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 for about an hour before and after drinking Chinese medicine, so as to avoid the chemical reaction between Chinese medicine ingredients and tea tannin, caffeine and protein, which will affect the curative effect. You can drink water. If you feel uncomfortable or have diarrhea after eating Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine also has side effects. Traditional Chinese medicine is mostly natural medicine with complex effective components, such as alkaloids, saponins, tannins, volatile oil and so on. Since it is a medicine, most of them will have different degrees of side effects. Generally speaking, the side effects of traditional Chinese medicine are less than those of synthetic western medicine, but some drugs are more toxic, such as red arsenolite, white arsenolite, mercury, Mylabris, green nymph, red nymph, raw gamboge and so on. Less toxic: Rhizoma Typhonii, Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata, Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii, Rhizoma Pinelliae, Semen Strychni, Croton, Rhizoma Arisaematis, Radix Kansui, Rhododendron, Fairy, Venenum Bufonis, Eupolyphaga Seu Steleophaga, Luzongguo, Coriolus versicolor, Solanum lyratum, raw sulfur, Croton paste, Huang Dan, poppy shell, etc. Be careful when using these drugs, such as soaking flowers in wine. Oral administration can treat rheumatoid arthritis, and overdose often leads to poisoning death. Therefore, toxic Chinese herbal medicines must be taken under the guidance of a doctor. Then, Pinellia ternata, Rhizoma Arisaematis, Radix Aconiti Lateralis, Radix Aconiti, Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii, etc. They are all commonly used traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions. Why can't they be poisoned? On the one hand, due to the processing of these drugs, oral raw Pinellia ternata will cause vomiting. My lips are numb. Hoarse voice and other side effects, but the toxicity of raw Pinellia ternata is greatly reduced after being processed with ginger juice, alum and salt. On the other hand, we should master the correct use method. For example, when mercury is used as the main medicine to treat skin cancer and cervical cancer, it can only be used externally, and it is strictly forbidden to take it orally, otherwise mercury poisoning will occur. Although some Chinese herbal medicines are slightly toxic, if the dosage is too large, it will have serious side effects. If Akebia Akebia can promote lactation, if a large dose (50g) is cooked with pig's trotters, renal function will be damaged after taking it. Another example is ginkgo biloba, because it contains a small amount of hydrocyanic acid. Under excessive conditions, there will be poisoning phenomena such as fever, vomiting, diarrhea, convulsions, convulsions, stiff limbs, blue skin, dilated pupils, weak and chaotic pulse, and even coma. When you need to use some toxic Chinese herbal medicines, you should first be cautious, closely observe and pay attention to whether the dosage is appropriate. The former should take a little longer. Secondly, it can be compatible with some drugs to reduce toxicity. For example, Zhao Shi Pill, which is used for ascites due to liver cirrhosis, is a Chinese herbal medicine with strong purgative effect, such as Kansui, Euphorbia Euphorbia, Daphne genkwa, etc., and is compatible with jujube to reduce toxicity. For some toxic Chinese herbal medicines, licorice is often used to alleviate toxicity. It is proved that glycyrrhizic acid contained in Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch has pharmacological detoxification effect, which confirms the correct conclusion of Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica. = = = How to reduce the side effects of taking traditional Chinese medicine In Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica, the toxic and side effects of traditional Chinese medicine are clearly distinguished from general drugs, and the processing principles of traditional Chinese medicine are pointed out. When a stomach patient needs to take bitter cold medicine because of other physical diseases, if he does not take good care of his spleen and stomach, his stomach pain may get worse when other diseases are cured. It can be said that this is also a side effect of traditional Chinese medicine. Although cold medicine can clear away heat, it is easy to hurt yang; Although hot medicine can dispel cold, it consumes yin energy; Attacking poison can dispel evil spirits, but it can hurt righteousness; Nourishing drugs can enhance the body's resistance, but they can love evil. Therefore, on the one hand, we should reduce drug bias by processing, compatibility, reducing dosage and improving medication methods, and at the same time, we should master the contraindications of drugs to ensure drug safety. The eighteen evils and nineteen fears mentioned by traditional Chinese medicine are also related to the prevention of toxic and side effects of traditional Chinese medicine. Clinically, Chinese medicine pays attention to "holistic conditioning, syndrome differentiation and treatment" and uses drugs such as "monarch, minister, assistant and envoy", which means that people should distinguish individuals when using Chinese medicine, which varies from person to person and from time to time. For example, when gardenia is used, it has the effect of clearing away the fire of triple energizer, but some people may have abdominal pain after taking it, and a few can see diarrhea. Most of these people will relieve themselves after stopping taking the medicine. If you can't stop taking medicine due to illness, you can add traditional Chinese medicine for regulating qi and relieving pain, strengthening spleen and stopping diarrhea or take fried gardenia to eliminate its side effects. In a word, as long as we use traditional Chinese medicine scientifically and reasonably according to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine and pay attention to processing, processing and compatibility, we can completely reduce or eliminate its side effects. The main points are as follows: (1) During taking ginseng and codonopsis pilosula, radish and mung bean should be avoided. Because the nature and function of the two drugs are different, they will offset each other. (2) When taking mother-of-pearl, jujube kernel, Fritillaria and Pinellia ternata, avoid drinking tea, so as to avoid the reaction of tannins in tea and reduce the efficacy. (3) Heat syndrome, pepper and ginger should not be spicy and greasy. (4) Those with cold syndrome should avoid cold fruits. (5) People with hyperactivity of liver yang should not eat leeks, garlic, meat dishes, thick paste, etc. (6) People with indigestion should avoid frying sticky and indigestible things. (7) Allergic diseases or skin diseases such as rubella and itching, as well as diseases such as asthma, should avoid eating "hair" containing foreign protein, such as fish, shrimp, fishy seafood, etc., so as not to aggravate the allergic reaction. (8) Patients with coronary heart disease, hyperlipidemia or hepatitis should not eat animal fat. (9) Patients with edema should avoid salt. (10) Diabetes patients avoid sugar. (1 1) Patients with phlegm-dampness should not eat astringent products. (12) Fish, shrimp, crab and other fishy foods and irritating foods are not allowed for diseases such as sores and abscesses. Taboo treatment of diseases is scientific, but it is not immutable. According to the specific situation as appropriate. When taking Chinese medicine: (1) Don't eat with western medicine. When using traditional Chinese medicine, stop using western medicine; (2) Eat before meals in the morning and after meals in the evening, and generally eat or other things after taking medicine for half an hour; (3) When taking Chinese medicine, it is best to drink less tea; Cold, greasy and other indigestible, spicy and irritating foods should be avoided during taking medicine, so as not to affect the absorption and curative effect of the medicine. Such as: Poria cocos avoid vinegar; Honey avoids raw onions; Asparagus avoids carp; Atractylodes macrocephala avoids garlic, peaches and plums. During the period of taking traditional Chinese medicine, hair can't be eaten, which will induce or aggravate the condition. The so-called hair refers to foods that are particularly prone to induce certain diseases (especially old diseases) or aggravate diseases that have already occurred. Hair taboo is of great significance in diet and dietotherapy. Under normal circumstances, hair is also food, and moderate consumption will not cause side effects or discomfort to most people. Only in view of some special constitutions and some diseases related to them can diseases be induced. Foods belonging to hair can be divided into the following categories according to their sources: 1, and edible fungi mainly include mushrooms and shiitake mushrooms. Excessive consumption of these foods can easily lead to chronic diseases such as wind-induced yang, liver-yang headache and liver-wind vertigo. In addition, it is easy to induce or aggravate skin sores. 2. Seafood mainly includes hairtail and yellow croaker. These foods are mostly salty, cold and fishy, which are easy to induce allergic diseases such as asthma and urticaria, and also easy to promote skin diseases such as sores and swelling. 3. Vegetables mainly include bamboo shoots, mustard greens, pumpkins and spinach. 4. Fruits mainly include peach, apricot, ginkgo, mango, bayberry, cherry and litchi. Insect scabies, eating more apricots will cause carbuncle and hurt bones and muscles. 5. Livestock and poultry mainly include roosters, heads of chickens, pig heads, geese, chicken wings, chicken feet, donkey meat, roe deer, beef, mutton, dog meat, goose eggs and duck eggs. This kind of food goes up and down on its own initiative. In particular, patients with hepatitis, allergies, hyperlipidemia, high fever, kidney disease and diarrhea should not eat more. The reason is that eggs contain a lot of protein, but they belong to the opposite sex. A considerable number of people have pathological reactions after eating protein of the opposite sex. In addition, there are vegetable oil, distiller's grains, liquor, peas, soybeans, tofu, tofu, silkworm chrysalis, onions, garlic and tofu.