Are there hormones in Chinese medicine?

Traditional Chinese medicine is a type of medicine that is frequently used in traditional Chinese medicine. There are many specific medicinal materials in traditional Chinese medicine, and different medicinal materials have different medicinal effects. Many people want to know whether there are hormones in traditional Chinese medicine. In fact, Chinese medicine is generally made from herbs and basically contains no hormones. However, there are certain taboos when using Chinese medicine. The following will introduce to you the contraindications of using traditional Chinese medicine!

1. Contraindications of Chinese medicine compatibility

Certain drugs cannot be used together because they can produce opposite or antagonistic relationships after formulation, reducing each other's efficacy or causing toxic side effects.

2. Contraindications for use of medication by pregnant women

The main purpose is to avoid fetal movement and abortion, because most pregnant women have poor tolerance to extreme cold, extreme heat, strong purgatives, blood-breaking and blood-stasis-removing drugs, and highly toxic drugs, so the relevant drugs must be avoided.

3. Dietary taboos during medication

Commonly known as dietary restrictions, it is mainly to avoid interfering factors when taking medicine in order to improve the efficacy of the medicine. It can be divided into two categories: dietary restrictions corresponding to a certain medicine and dietary restrictions when taking medicine under different disease conditions. For the former, for example, ginseng is not allowed to eat radish, turtle shell is not allowed to eat amaranth, licorice is not allowed to eat silver carp, shanshan is not allowed to eat onion, and poria is not allowed to eat vinegar. The latter means that when taking medicine for chronic diseases, one should avoid eating raw or cold food; during the treatment of febrile diseases, one should avoid eating spicy and greasy food; for carbuncles, ulcers, and skin diseases, one should avoid eating fish, shrimp, goose meat, and spicy food.

4. It is forbidden to take Chinese herbal decoction overnight

Because traditional Chinese medicine contains starch, sugar, protein, vitamins, volatile oils, amino acids, various enzymes, trace elements and other ingredients, most of these ingredients are dissolved in the soup during decocting. The general method of administration is to take half of the medicine while it is still warm, and then take the other half 4 to 6 hours later. If taken overnight or stored for too long, not only will the efficacy of the medicine be reduced, but the effects of air, temperature, time, bacterial contamination and other factors will cause the enzyme decomposition in the medicine to become less effective, bacteria to multiply and breed, and starch, sugar nutrients and other components to ferment and hydrolyze, causing the medicine to become rancid and deteriorate, which is harmful to human health after taking it.

5. Chinese medicine should not be taken with sugar

Some people add sugar to Chinese medicine when taking it because the decoction is bitter and difficult to swallow. In this regard, relevant experts point out that some Chinese medicines are not suitable for taking after adding sugar. Adding sugar reduces the bitterness of the medicine while also reducing its efficacy.

According to experts, Chinese medicine has four properties: cold, hot, warm and cool, and five flavors: pungent, sweet, sour, bitter and salty. Among them, pungent can disperse, sweet can slow down, sour can contract, bitter can astringe, and salty can enter the kidney. Chinese medicines with different tastes have different medicinal effects. Adding sugar to some Chinese medicines will change the medicinal properties of the bitter decoctions and affect their efficacy.