When using traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine often tells patients to pay attention to dietary taboos after prescribing the medicine. Because Chinese medicine is eaten with some foods with opposite nature, it often weakens the curative effect of the medicine and even produces toxicity. The following are some taboos for taking traditional Chinese medicine: 1. Take tonics such as ginseng, astragalus, Polygonum Multiflori Radix, velvet antler and rehmannia root. And avoid drinking tea and alkaline foods such as fruits and kelp. 2. Avoid eating pork when taking Rhizoma Coptidis and Radix Glycyrrhizae. 3. Avoid tea when taking seven poria cocos and clematis root. 4. Avoid eating fish, crabs and turtles when taking mint. 5. Avoid eating raw onions and garlic when taking Changshan and honey. 6. Take turtle shells and avoid eating amaranth. 7. Take Atractylodes macrocephala and avoid eating peaches, plums and apricots. 8. Don't eat tofu when eating earthworms. 9. Avoid hot foods such as onions, ginger, garlic, dog meat, mutton and donkey meat when taking heat-clearing traditional Chinese medicine. 10. People suffering from heat toxin such as furuncle, carbuncle, swelling and furuncle should avoid fishy food such as fish, shrimp and crab. 1, eat ginseng and avoid radish and garlic: American ginseng and ginseng are common tonics, and radish has the function of promoting digestion. Taking radish at the same time will dissolve the medicinal properties of ginseng. Similarly, when taking other tonic drugs, you should not eat foods that promote digestion such as radish and garlic within one hour before and after. 2, eat Shuanghuanglian avoid garlic: Shuanghuanglian is a commonly used medicine for clearing away heat and toxic materials and treating exogenous wind and heat, which is cool and garlic is hot. If you eat garlic while taking Shuanghuanglian, it will reduce the efficacy. 3, eat Banlangen avoid cold drinks: Banlangen is the common people's home standing medicine. In summer, people drink too many cold drinks, but they don't know that these two things can't be eaten at the same time. Because Banlangen is cold, if you drink cold drinks before and after taking it, it will get colder and colder, and your stomach will have diarrhea if you can't stand it. Similarly, cold foods such as mung beans, bananas and cucumbers should not be eaten with Banlangen. 4, taking antiperspirant avoid vinegar and cold food: vinegar and cold food have a convergence effect, if you take antiperspirant at the same time, it will offset the efficacy. 5. Avoid eating fish, shrimp and goose meat during taking medicine for skin diseases: Fish, shrimp and seafood are rich in protein, and goose meat belongs to crude fiber meat. People with allergies are easily allergic to these two substances, so avoid eating them. There is a principle to avoid eating Chinese medicine. When taking warm or cold Chinese medicine, try to eat neutral and peaceful food. Because the nature and taste of traditional Chinese medicine and food are opposite, it will weaken the drug effect offset and fail to achieve the due curative effect; In some cases, drugs and food have the same nature and taste, which will also increase the strength of drugs to the human body, beyond the range that the human body can bear, which is counterproductive. Generally speaking, it is not advisable to eat hot foods such as onions, garlic, peppers, mutton and dog meat when taking traditional Chinese medicine for clearing fire. When taking traditional Chinese medicine to treat "cold syndrome", you should avoid eating cold food. Some drugs will have adverse reactions when taken with food. There are a lot of records in ancient literature: licorice, coptis, platycodon grandiflorum and ebony avoid pork; Mint avoids turtle meat; Poria cocos is jealous of vinegar; Turtles avoid amaranth; Chicken avoids eel; Honey avoids raw onions; Asparagus avoids carp; Schizonepeta avoids fish, crabs, puffer fish and donkey meat; Atractylodes macrocephala avoids garlic, peaches and plums.