1, eating traditional Chinese medicine is taboo.
Avoid catching a cold
This kind of food is mostly cold food, whose main function is to clear away heat and quench thirst, and is suitable for diseases with heat syndrome. However, it is easy to affect gastrointestinal function, and people with deficiency-cold constitution and patients with gastrointestinal diseases should avoid it.
For example, white radish is cold, which has the effects of promoting digestion, resolving phlegm and regulating qi. People with deficiency-cold constitution and gastrointestinal diseases eat it, and the cold gets worse and the gastrointestinal function gets worse. In addition, when taking tonics such as ginseng at the same time, because the medicinal properties of the drugs are biased, the efficacy of the tonics can be reduced or eliminated, so radish and ginseng should not be taken together.
Avoid spicy food
This kind of food is pungent and hot, and has the effect of activating yang and strengthening stomach. If you eat too much, it is easy to produce phlegm fire and dissipate qi and consume blood. Therefore, this diet is only suitable for patients with cold syndrome, not for patients with yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity combined with blood syndrome, fever, hemorrhoids, carbuncle and so on. This kind of food includes onions, garlic, leeks, ginger, wine, peppers and so on.
Hot pepper, if eaten by people with fever, constipation, short and red urine, dry mouth, sore throat, epistaxis, red tongue and other symptoms, will inevitably aggravate the symptoms of "getting angry", thus offsetting the effects of clearing heat, cooling blood and nourishing yin. Therefore, patients with heat syndrome should not eat Chinese medicine plus pepper.
Avoid greasy food.
This kind of food includes animal fat and fried and fried hard food. Greasy is harmful to the spleen and stomach, and those with exogenous diseases, jaundice and diarrhea should not eat. Fried and fried foods are hard, hot and difficult to digest, and those with gastrointestinal diseases and "excessive internal heat" are forbidden to eat.
Hair repellent
This kind of food is the product of wind-induced phlegm to help fire, and its "hair" varies with the degree of food choice of diseases. This kind of food includes mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, bamboo shoots, mustard greens, pumpkins, pheasants, pig's head meat, female pork and so on.
For example, patients with hyperactivity of liver yang and endogenous liver wind should avoid pheasants and pig's head meat; Patients with skin diseases such as furuncle, furuncle, sore and carbuncle should avoid eating mushrooms, bamboo shoots, pheasants, pig's head meat and female pork, otherwise it will accelerate redness and pus; People with gastrointestinal diseases are forbidden to eat pumpkin, because pumpkin contains sugar. Eating too much will produce more acid and stimulate the gastrointestinal tract. From this point of view, "hair" can be said to have the meaning of promoting the deterioration of the disease to a large extent.
Avoid fishy smell
Most of these foods are salty and contain foreign protein, which is easy to cause allergic reactions. Eating too much is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach and induce diseases. Therefore, people with spleen and stomach diseases should not eat too much, especially those with allergies.
These foods include yellow croaker, carp, hairtail, mussel, shrimp and crab. Carp, sardines, catfish, yellow croaker, crab and yellow snail are the most likely to cause allergies. Note that fishy food is also a hair product.
Avoid acidity
Too much acid will irritate the stomach, so patients with hyperacidity will have gastrointestinal ulcers quickly. Astringent, mostly containing tannins. For example, tea contains tannin, while strong tea has a higher content. When taken together with Chinese herbal medicine, it can combine with some protein, alkaloids and heavy metal salts in Chinese herbal medicine to produce precipitation, which affects the absorption of effective components of the medicine and also affects the absorption of nutrients such as protein. Therefore, when taking Chinese herbal medicine, it is generally not appropriate to take it with strong tea.
2. Precautions for soaking feet in traditional Chinese medicine
(1) The foot soaking time should not be too long.
First of all, we should pay attention not to soak our feet for too long, at most half an hour, otherwise the local blood circulation will be too fast for a long time, which will cause relative ischemia in other parts of the body, and the elderly may faint due to insufficient blood supply to the brain. Secondly, we should pay attention to soaking feet within half an hour after meals, which will affect the blood supply to the stomach, and in the long run, it will make the elderly malnourished.
(2) You can't sleep immediately after soaking your feet.
Rub your feet when your feet are hot, and wear socks to keep warm in time. It is best to go to bed after the whole body heat gradually decreases. It is best for the elderly to soak their feet in a deep wooden bucket with a large bottom area, so that they can lay their feet comfortably flat and let the water soak all the way to their calves. The water temperature is about 40 degrees Celsius, so water should be heated at any time.
(3) Soaking feet with Chinese medicine is more effective.
At the same time of soaking feet in hot water, if Chinese medicine can be added to hot water, it can also play a multiplier role in physical fitness and health care for some elderly patients with chronic diseases.
Traditional Chinese medicine foot bath must not use metal and plastic pots, otherwise the effective components of the liquid medicine will lose part. When the skin is broken or cut, stop soaking the medicine (except in the case of broken skin and chapped skin). Traditional Chinese medicine foot bath can only play the role of adjuvant therapy, and elderly friends should never regard it as a method of treating diseases, so as not to delay the illness.