Can I take calcium tablets while taking Chinese medicine?

There are many precautions when taking Chinese medicine. There is no conflict between taking Chinese medicine and taking calcium tablets, and they can be taken at the same time. There are many precautions when taking Chinese medicine. During this period, you cannot smoke, drink alcohol, or eat spicy food. You cannot eat seafood, raw, cold, and hard food. The tablet mainly contains calcium, which supplements nutrition to the human body. Calcium tablets are not within the scope of taboos of traditional Chinese medicine.

The development of traditional Chinese medicine has a history of thousands of years, and traditional Chinese medicine treats both the symptoms and the root causes of diseases.

If you pay attention to the contraindications of taking Chinese medicine, you can make the medicine exert its medicinal effects.

For example, sometimes if you are taking Chinese medicine and don’t pay attention to which foods may have a counter-effect on the medicine, the medicine will lose its effectiveness. This will affect the effectiveness of the treatment.

Western medicine only treats the symptoms and not the root cause. Therefore, for some diseases, treatment through traditional Chinese medicine can achieve a complete cure. However, when receiving traditional Chinese medicine treatment, you must pay attention to the contraindications of taking Chinese medicine.

5 taboos and precautions of Chinese medicine

1. It is not advisable to eat raw radish when taking Chinese medicine, because radish has the effects of digesting food and breaking up gas. Especially when taking tonic Chinese medicine such as ginseng and astragalus, eating radish will weaken the tonic effect of ginseng, reduce the efficacy of the medicine and fail to achieve the therapeutic purpose.

2. Raw and cold foods such as cucumbers and winter melons are mostly cold in nature and difficult to digest. Raw and cold foods can also easily irritate the gastrointestinal tract and affect the gastrointestinal absorption of drugs.

3. Generally, do not drink tea when taking Chinese medicine, because tea contains tannic acid, which will affect the body's absorption of the active ingredients in the medicine and reduce its efficacy when taken with Chinese medicine.

Among them, Tremella and donkey-hide gelatin should not be taken with tea. Taking them at the same time will cause the alkali components in the tea to precipitate, affecting the body's absorption.

4. If you eat greasy food while taking Chinese medicine, it will inevitably affect the absorption of the medicine. For example, beef, dog meat, mutton, etc.

Patients with hypertension, coronary heart disease, hyperlipidemia, high blood viscosity and obesity should give up meat and greasy food.

5. Traditional Chinese medicine can treat both the symptoms and the root cause of the disease, and the side effects of using traditional Chinese medicine are small.

In particular, regular tertiary Chinese medicine hospitals have abandoned many toxic but effective traditional Chinese medicines that have serious side effects.

Even poisonous Chinese medicines such as aconite are made into aconite slices to reduce their toxicity.