Taboo to eat Chinese medicine When taking Chinese medicine for clearing fire, you should not eat hot food such as onion, garlic, pepper, mutton and dog meat. When taking traditional Chinese medicine to treat "cold syndrome", you should avoid eating cold food. There are also a lot of records in ancient literature: licorice, coptis, platycodon grandiflorum and ebony avoid pork; Mint avoids turtle meat; Poria cocos is jealous of vinegar; Turtles avoid amaranth; Chicken avoids eel; Honey avoids raw onions; Asparagus avoids carp; Schizonepeta avoids fish, crabs, puffer fish and donkey meat; Atractylodes macrocephala avoids garlic, peaches and plums. This shows that you should not eat certain foods when taking certain drugs. If you eat taboo food, the curative effect will be unsatisfactory or counterproductive. In addition, due to the disease, all foods that are difficult to digest or have special irritation, such as cold, greasy and fishy, should be avoided during taking the medicine. Don't drink strong tea when eating traditional Chinese medicine, because tea contains tannic acid, and strong tea contains more tannic acid. Taking it with traditional Chinese medicine will affect the absorption of effective components of traditional Chinese medicine and reduce the curative effect; Coffee, cola, sprite and other drinks are not suitable for drinking; We should mainly drink boiled water. Children should not eat cold, sour and greasy food when they have a cold or rash; When treating chest tightness and abdominal distension caused by qi stagnation, beans and sweet potatoes should not be eaten because these foods are easy to cause flatulence. Others such as edema patients eat less salt; Patients with asthma and allergic dermatitis should eat less chicken, sheep, pig head, fish, shrimp and crab. Patients with asthma and allergic dermatitis should eat less chicken, sheep, pig head, fish, shrimp and crab. Because during the asthma attack, high-protein foods such as eggs, milk, fish and shrimp will become the "hair" that aggravates the condition. In addition, due to the disease, no matter what medicine you take, you should avoid cold, greasy, fishy, indigestible or particularly irritating foods. General taboos: ice cubes, watermelons, white radishes, water spinach, pumpkins, bamboo shoots, glutinous rice, peppers, duck meat and sauerkraut. Special taboo: taking western medicine or tea is two hours apart from taking Chinese medicine. Precautions for drinking Chinese medicine: 1. Chinese medicine should be taken 30-60 minutes after meals, which can avoid the irritation of Chinese medicine ingredients to gastric mucosa. 2. It is best not to drink tea, coffee, milk or soybean milk about one hour before and after drinking Chinese medicine, so as to avoid the chemical reaction between Chinese medicine ingredients and tannins, caffeine and protein of tea, which will affect the curative effect. You can drink water. Please stop drinking soup for colds and coughs.

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