1, the antidote should not be taken with vinegar
Vinegar is a common cooking ingredients, but also has a certain health effect, eat in moderation is good for health. However, if you are taking antidepressant Chinese medicine, it is best to eat less vinegar.
Helping the positive energy to get rid of the body surface of the evil that is the "relief". The Chinese medicine said the table disease, mostly refers to the early stage of the external infection, fever, headache, no sweat, nasal congestion, cough and other symptoms. Clinically speaking, the Chinese medicines are mostly used for the treatment of wind-cold flu and other illnesses.
Commonly used Chinese medicines include Chai Hu and Lian Qiao; Chinese patent medicines include Yin Qiao Tablet, Sang Ju Cold Granules, Gui Zhi Tang Combination, and some cold and flu preparations. After taking these drugs, there is a certain sweating effect. While sweating, the disease is driven out of the body, and the disease gradually recovers.
Some people believe that vinegar has a bactericidal effect, and eating more when you have a cold is conducive to recovery. However, from the Chinese medicine, vinegar has the effect of astringency, which can promote the contraction of human pores, affecting the role of sweating, weakening the effect of this kind of medicine. Therefore, it is recommended that before and after the service of such drugs 1 ~ 2 hours do not eat vinegar, it is best to wait for the disappearance of the table symptoms, do not need to sweat to relieve the surface, and then eat food containing vinegar. The effect of fumigation with vinegar to treat colds is limited, and it is recommended to drink more warm boiled water when taking the medicine.
However, when taking antidepressants, drinking some hot rice soup as an introduction to the medicine can help with sweating, and also protect the stomach qi, which can help treat illnesses such as wind-cold colds. The dosage of the antidote should be controlled in accordance with the doctor's instructions to avoid excessive sweating and depletion of fluid. People who have been sick for a long time and are weak and have feverish Yin deficiency should also be cautious of using antidepressants, and if you can't tell, it's best to consult your doctor first.
In addition, stomach ulcers and patients with excessive stomach acid should not eat more vinegar during the medication, otherwise it may make the digestive organs secrete more digestive juices and affect the effectiveness of the medicine.
2, winter decoction of Chinese medicine to pay attention to
Winter weather is cold, the temperature changes frequently, it is easy to lead to the weakness of patients or patients with chronic diseases of the recurrence of the disease, many people choose to use Chinese medicine to treat and regulate the body. Unlike Western medicines or proprietary Chinese medicines, Chinese herbs must be decocted before they can be taken.
Whether it's the decoction service provided by hospitals or choosing to do it on your own, there are many factors affecting the effectiveness of the decoction that need to be taken care of. Xu Zhao, a pharmacist in charge of Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, introduced that the number of times of decoction, soaking time, decoction time, the amount of water added and the use of utensils have become the main reasons affecting the effect of decoction.
Chinese herbal medicine soak half an hour is most suitable
Decocted Chinese herbal medicine people know that before decocting the medicine should be soaked in cool water. For the time to soak the medicine, Beijing Chinese Medicine Hospital pharmacist in charge of Xu Zhao said, due to the difference in indoor temperature, the time to soak the medicine in different seasons also have differences. Typically, winter temperatures are low, soaking time is best controlled in about one hour, containing flowers and herbs can be shorter soaking time, solid texture of the drug soaking time can be longer, summer can be a little shorter, maintained at more than half an hour.
If the herbal tablets are not soaked on the fire decoction, the dry medicines are not penetrated, which will lead to starch, mucilage lipids, fats, resins, sugar components in the herbs quickly become hot, the surface produces a paste, which affects the solvent to enter the interior of the herbs, displacing the active ingredient.
"Soaking too long is also not good, the drug soaked in water for a long time, will be a large number of breeding microorganisms, and the antidote class of drugs, due to the short decoction time, will not achieve the purpose of complete inactivation, which will produce some negative effects."
Xu Zhao emphasized that, because the tap water after purification treatment, must contain a certain amount of residual chlorine, with many organic substances in the drug can occur chemical reaction. But the boiling of the cool water residual chlorine has been volatilized, so the decoction to pure water or cool water is good. The amount of water added over the drug 2-3 centimeters can be.
Casserole is the best decoction appliance
Casserole is the best appliance for decoction because of its slow and even heat transfer. Aluminum pots and copper pots should not be used, the most contraindicated use of iron pots, aluminum pots decoction, iron pots in the heavy metals and drugs in some components of the displacement reaction, especially rich in organic acids and other components of the drug, with iron pots decoction, will produce chemical reactions. After using the medicine, some patients may even experience abdominal pain, nausea and other symptoms as a result."
Xu Zhao explained that if you don't have a casserole at home, you can use enameled pots, stainless steel pots, and glassware. Decoctions first with martial arts fire, is what we commonly known as "big fire", and then switch to the fire (small fire) to continue to decoct, if the drug contains starch, such as yam; mucus, sugar components such as raw ground, cooked ground, Wu, Huang Jing, etc., in order to prevent decocting, decocting to be stirred appropriately. Stir every 10 minutes.
Mastering the time of decoction
The time of decoction should be different for the drugs treating different diseases. If it's an antidepressant, most of the sweating and antidepressant drugs for the treatment of exogenous diseases, mostly flowers, leaves, whole grass, etc., its nature is light and dispersing, aromatic flavor, containing more volatile oil components, the decoction time should be shorter, usually the first decoction time is 15-20 minutes, the second decoction time is 10-15 minutes.
If it is a tonic drug, most of them are tonic drugs for tonifying the body's qi, blood, yin and yang, containing a lot of nutrients, so the decoction time is the longest. The first decoction time is 40-60 minutes, the second decoction time is 30-40 minutes.
Generally, the first decoction time is 20-30 minutes and the second decoction time is 20-25 minutes.
Also, avoid using hot water for decoction. Xu Zhao reminded, if directly with hot water decoction, the starch, protein and other ingredients contained in traditional Chinese medicine will be suddenly heat and paste or coagulation, preventing the starch, protein itself leaching, but also impede the leaching of the active ingredients contained in traditional Chinese medicine.
Reasonable consumption of Chinese herbal medicine
The concentration of active ingredients in the first decoction is higher than that in the second decoction. In particular, it contains volatile components and active ingredients are easy to destroy the drug, the second decoction of its components are less, in order to make the efficacy of balanced, a decoction and the second decoction of the drug juice should be combined and taken in separate doses. The dosage of the medication should be in accordance with the doctor's instructions, according to the condition of the broadly divided into divided, tonic and continuous.
"Normally, adults take 150-200 ml once, twice a day. Children take 75-150ml once, twice daily."
Xu Zhao emphasized that medicines for cold conditions should be taken while hot, called hot _ medicines for hot conditions are cooled and taken afterward, called cold _ and general soups are taken warm. The first thing you need to do is to take the medicine after the meal, the second thing you need to do is to take it before you go to bed, and the third thing you need to do is to take it while it's still hot and cover it up, and then take the hot porridge, and then take it all over your body and then sweat it out.
Handling the first decoction and the second decoction
Some herbal medicines will have separately packaged first decoction and second decoction. The purpose of the first decoction is to increase the solubility of the drug or reduce the toxicity of the drug, giving full play to the efficacy of the drug. Xu Zhao introduced, common first decoction of drugs such as aconite, epiphyllum, grasshopper and other toxic drugs; minerals, animal bones such as gypsum, andrographis paniculata, mother-of-pearl and other solid texture drugs. These types of drugs should be decocted for 10-30 minutes before decocting the group of drugs.
The purpose of post-decoction is to reduce the loss of volatile oils or to save heat-sensitive ingredients from decomposition and destruction. Mentha piperita, Semen, Cardamom, Rhubarb, Hooker, etc. are all post-decoction medicines, which are usually added 5-10 minutes before the group of medicines is ready to be decocted.
The therapeutic effect of traditional Chinese medicine in clinical practice is still very good, and there are many patients who take traditional Chinese medicine for treatment when they are sick in life. The efficacy of Chinese medicine treatment is not as fast as Western medicine, but definitely not without effect, patients taking Chinese medicine to cure the disease period, should also pay attention to dietary factors, antidote medicine and vinegar to avoid eating only yo.