People pay more and more attention to their own health, and many people begin to pay attention to health preservation in their daily lives. However, when they are sick, most people especially like to eat western medicine, because eating western medicine takes effect faster, but there may be some side effects. Chinese medicine has a long course of treatment, but it can basically cure some diseases, so some people will ask whether Chinese medicine and western medicine can take it at the same time. Perhaps many people have thought about this question, because both Chinese medicine and western medicine have certain shortcomings. If we can choose one at the same time, we can directly avoid each other's defects. However, it is not recommended to eat Chinese medicine and western medicine together, because the effective components in Chinese medicine are formed by special decocting methods, which may have some special chemical reactions with the pharmacological components of western medicine or reduce each other's efficacy to a certain extent. In severe cases, it will have adverse reactions to the body and even lead to more serious diseases. Because these chemical reactions are unknowable and unpredictable, it is best not to take Chinese medicine and western medicine at the same time. From the pharmacological analysis of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine, most of them are prescription drugs, and the materials used are very complicated. Western medicine is mostly synthesized, so there will be many combinations. If Chinese medicine and western medicine are taken at the same time, these combinations will become more abundant, leading to uncontrollable curative effect and unnecessary harm to human body. For example, traditional Chinese medicine containing metal ions cannot be used with some antibiotics. These drugs may form insoluble salts or complexes in the gastrointestinal tract, accumulate in the gastrointestinal tract, increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract, and even cause gastrointestinal diseases, which will not only aggravate the condition. Therefore, if it is inevitable to use two different drugs when choosing traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine, it is best to take another drug after half an hour or at the time arranged by the doctor.