After Chinese medicine has prescribed a prescription, it often tells patients to pay attention to dietary taboos. 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 ginseng, astragalus, Polygonum Multiflori Radix, velvet antler, rehmannia root and other tonics. 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. Taboo refers to the dietary taboo when taking medicine to treat diseases. Chinese medicine attaches great importance to this point, and the people have accumulated a lot of experience. Practice has proved that all kinds of foods have their own properties, which will have a certain impact on the occurrence and development of diseases and the therapeutic effect of drugs. It is reasonable not to eat, but also to be particular. Dietary contraindications when taking traditional Chinese medicine include disease contraindications and medication contraindications. Taboo of disease is to pay attention to taboo according to the nature of disease. For example, hot and humid avoid spicy and greasy fried foods, and cold diseases avoid cold things. Colitis belongs to damp-heat disease and should be selected.