During taking traditional Chinese medicine, you need to pay attention to taboos. Generally, spicy and irritating food, raw and cold food, greasy and indigestible food and seafood should be avoided. In traditional Chinese medicine, seafood, mutton, beef and so on are all hair products, which will affect the curative effect of traditional Chinese medicine. Especially skin diseases, allergic diseases, exogenous diseases and sores, avoid eating seafood, otherwise it will aggravate the condition.

Seven taboos for eating Chinese medicine:

1. Avoid cold food

During eating Chinese medicine, you should try to avoid eating all kinds of cold food. Chinese medicine points out that raw and cold food is cold and cold, and it is very difficult to digest after eating.

2. Avoid radishes

Experts remind that no matter whether you take traditional Chinese medicine or western medicine, you should try to avoid eating radishes during the medication, otherwise the medicinal properties will be greatly affected. The reason why many people do not get better after taking a lot of drugs is also closely related to improper diet.

3. Avoid spicy food

All kinds of spicy food are also taboo for people who are taking traditional Chinese medicine, otherwise it will not only weaken the medicinal properties, but even react with traditional Chinese medicine, thus seriously endangering human health.

4. Avoid greasy foods

All kinds of greasy foods should also be avoided during taking traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine points out that greasy foods are sticky and greasy, and they also help damp, produce phlegm, and smooth intestines and stagnate qi. After eating, it will be mixed with drugs and hinder the absorption of effective components in the gastrointestinal tract, thus reducing the curative effect.

5. Avoid hair

These foods are all products that can promote wind, produce phlegm and help fire, and their "hair" is also different due to the different degree of food selection of diseases. Such foods include mushrooms, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, mustard greens, pumpkins, pheasants, pig's head meat, and female pork.

Patients with hyperactivity of liver yang and hyperactivity of liver wind should be forbidden to eat pheasant and pig's head. Patients with skin diseases such as furuncle, furuncle, sore and carbuncle should be forbidden to eat mushrooms, bamboo shoots, pheasant, pig's head meat and female pork, otherwise it will accelerate redness and pus; People with gastrointestinal diseases are forbidden to eat pumpkin, because pumpkin contains sugar, and eating more will produce more acid, which will stimulate the gastrointestinal tract.

6. Avoid fishy smell

Generally, traditional Chinese medicines have an aromatic smell, especially aromatic dampness-removing and qi-regulating drugs, which contain a large amount of volatile oil to play a therapeutic role. These aromatic substances are most incompatible with fishy smell. If you don't avoid fishy smell when taking traditional Chinese medicine, it often affects the efficacy. For example, fish, shrimp and seafood smell fishy, and cattle and sheep smell bad. For those patients with allergic dermatitis such as allergic asthma, allergic rhinitis, furuncle, eczema, urticaria, etc., they must avoid eating fishy things during taking traditional Chinese medicine.

7. Avoid strong tea

Generally, don't drink strong tea when taking traditional Chinese medicine, because tea contains tannic acid, and strong tea contains more tannic acid, which will affect the absorption of effective components in traditional Chinese medicine and reduce the curative effect. Especially when taking "Ejiao" and "Tremella", avoid taking it with tea, and taking it at the same time will precipitate tannic acid and alkaloids in tea, which will affect human absorption. If you have the habit of drinking tea, you can drink less green tea, and it is best to drink it after taking the medicine for 2 ~ 3 hours.

Extended information

If boiled directly with hot water, the starch, protein and other components on the surface of Chinese herbal medicine will suddenly be gelatinized or solidified by heating, which will hinder the leaching of starch and protein itself and other effective components in Chinese herbal medicine. The correct way is to soak the medicine in cold boiled water for a period of time (about 3 minutes) before frying, which is beneficial to the infiltration, dissolution and leaching of the effective components contained in Chinese herbal medicines.

At present, most of the domestic water used by urban residents is tap water, which is neither Tianshui (rain, fog and snow) nor ground water (rivers and lakes), but chemically treated water. In order to ensure disinfection of water. Tap water must contain a certain amount of residual chlorine, and in areas with poor water quality, the residual chlorine content is even greater. Chlorine is a strong oxidant, which can oxidize with many organic substances. Because the cold boiled water has been boiled, the residual chlorine has volatilized, which avoids the damage of residual chlorine to the effective components.

At the same time, in the process of water heating, due to the decomposition and precipitation of calcium and magnesium bicarbonate in raw water, the content of calcium and magnesium ions in water is reduced, thus reducing the chance of the effective components in medicinal materials combining with calcium and magnesium ions to precipitate, and increasing the concentration of effective components in medicinal juice. Therefore, it is better to boil traditional Chinese medicine with cold water.

People's Daily Online: Keep in mind the seven taboos of taking Chinese medicine.