First, can I eat leeks during drinking Chinese medicine?
Leek is a spicy food, so it is best not to eat it when taking Chinese medicine.
Mala Tang is warm and consumes pneumatic fire. If you take traditional Chinese medicines such as clearing away heat and toxic materials, nourishing yin and promoting fluid production, cooling blood and nourishing yin, or during the treatment of carbuncle, ulcer and toxic heat, you must avoid spicy food. What are the taboo foods for eating traditional Chinese medicine? Such as onions, garlic, peppers, mutton, dog meat and other spicy products, if eaten, will offset the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine, and some will also contribute to inflammation, yin injury and blood circulation (bleeding).
Practice has proved that taboo is reasonable. Because the common foods we usually eat, such as fish, meat, chicken, eggs, vegetables, fruits, sauces, vinegar, tea, wine, etc., also have their own properties, which have a certain impact on the occurrence, development and therapeutic effect of drugs. For example, Zhang Xingyun's book "Diet Treatment and Disease Differentiation" in the Qing Dynasty said: "The patient's diet can nourish the stomach and promote the efficacy of drugs, so the diet should be the help of the drug bait, but it should not be the enemy of the drug bait."
When taking traditional Chinese medicine for clearing fire, it is not advisable to eat hot foods such as onions, garlic, peppers, mutton and dog meat; When taking traditional Chinese medicine to treat "cold syndrome", you should avoid eating cold food. There are also 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. This shows that you should not eat certain foods when taking certain drugs. If you eat taboo food, the curative effect will be unsatisfactory or counterproductive.
Second, the taboo of taking traditional Chinese medicine
Avoid fishy smell
Traditional Chinese medicine generally has an aromatic smell, especially aromatic drugs for eliminating dampness and regulating qi, which contain a lot of volatile oil and play a therapeutic role. This aromatic substance is the most incompatible with the fishy smell. If you don't avoid the fishy smell when eating traditional Chinese medicine, it will often affect the curative effect. What are the taboo foods for eating traditional Chinese medicine? For example, fish, shrimp and seafood smell fishy, and cattle and sheep smell bad. For allergic dermatitis patients such as allergic asthma, allergic rhinitis, boils, eczema, urticaria, etc., we must avoid eating fishy things and eat less fishy and irritating hair such as chicken, sheep, pig's head, crab and goose during taking traditional Chinese medicine. Because this kind of food contains foreign protein, some patients are particularly sensitive and allergic, thus aggravating their illness.
Avoid greasy food.
Greasy food is sticky, which helps to dry dampness and produce phlegm, moisten intestines and regulate qi, and is not easy to digest and absorb. Moreover, the mixture of greasy food and drugs will hinder the absorption of effective ingredients in gastrointestinal tract, thus reducing the curative effect. Eating meat and greasy food will inevitably affect the absorption of Chinese medicine during taking Chinese medicine. Therefore, patients with severe phlegm dampness, spleen and stomach weakness, dyspepsia, hypertension, coronary heart disease, hyperlipidemia, high blood viscosity and obesity should avoid eating greasy things such as animal fat.
Avoid strong tea
Generally, don't drink strong tea when taking traditional Chinese medicine, because tea contains tannic acid, and strong tea contains more tannic acid. Taking it with traditional Chinese medicine will affect the absorption of effective components in traditional Chinese medicine and reduce the curative effect. Especially when taking "Ejiao" and "Tremella", avoid taking it with tea, and taking it at the same time will precipitate tannic acid and alkaloids in tea, which will affect human absorption. If you have the habit of drinking tea, you can drink less green tea, preferably after taking the medicine for 2 ~ 3 hours.
Avoid catching a cold
Cold food is cold and difficult to digest. Cold food is also easy to stimulate the gastrointestinal tract and affect the absorption of drugs in the gastrointestinal tract. What are the taboo foods for eating traditional Chinese medicine? Therefore, in the treatment of "cold syndrome", taking traditional Chinese medicines such as warming meridians and dredging collaterals, dispelling cold and eliminating dampness, or strengthening the spleen and warming the stomach, we must avoid eating cold food.
Third, keep in mind the precautions of fifteen kinds of Chinese medicines.
Some patients think that they have become doctors after a long illness, and they know all about their own diseases, so they take medicine according to the prescription and use Chinese medicine according to the law. Some patients are obsessed with some traditional Chinese medicine remedies, leading to poisoning, while some units and sales companies selling traditional Chinese medicine ignore the side effects of traditional Chinese medicine and sell them to consumers in order to win huge profits, resulting in adverse reactions.
1. Some traditional Chinese medicines contain toxic components, such as aconitine in aconite, which has therapeutic effect in small doses, and poisoning can be caused by excessive dosage or improper use.
2. Some traditional Chinese medicines do not contain toxic components, but excessive use can also cause poisoning. For example, excessive use of cinnamon can cause hematuria.
3. Improper medication based on syndrome differentiation, such as taking asarum and cinnamon to patients with hyperactivity of liver yang, is equivalent to adding fuel to the fire.
4. Improper varieties of traditional Chinese medicine. For example, mistletoe is non-toxic, but mistletoe parasitic on toxic plants will contain corresponding toxic components.
5. Some medicinal materials are unprocessed or improperly processed. For example, processed Pinellia ternata is not toxic, while raw Pinellia ternata is toxic.
6, Chinese medicine decoction is not correct, Chinese medicine believes that the decoction time is not enough, causing toxic reactions.
7. It is very dangerous to take Chinese medicine by mistake. If cortex acanthopanacis radicis is used as cortex acanthopanacis radicis, digitalis-like poisoning will occur.
8, contaminated or deteriorated Chinese medicine.
9. Improper medication, such as traditional Chinese medicine injection used for intramuscular injection and intravenous injection.
10, if the drug is used for too long, if oleander contains cardiac glycoside, digitalis-like accumulation poisoning reaction will occur after long-term use.
1 1. Some traditional Chinese medicines can react with each other. If the two are not compatible properly, it will cause adverse reactions. For example, veratrum should not be used with tonic drugs such as ginseng.
12, there are also compatibility taboos between Chinese and western medicines, such as hawthorn, Schisandra chinensis and ebony. , combined with sulfanilamide can cause hematuria.
13, gender, age and physique differences will all affect the curative effect of traditional Chinese medicine. For example, women are sensitive to many drugs during lactation.
14, the quality of traditional Chinese medicine injection is not good, and it contains harmful substances, impurities and plant protein.
15, external preparation accessories, such as liquor, alcohol, vinegar, etc. Improper use.
Fourth, how to reduce the side effects of taking Chinese medicine?
In Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica, traditional Chinese medicines with toxic and side effects are clearly distinguished from general medicines, and the processing principles of traditional Chinese medicines are pointed out.
When a stomach patient needs to take bitter cold medicine because of other physical diseases, if he does not take good care of his spleen and stomach, his stomach pain may get worse when other diseases are cured. It can be said that this is also a side effect of traditional Chinese medicine.
Although cold medicine can clear away heat, it is easy to hurt yang; Although hot medicine can dispel cold, it consumes yin energy; Attacking poison can dispel evil spirits, but it can hurt righteousness; Nourishing drugs can enhance the body's resistance, but they can love evil. Therefore, on the one hand, we should reduce drug bias by processing, compatibility, reducing dosage and improving medication methods, and at the same time, we should master the contraindications of drugs to ensure drug safety. The eighteen evils and nineteen fears mentioned by traditional Chinese medicine are also related to the prevention of toxic and side effects of traditional Chinese medicine.
Clinically, Chinese medicine pays attention to "holistic conditioning, syndrome differentiation and treatment" and uses drugs such as "monarch, minister, assistant and envoy", which means that people should distinguish individuals when using Chinese medicine, which varies from person to person and from time to time. For example, when gardenia is used, it has the effect of clearing away the fire of triple energizer, but some people may have abdominal pain after taking it, and a few can see diarrhea. Most of these people will relieve themselves after stopping taking the medicine. If you can't stop taking medicine due to illness, you can add traditional Chinese medicine for regulating qi and relieving pain, strengthening spleen and stopping diarrhea or take fried gardenia to eliminate its side effects.
In a word, as long as we use traditional Chinese medicine scientifically and reasonably according to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine and pay attention to processing, processing and compatibility, we can completely reduce or eliminate its side effects.