Drinking taboos for Chinese medicine

Although in today's society, there are many types of western medicine, many diseases need to be treated with Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine is not so commonly used as Western medicine. What are the taboos for drinking Chinese medicine?

Drink Chinese medicine notes:

1 Can not use tea or coffee during the period of taking traditional Chinese medicine, tannic acid in tea, and caffeine in coffee will affect the body's absorption of active ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine and reduce efficacy.

2 Do not eat radish when taking traditional Chinese medicines, because radish has functions such as digestion and breakage, especially when taking ginseng and other nourishing herbs, radishes will not only reduce the effect of tonic, but also may affect the tonic effect of the medicine. .

When taking 3 Chinese herbal decoctions and pills, you should not eat raw, cold, greasy food. Because raw and cold foods not only stimulate the gastrointestinal tract, but also affect the gastrointestinal absorption of drugs, greasy foods are not easy to digest and absorb, and greasy foods and drugs mixed, can better hinder the gastrointestinal absorption of active pharmaceutical ingredients, thereby reducing efficacy .

4. Patients with digestive diseases such as hepatitis and chronic gastroenteritis should not eat garlic when taking spleen, stomach and stomach medicine.

5 When taking soup with Jianpi and Wenwei, garlic should not be eaten. Allicin contained in garlic will hinder the active ingredients in Chinese medicine from exerting therapeutic effects.

In addition, patients suffering from sores and skin should not eat fish, shrimps, crabs, lamb, pork and other foods. Patients with edema should not eat salt. Hepatitis patients should not eat spicy, spicy or greasy food. Drink taboos of traditional Chinese medicine, although now many people do not drink Chinese medicine, but some of the conditions still need to drink the effect of Chinese medicine treatment is the best. These are some of the taboos of drinking Chinese medicine. When you drink Chinese medicine, you must remember the above taboos.