcohol, spicy food, fish, meat, etc. Because alcohol and spicy food are hot in nature, fish and meat food have the effects of greasiness, heat generation, and phlegm production. After eating, they will promote the disease and make the condition worse.

　　14. When taking medicines for relieving the surface and resolving rash, it is advisable to eat less raw, cold and sour foods, because cold and sour foods have astringent effects, which will affect the efficacy of the medicine for relieving the surface and resolving rash.

　　15. You should drink less tea when taking warming tonics, because tea is cool in nature and can reduce the effectiveness of warming and tonics for the spleen and stomach. It is not advisable to drink tea before and after taking sedative and hypnotic drugs, let alone take these drugs with tea.

　　16. When taking heat-clearing, cooling-blood and yin-nourishing medicines, it is not advisable to eat spicy food. Eating spicy food will aggravate the heat symptoms and offset the effect of heat-clearing and blood-clearing medicines (such as gypsum, silver flower, forsythia, gardenia, rehmannia, paeonol, etc.)

　　17. People who are taking traditional Chinese medicine also need to avoid all kinds of spicy food. Otherwise, it will not only weaken the properties of the medicine, but also react with the traditional Chinese medicine, thus seriously endangering human health. Moreover, our country’s traditional Chinese medicine points out that hot and spicy foods are warm in nature and consume gas and trigger fire. Therefore, you should try to avoid such foods when taking traditional Chinese medicines such as clearing away heat and detoxifying, nourishing yin and increasing fluids, cooling blood and nourishing yin. Or you should try to avoid eating spicy foods during the treatment of carbuncle ulcers. People who suffer from bitter mouth and dry throat, irritability, constipation, elevated blood pressure, nervousness, tachycardia, and hyperthyroidism should generally avoid eating high-fat, dry, spicy products such as ginger, garlic, leeks, green onions, mutton, dog meat, and pepper.

　　18. While taking Chinese medicine, you should also try to avoid eating all kinds of raw and cold foods. Raw and cold foods are often cold in nature and are very difficult to digest after eating. Moreover, raw and cold foods can also stimulate the gastrointestinal tract after consumption. In this case, if Chinese medicine is taken immediately, it will seriously irritate the gastrointestinal tract, thus affecting the gastrointestinal absorption of the drug. People with symptoms of cold spleen and stomach, cold hands and feet, loose stools, low blood pressure, and bradycardia should avoid watermelon, winter melon, radish, mung beans, raw pears, sugar cane, honey, turtle, and other raw, cold, greasy, and slimy foods.

　　19. Those who are afraid of colds and fever, have headaches and upsets, constipation, yellow urine, ulcers on the mouth and tongue, boils and tumors, should not eat bamboo shoots, bean sprouts, loofah, leeks, eggplants, shrimps, crabs, snails, clams and other foods.

　　20. All kinds of greasy food should also be avoided while taking traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine points out that greasy food is sticky and greasy, and it can also help dampness and phlegm, smooth the intestines and stagnate qi. After consumption, it will mix with the medicine and hinder the gastrointestinal absorption of the active ingredients of the medicine, thus reducing the efficacy. In particular, some patients suffering from spleen and stomach weakness, indigestion, high blood pressure, coronary heart disease and other diseases should eat less of these foods in their daily lives.

　　21. Traditional Chinese medicines generally have aromatic odors, especially aromatic dampness-reducing and aromatic qi-regulating medicines, which contain a large amount of volatile oils, which rely on their therapeutic effects. Such aromatic substances are most incompatible with fishy smells. If you do not avoid the smell of fishy smell when taking traditional Chinese medicine, the efficacy of the medicine will often be affected. Such as the fishy smell of fish, shrimp and seafood, and the smell of beef and sheep.

　　22. Generally, do not drink strong tea when taking Chinese medicine, because tea contains tannic acid, and strong tea contains more tannic acid. When taken together with Chinese medicine, it will affect the body's absorption of the active ingredients in the Chinese medicine and reduce the efficacy. Especially when taking "Donkey-hide gelatin" and "Tremella fuciformis", avoid taking them with tea. Taking them at the same time will cause the precipitation of tannic acid, alkaloids, etc. in the tea, affecting the body's absorption. If you have the habit of drinking tea, you can drink less green tea, and it is best to drink it 2 to 3 hours after taking the medicine.

　　23. It is best not to drink coffee, milk or soy milk about one hour before and after drinking traditional Chinese medicine to avoid chemical reactions between the traditional Chinese medicine ingredients and the tannins and proteins in the tea, which will affect the curative effect.