Tea will decompose medicinal properties, and tannic acid contained in tea can easily react with alkaloids in the stomach to form insoluble precipitate, which makes the medicine unable to be absorbed by the human body and play its medicinal role.

The active components of many traditional Chinese medicines are alkaloids, such as ephedra containing ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, coptis chinensis and phellodendron chinensis containing berberine, and Stemona chinensis containing Stemona. Other active components such as corydalis yanhusuo, Cirsium japonicum, Cyathula cyathulae and Datura stramonium are mainly alkaloids.

Therefore, drugs containing these ingredients will precipitate when taken with tea, which will affect the efficacy. In addition, tannic acid in tea has astringent effect, which will hinder the absorption of nutrients such as protein. Therefore, drinking tea, especially strong tea, will also reduce the efficacy when taking nourishing drugs such as Dangshen, Astragalus and Yam.

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Matters needing attention when taking medicine

1, it is more appropriate to simply swallow a drug with clear water. But in some cases, it may be because there is no clear water, or it may be because there are other diseases in the body, and other drugs should be taken at the same time.

2, oral drugs should be taken with water, and avoid drinking tea, coffee, juice or milk. In addition, you should avoid drinking any alcoholic beverages during taking medicine, because alcohol will aggravate dizziness and drowsiness caused by some drugs, and even affect the metabolic process of drugs in the body.

3. Some stomach medicines are used to neutralize gastric acid, and the effect is related to the surface area of the medicine. Stomach-biting drugs can increase the contact surface of drugs and make the effect better, but not every stomach drug needs to be chewed and swallowed. On the contrary, some drugs must be swallowed whole, such as long-acting drugs and drugs coated with enteric coating. Biting medicine will destroy the special surface layer, affect the curative effect, and may also aggravate the side effects.

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