There are many stresses on eating Chinese medicine, which can be summarized as follows:

First, the drug contraindications:

Pay attention to the season of medication: in hot season, you should use less hot drugs; In cold season, cold medicine should be used with caution; In hot season, the dosage of antiperspirant should be light; In cold season, the dosage of antiperspirant should be slightly heavier.

Attention should be paid to the object of medication: if the physically strong or young adults can tolerate more severe drugs, but the elderly and infirm are not easy to tolerate. Women should not use cold drugs, blood-breaking drugs or laxatives during menstrual period; It is not advisable to use drugs for blood-breaking, qi-breaking and severe diarrhea during pregnancy.

Contraindications for pregnancy medication: (1) Drugs with strong toxicity or strong medicinal properties, such as leech, tabanus, morning glory, Euphorbia, Phytolacca acinosa, Daphne genkwa, musk, Rhizoma Sparganii and Rhizoma Curcumae, are prohibited. (2) Carefully use drugs such as peach kernel, safflower, rhubarb, immature bitter orange, aconite, dried ginger, cinnamon, malva seed, etc., which have the functions of breaking qi, breaking blood, smoothing and settling.

Taboos for taking medicine: During taking medicine, you should generally abstain from cold, sticky and irritating foods. If the heat syndrome does not eat spicy and greasy; Cold syndrome does not eat cold; Avoid eating fish and shrimp for skin diseases.

Taboos for compatibility: mainly eighteen opposites: (1) Radix Glycyrrhizae, Radix Euphorbiae, Flos Genkwa and seaweed. (2) Radix Aconiti Fritillariae Cirrhosae, Rhizoma Pinelliae, Fructus Trichosanthis, Radix Ampelopsis and Rhizoma Bletillae. (3) Veratrum nigrum, Radix Codonopsis, Radix Pseudostellariae, Radix Adenophorae, Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae, Radix Scrophulariae, Radix Sophorae Flavescentis, Herba Asari, and Radix Paeoniae.

The so-called "reverse" means that the combination of these drugs can reduce the original efficacy or produce toxicity.

Second, the decocting matters needing attention:

Decocting first: The following medicines need to be decocted first: magnet, ochre, raw keel, raw oyster, concha Haliotidis, mother-of-pearl, dragon teeth, gypsum Fibrosum, mirabilite, pig iron drop, tortoise plastron and turtle shell.

Lower back: The following drugs are generally lower back: mint, perilla leaf, Pogostemon cablin, Elsholtzia Elsholtzia, Herba Artemisiae Scopariae, Herba Artemisiae Annuae, Uncaria Uncaria, Radix et Rhizoma Rhei, Fructus Amomi, Lignum Santali Albi and Aquilariae Resinatum.

Bao Jian: The following medicines need Bao Jian: Semen Plantaginis, Inula Inulae, Indigo Naturalis, Talcum, Clam Powder, Calomelas, Pollen Typhae, Spora Lygodii, Halloysitum Rubra and Kitchen Soil.

Decoct separately: that following medicine need to be decocted separately: ginseng and pilose antler.

Melting: The following drugs need to be melted: Colla Corii Asini, Colla Cornus Cervi, Colla Plastri Testudinis and maltose.

Take orally: The following medicines need to be taken orally: cinnabar, amber, bezoar, musk, mirabilite, Natrii Sulfas, rhinoceros horn noodles, antelope horn noodles, panax pseudo-ginseng, agarwood powder, thunder pill, fumed lime, bamboo juice and ginger juice.

Soak: the following single drugs can be soaked: cinnamon, senna, saffron, boat-fruited Sterculia, Ophiopogon japonicus, Lycium barbarum, lotus plumule, chrysanthemum, etc.

Third, decocting time

Don't open the pot cover frequently when decocting medicine to minimize the loss of volatile components.

Generally, the decoction time of exterior-relieving drugs should be short, and it can be boiled for 10 minute. Generally, tonics should be decocted for a long time, and decocted with slow fire for about 30 minutes to 2 hours after boiling.

One dose of medicine can be decocted for 2-3 times, and each time it is decocted into 200-300ml of liquid medicine. When treating febrile diseases, the liquid medicine can be appropriately more.

In addition, some people are afraid of the bitter taste of traditional Chinese medicine, and add sugar to the soup. This method is not advisable, because every single traditional Chinese medicine contains very complicated components, including tannic acid, alkaloids, flavonoids, coumarin and various minerals such as copper, iron and zinc. The combination of many traditional Chinese medicines is even more complicated. These components are easy to form chelates with sugar molecules in white sugar, which reduces the curative effect, so it is impossible to add sugar to traditional Chinese medicine soup.