Precautions for taking Chinese medicine raw or cold

Chinese medicine emphasizes conditioning with Chinese medicine. The body conditioned with Chinese medicine has a good effect and is very helpful for nourishing the body and regulating qi and blood. Chinese medicine is extensive and profound in our country. However, when taking Chinese medicine, it is still necessary to prescribe the right medicine for the right condition. Different physiques can choose different medicines for conditioning. Chinese medicine is taboo to spicy food, and it is taboo to spicy food. So what are the precautions for Chinese medicine to avoid raw and cold food?

As the saying goes, "If you don't control your diet while taking medicine, you will ruin the doctor's work." Dietary restrictions refer to dietary taboos when taking medicine or treating illness. Dietary restriction is a characteristic of TCM treatment, and physicians have always attached great importance to it. Relevant content is also widely found in medical books such as "The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine", "Treatise on Febrile Diseases", and "Golden Chamber".

Practice has proved that there is some truth in abstaining from certain foods. Because the common foods we eat on a daily basis, such as fish, meat, chicken, eggs, vegetables, fruits, sauces, vinegar, tea, and wine, all have their own properties, which have a certain impact on the occurrence and development of diseases and the therapeutic effects of drugs.

For example, in the book "Diet for Treating Diseases" written by Zhang Xingyun in the Qing Dynasty, it said: "The patient's diet is used to nourish the stomach qi and promote the effectiveness of the medicine. Therefore, proper diet can assist the medicine, while improper diet can become the enemy of the medicine." Therefore, patients should avoid certain foods when taking Chinese medicine.

When taking Chinese medicine to clear internal heat, you should not eat hot foods such as onions, garlic, pepper, mutton, and dog meat; when taking warming medicine to treat "cold syndrome", you should avoid eating raw and cold foods.

There are also a large number of records in ancient documents: licorice, coptis, platycodon, and black plum are incompatible with pork; mint is incompatible with turtle meat; Poria is incompatible with vinegar; turtle and fish are incompatible with amaranth; chicken is incompatible with eel; honey is against raw onion; asparagus is incompatible with carp; Schizonepeta is incompatible with fish, crab, puffer fish, and donkey meat; Atractylodes is incompatible with garlic, peach, plum, etc. This means that you should not eat certain foods while taking certain medications. If you eat forbidden foods, the therapeutic effect will be unsatisfactory or may have the opposite effect.

In addition, due to the disease, during the medication period, you should avoid eating raw, cold, greasy, fishy, ​​and other foods that are difficult to digest or have special irritants.

For example, when you have a cold or a rash in children, you should avoid eating raw, cold, sour, or greasy foods. When treating chest tightness and abdominal distension caused by qi stagnation, you should avoid eating beans and sweet potatoes, because these foods can easily cause flatulence. Others, such as patients with edema should eat less salt; patients with asthma and allergic dermatitis should eat less "hairy food" such as chicken, mutton, pork head, fish, shrimp, crab, etc.

When taking Chinese medicine, people with poor gastrointestinal digestion should pay attention to different precautions when taking different Chinese medicines. For example, you cannot eat raw and cold foods when taking Chinese medicine. Fruits, cold drinks, and cold foods cannot be eaten. In addition, you should pay attention to foods such as ginger, seafood, etc. These foods should also be avoided.