The incompatibility between medicine and food is a summary of ancient people's experience and is often used by later generations. Although some of these taboos have yet to be scientifically proved, we should refer to traditional sayings and use them carefully before drawing a conclusion. Generally speaking, antiperspirants avoid cold, spleen and stomach drugs avoid greasy, detumescence and qi-regulating drugs avoid beans, cough and asthma drugs avoid fishy smell, and antidiarrheal drugs avoid melons and fruits. These taboos mainly include: pork anti-ebony, platycodon grandiflorum, coptis chinensis, coriander yellow, lily and atractylodes rhizome; Mutton should avoid Pinellia ternata and Acorus calamus, and avoid copper and cinnabar; Dog meat avoids Phytolacca acinosa and almonds; Carassius auratus avoids magnolia officinalis and Ophiopogon japonicus; Pig blood should avoid rehmannia glutinosa and Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. Pig heart avoids Evodia rutaecarpa; Carp avoid cinnabar; Sparrow meat should avoid atractylodes macrocephala and plums; Onions avoid Changshan, Rehmannia glutinosa, Polygonum Multiflori Radix and honey; Garlic should avoid rehmannia root and Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. Radish avoids rehmannia glutinosa and Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. Vinegar avoids poria cocos; Smilax glabra, clematis root avoid tea, etc. These can be used as reference for clinical application.
The ancients also had some taboos about the compatibility of food and food. Although the reason is not sufficient, it can be used as a reference in the application of medicinal diet. These taboos are: pork should avoid buckwheat, pigeon meat, crucian carp and soybeans; Mutton is jealous of vinegar; Dog meat avoids garlic; Crucian carp avoid mustard and pig liver; Pig blood avoids soybeans; Pig liver should avoid buckwheat, bean paste, carp sausage and fish; Carp avoid dog meat; Turtle meat should avoid amaranth, wine and fruit; Eels avoid dog meat and blood; Sparrow meat avoids pig liver; Duck eggs avoid mulberries and plums; Chicken avoid mustard, glutinous rice and plums; Turtle meat should avoid pork, rabbit, duck, amaranth, eggs and so on. The main application of these taboos is to make people stagnate, catch cold, get sore and get sick.
One of the main raw materials of medicated diet is traditional Chinese medicine. At present, there are more than 500 kinds of traditional Chinese medicines that can be used as raw materials for medicated diet, and about 70 kinds of traditional Chinese medicines that are commonly used for dietotherapy (see Endless Learning (20)-Chinese Medicines to Eat), such as Cordyceps sinensis, Ginseng, Angelica sinensis, Gastrodia elata, Eucommia ulmoides and Lycium barbarum. The compatibility, processing and application of these drugs and food need to follow the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, so that their functions are complementary and coordinated, otherwise mistakes will occur or the curative effect will be affected. Therefore, China traditional medicine has strict taboos on the application of medicated diet.
Contraindications of drug compatibility in medicated diet follow the theory of Chinese Medicine, which generally refers to eighteen opposites and nineteen fears. The specific contents of the "eighteen antis" are: licorice, spurge, seaweed and Daphne genkwa; Radix Aconiti, Fructus Trichosanthis, Rhizoma Pinelliae, Radix Ampelopsis and Rhizoma Bletillae; Veratrum nigrum, Radix Adenophorae, Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae, Radix Scrophulariae, Radix Sophorae Flavescentis, Asari and Radix Paeoniae. The specific contents of "Nineteen Fears" are: sulfur is afraid of nitrate, mercury is afraid of arsenic, wolfsbane is afraid of Lithuania, croton is afraid of morning glory, clove is afraid of turmeric, Sichuan aconite, wild aconite is afraid of rhinoceros horn, tooth nitrate is afraid of triangular prism, official laurel is afraid of halloysitum, and ginseng is afraid of trogopterum dung.
The above incompatibility can be used as a reference for medication, but it is not absolute. In the application of ancient and modern prescriptions, there are also some anti-terrorism uses. For example, the party involved in the use of Trogopterori can tonify the spleen and stomach and relieve pain, and it must be applied under the guidance of an experienced clinician.
Taboo is a content of TCM theory and practice. It mainly includes two categories: First, certain diseases are forbidden to eat certain foods. Such as: liver disease should not be spicy; Heart disease is not salty; Edema avoids salt; Bone diseases are sour and sweet; Gallbladder disease should not be greasy; Cold diseases avoid fruits; Fish and shrimp are taboo for sores; People with dizziness and insomnia should avoid peppers, peppers and tea. The other category refers to certain diseases and certain foods. For example, those with internal heat due to yin deficiency, inflammation due to phlegm-fire and body fluid exhaustion should avoid eating warm, dry and feverish diets such as ginger, pepper and mutton. Avoid eating irritating products such as mustard, garlic, crabs and eggs after exogenous diseases, throat diseases, eye diseases, sores and acne; Anyone who is damp and hot should not eat caramel, pork, cheese cake, rice wine and other foods that help damp and hot; Anyone with moderate cold spleen deficiency, serious illness and postpartum should not eat watermelon, plum, snail, crab, clam and so on. All kinds of blood loss, hemorrhoids, pregnant women and so on do not eat arrows, peppers and other blood-activating diets. During pregnancy, products that break blood and dredge menstruation are highly toxic, emetic and pungent. Some taboos have been proved to be reasonable and some are unrealistic, which can be used as a reference in the application of medicinal diet.