1. How long does it take for TCM to recuperate?
Experts said that this time is not easy to determine, because everyone's physique is different and their ability to absorb drugs is different. It depends on the severity of your illness. If the illness is mild, you don't need to drink it for too long. If the condition is serious, you need to recuperate slowly.
Chinese medicine pays attention to syndrome differentiation and treatment, seeing the effect of your medication, and then changing the prescription accordingly. Generally, you need to take three courses of treatment, seven days as a course of treatment, and drink each medicine once in the morning and evening to achieve satisfactory therapeutic effects. If you are in poor health, you should insist on intermittent treatment. If you get well, you should stop taking the medicine immediately!
In addition, because the conditioning time of traditional Chinese medicine will be longer, we should pay attention to fasting spicy, greasy and irritating foods during the conditioning period, and at the same time pay attention to combining work and rest, strengthen nutrition and actively participate in physical exercise.
It's time to drink Chinese medicine.
1, before meals
Usually take the medicine 30 ~ 60 minutes before meals. If the disease is second, you should take the medicine before meals, so that the medicinal properties of the medicine can be easily released, such as liver and kidney deficiency or diseases below the waist. In the treatment of intestinal diseases, it is also advisable to take medicine before meals, because in the fasting state, the liquid medicine can directly contact with the mucosa of the digestive tract and quickly enter the intestine through the stomach, so as to be absorbed more and play a role, so as not to be diluted by the food in the stomach and affect the efficacy.
Step 2 take it after meals
Take the medicine after meals 15 ~ 30 minutes. The sick place is in bed, so you should take medicine after meals. If it is used to treat diseases such as heart, lung, chest, diaphragm and upper abdominal cavity, it can improve the medicinal properties after meals.
Step 3 take it on an empty stomach
Soup with nourishing effect should be drunk on an empty stomach in the morning to facilitate full absorption. Drugs used to repel insects or treat vascular diseases of limbs should also be taken on an empty stomach, so that the drugs can quickly enter the intestine and maintain a high concentration, so as to quickly exert their efficacy. The same is true of the decoction with purgative effect, thus enhancing the curative effect.
4. Bedtime clothes
Generally, it is taken 0/5 ~ 30 minutes before going to bed. Drugs for invigorating the heart and spleen, calming the heart and calming the nerves, calming sleep and relieving depression, and chest diaphragm disease.
In order to ensure the curative effect of traditional Chinese medicine and make it play a better therapeutic role, it is necessary to understand the taboos of eating traditional Chinese medicine. Look at the precautions for drinking Chinese medicine.
3. Precautions for drinking Chinese medicine
1. Please take Chinese medicine 30-60 minutes after meals. It can avoid the stimulation of traditional Chinese medicine components on 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 unwell or diarrhea after taking Chinese medicine, please contact us in time. If you have a cold or cough, please stop taking the decoction.
If you feel bitter, you can add some sugar before taking it.
Generally, traditional Chinese medicine should be taken warm, left for a period of time after decoction, and taken when it is neither too hot nor too cold, such as Pinghe medicine. Any cold medicine should be taken while it is hot to achieve the purpose of sweating; The same is true of drugs for dispelling cold and promoting blood circulation, which is beneficial to dispelling cold and promoting blood circulation.
4, taking traditional Chinese medicine taboo
1, taboo foods that affect drug use. For example, cold food, strong tea, spicy and greasy, radish and other foods. Some of these types of foods will reduce the efficacy of drugs, some will reduce absorption, and some will have harmful effects. Therefore, when taking traditional Chinese medicine, you must follow the doctor's advice and make relevant taboos.
2. In order to pursue quick curative effect, it is not advisable to take traditional Chinese medicine excessively or for a long time. For example, cassia seed has the function of lowering blood fat, but taking cassia seed for a long time may cause diarrhea. Long-term use of hay with functions of invigorating spleen and qi, clearing away heat and toxic materials will lead to an increase in blood pressure. This is the truth of the folk proverb "Medicine has three poisons".
3. People with special physique should use Chinese medicine with caution. For example, people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold may have symptoms such as stomach upset and bowel sounds after taking traditional Chinese medicine containing wild chrysanthemum. It's best to learn about your physical condition from Chinese medicine, or test yourself first. If you belong to a typical constitution, you should know the corresponding contraindications before taking Chinese medicine.
4. Pregnant women should be cautious when taking Chinese medicine. Because western medicine may cause fetal malformation and other reasons, many pregnant women prefer Chinese patent medicine. However, some Chinese patent medicines are definitely poisonous. What needs to be remembered is that pregnant women should be cautious about the importance of clearing heat, expelling wind and removing dampness, promoting digestion, guiding stagnation, purging, regulating qi, enlightening, expelling worms and removing dampness.
5. Matters needing attention in the process of decocting traditional Chinese medicine. Modern families often use iron pans, stainless steel pot or non-stick pans. It's best not to fry important things with them, but to choose a clay frying pan or casserole. Because decocting medicine is a long process, the use of metal products is easy to make some pharmaceutical ingredients react with utensils, producing or releasing heavy metals harmful to human body.
6. Traditional Chinese medicine decoction should not be taken overnight. We usually eat an important form of decoction, which forms a traditional Chinese medicine decoction for oral administration. Traditional Chinese medicine decoction has complex components, including protein, sugar, vitamins, volatile oil and amino acids. After staying overnight, not only the efficacy is reduced, but also bacteria are likely to multiply in large numbers, leading to the deterioration of the liquid medicine. Therefore, Chinese medicine should be decocted on the same day and taken on the same day, and it is absolutely impossible to take overnight Chinese medicine decoction.
7. Use folk Chinese medicine remedies with caution. In our country, many people are willing to listen to the so-called magical and important remedies to treat some intractable diseases. Many of these folk remedies are not recorded in the medical pharmacopoeia, and some may be effective, but not all folk remedies are correct. In the face of important folk remedies, it is necessary to consult a regular doctor to understand the function and compatibility of related drugs before deciding whether to adopt them.