Chinese medicine pays attention to "taboo" in treating diseases. The so-called "taboo" has two meanings: first, whether there is a contradiction between the taste of Chinese medicine and food; The second is whether the food you eat has any adverse reaction to the disease.
At the beginning of a cold, people who take traditional Chinese medicine to relieve exterior symptoms and dispel cold should avoid eating cold and greasy food. If the child is restless, feverish, thirsty and has dry stool, he can eat fruit or drink fruit juice, such as watermelon, pear juice and mung bean soup. In the recovery period of a cold, when the fever goes down, children often overeat and always have enough to eat. At this time, overeating should be avoided, and greasy and thick taste should be avoided, otherwise the illness may be repeated, leading to prolonged recovery time. For example, children with diarrhea must avoid cold and greasy food and have a light diet. In addition, there is a taboo called "hair", which is food that can cause sores, rubella, cough, asthma and so on. , mostly aquatic products, such as hairtail, yellow croaker, carp, crucian carp, crab, shrimp and so on. Among vegetables, mutton, dog meat, chicken, donkey meat, horse meat, leeks, mushrooms, celery. Most of these foods are sweet and dry, and they are easy to get angry after eating.
There are also taboos between food and medicine, and there are so-called eighteen opposites and nineteen fears between Chinese medicine practitioners. The same is true between medicine and food, such as turtle shell taboo amaranth, Schizonepeta taboo fish and crab, asparagus taboo carp, Atractylodes macrocephala taboo peach, plum, garlic, Smilax glabra and honey. After taking tonic, it is forbidden to take radish seeds and cold diet.
The last taboo is to combine everyone's physique. For example, children with spleen and kidney deficiency should avoid cold and sticky food, children with spleen and stomach weakness should avoid spicy and fragrant food, children with heat syndrome should avoid fried food, children with lung disease should avoid spicy food, children with edema should avoid salty food, and children with jaundice should avoid greasy food. Of course, rotten and unclean food, raw meat, wild mushrooms and unripe fruits are taboo.
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