What foods should you pay attention to when drinking Chinese medicine?

　　When Chinese medicine treats diseases, it is generally treated by drinking Chinese medicine. When it comes to Chinese medicine, people's biggest reaction is that it is too bitter! Indeed, Chinese medicine is particularly bitter, and some Chinese medicine is not suitable for adding some sugar when drinking, which may affect the effect of the medicine. In fact, whether you are taking Chinese medicine or Western medicine, there are always some foods that you should not eat casually during treatment.

　　Different medicines require different things to pay attention to. If you are treating skin diseases, you should avoid food that is harmful to your diet. In addition to the pungent and cold stimulating foods that we all know, what should you not eat when taking traditional Chinese medicine?

　　fat food

　　“To a large extent, it can be said to promote the worsening of the disease. These foods are all products that stimulate wind, produce phlegm and help fire. Due to the different degrees of food selection of diseases, their "disease" is also different. Such foods include mushrooms, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, mustard greens, pumpkins, rooster meat, pig head meat, sow meat, etc.

　　For example, patients with hyperactivity of liver yang and internal liver wind should not eat rooster meat and pig head meat; patients with boils, boils, sores, carbuncles and other skin diseases should not eat mushrooms, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, rooster meat, pig head meat, and sow meat, otherwise it will accelerate redness, swelling and pus; people with gastrointestinal diseases should not eat pumpkin, because pumpkin contains sugar, and eating more will produce more acid, which is irritating to the gastrointestinal tract.

　　Fishy food

　　Most of these foods are salty, cold and fishy, ​​and contain heterosexual proteins, which can easily cause allergic reactions. Eating too much can easily damage the spleen and stomach and induce diseases. Therefore, people with spleen and stomach diseases should not eat more, especially those with allergies.

　　Such foods include yellow croaker, carp, hairtail, mussel meat, shrimp, crab, etc. Carp, sardines, catfish, yellow croaker, crabs, and yellow mud snails are most likely to cause allergies. Fishy food is also a hairy food.

　　Spicy food

　　This kind of food is pungent and hot, and has the effect of unblocking yang and strengthening the stomach. If eaten too much, it will easily produce phlegm, stir up fire, disperse qi and consume blood. Therefore, this type of food is only suitable for people with cold syndrome diseases, but not suitable for patients with yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity, blood syndrome, febrile diseases, hemorrhoids, fistulas, carbuncles, etc. Such foods include onions, garlic, leeks, ginger, wine, peppers, etc. For example, chili peppers are of hot nature, and if consumed by people with heat symptoms such as fever, constipation, short red urine, dry mouth, dry lips, sore throat, epistaxis, red tongue, etc., it will inevitably aggravate the symptoms of "heat" and offset the effects of heat-clearing, cooling-blood and yin-nourishing drugs. Therefore, patients with heat syndrome should not eat chili peppers when seeking treatment with traditional Chinese medicine. Bitter cold medicines such as rhubarb, coptis, and skullcap, or cold medicines such as peony bark, cork bark, honeysuckle, platycodon, mulberry leaves, forsythia, etc. You should avoid eating spicy and irritating foods.

　　Raw and cold food

　　This kind of food is mostly cold in nature and its main function is to clear away heat and quench thirst, so it is suitable for heat syndrome diseases. However, it can easily affect gastrointestinal function, so it should be contraindicated by people with weak and cold constitutions and patients with gastrointestinal diseases.

　　For example, white radish is cold in nature and has the effects of digestion, resolving phlegm, and regulating qi. If patients with weak constitutions and gastrointestinal diseases eat it, wouldn't it add cold to the cold and worsen gastrointestinal function?

　　In addition, when taking ginseng and other tonics at the same time, radish and ginseng should not be taken together because the properties of the medicines are incompatible and can reduce or eliminate the effectiveness of the tonics. Ginseng can replenish qi, while radish can promote, reduce, and break qi. If radish and ginseng are eaten at the same time, the qi-enhancing effect of ginseng may be weakened. Other warming and tonic drugs, such as American ginseng, Codonopsis pilosula, astragalus root, Polygonum multiflorum, Rehmannia glutinosa, etc., have similar effects to ginseng and are not suitable to be taken with radish.

　　sour food

　　Too much acid will irritate the gastrointestinal tract, so patients with hyperacidity and gastrointestinal ulcers should not eat. Astringent ones mostly contain tannins.

　　For example, tea contains tannins, and strong tea has a higher content. When taken together with Chinese herbal medicine, it can combine with certain proteins, alkaloids, and heavy metal salts in the Chinese herbal medicine to produce precipitation. This will affect the absorption of the active ingredients of the medicine, and also affect the absorption of proteins and other nutrients.

　　greasy food

　　Such foods include animal fats and fried, deep-fried solid foods. Grease impairs the health of the spleen and stomach, so it should be contraindicated by people with external diseases, jaundice, and diarrhea. Fried and deep-fried foods are hard, hot, and difficult to digest. People with gastrointestinal diseases and "heat" should not eat them.

　　Therefore, when taking Chinese herbal medicine, it is generally not suitable to take it with strong tea.

　　Finally, I would like to remind everyone that, in addition to seafood, peanuts, etc., some tropical fruits such as mangoes and lychees are also "fat foods". People who are taking traditional Chinese medicine to treat asthma, dermatitis and other allergic diseases should not eat such foods.

　　There are still many things that we need to pay attention to when drinking Chinese medicine. We do not drink medicine to cure diseases, so we must pay attention to these contents when drinking Chinese medicine. Do not eat randomly, and do not drink the bitter Chinese medicine. It will have no effect at all.