Is it harmful to take Chinese medicine for a month?

Traditional Chinese medicine refers to a kind of medicine made from Chinese herbs. Traditional Chinese medicine is relatively warm in nature and can effectively relieve the body and treat some physical diseases. Taking traditional Chinese medicine for a month has both advantages and disadvantages to the body. Generally speaking, if the safety of the medicine is very high, then taking it for a month will not harm the body. If the drug is more effective, it may affect your health.

Is it harmful to drink Chinese medicine for a month ?

The human body is maintained by the harmonious operation of many yin and yang, such as heart yin, heart yang, kidney yin, kidney yang and so on. The medicinal properties of Chinese medicine are that some have more heart-yin components, while others have more kidney-yang components. We take Chinese medicine because there is an imbalance of yin and yang in a certain part of the body, and the important medicinal properties happen to complement our body. In this way, we take these Chinese medicines to restore the yin and yang of the body to a balanced state.

So, no matter whether we take the medicine for a month, a day or a year, as long as the medicine can promote the balance of yin and yang in our body, it will be harmless but beneficial to our body. Otherwise it will do more harm than good.

Therefore, it mainly depends on your current physical condition and the medicinal properties of the medicines you are currently taking to determine whether they are harmful to your body. If you take the right medicine, the longer you take it, the better your health will be. If you take the wrong medicine, even once, the consequences will be disastrous.

Precautions for taking Chinese medicine:

1. It is best to take Chinese medicine 30-60 minutes after a meal. This can avoid the irritation of the Chinese medicine ingredients to the gastric mucosa.

2. It is best not to drink tea, coffee, milk or soy milk about one hour before or after taking Chinese medicine, so as to avoid chemical reactions between the Chinese medicine ingredients and the tannins, caffeine and proteins in the tea, which may affect the efficacy. You can drink water.

3. If you feel uncomfortable or have diarrhea after taking Chinese medicine, please contact us in time. If you have a cold or cough, please stop taking the decoction.

4. If you feel the taste is bitter, you can add some sugar before taking it!

Chinese medicine also has side effects

Most Chinese medicines are natural medicines with relatively complex active ingredients, such as alkaloids, saponins, tannins, volatile oils, etc. Since they are medicines, most of them will have side effects to varying degrees. Generally speaking, the side effects of traditional Chinese medicine are smaller than those of artificially synthesized Western medicine, but some drugs are more toxic, such as red arsenic, white arsenic, mercury, blister beetles, green lady bugs, red lady bugs, and raw garcinia. Those with slightly less toxicity include: white aconite, raw aconite, raw Chuanwu, raw Caowu, raw Pinellia, Strychnos nux vomica, croton, raw Arisaema, raw Gelsemium elegans, wolfsbane, henbane, toad venom, earthworm, Strychnos nux vomica, cloud axis seed, maple eggplant, maple eggplant flower, raw sulfur, croton frost, white radish, poppy shell, etc. When using these medicines, you must be cautious. For example, maple leaf wine can be taken orally to treat rheumatoid arthritis, but excessive doses can often cause poisoning and death. Therefore, toxic Chinese herbal medicines must be taken under the guidance of a physician.

So, why don't poisoning occur when Pinellia, Arisaema, Aconitum, Chuanwu, and Aconitum are commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions? On the one hand, it is because these medicines are processed. For example, taking raw Pinellia orally can cause vomiting. Numbness of lips and tongue. Hoarseness and other side effects, but after raw pinellia is processed with ginger juice, alum, salt, etc., its toxicity is greatly reduced. On the other hand, we must also master the correct method of use. For example, when mercury is used as the main drug to treat skin cancer and cervical cancer, it can only be used externally and is strictly prohibited for oral administration, otherwise mercury poisoning will occur.