Should I take Chinese medicine for regulating the spleen and stomach before or after meals?

In daily life, many people also have poor gastrointestinal conditions. If you are busy at work and have irregular diet, it is easy to have gastrointestinal problems. Over time, it is very harmful to the stomach organs and the burden is also very heavy. It is very important to regulate the spleen and stomach. At present, some Chinese medicines can regulate the spleen and stomach very well, but patients do not know whether to take Chinese medicines for regulating the spleen and stomach before or after meals?

Should Chinese medicine for treating stomach problems be taken before or after meals?

Treatment of stomach problems The so-called stomach problems are actually a general term for many diseases. They have similar symptoms, such as upper abdominal discomfort, pain, fullness after meals, warmth, acid reflux, and even nausea and vomiting. Common stomach diseases in clinical practice include acute gastritis, chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, combined gastroduodenal ulcer, gastric polyps, gastric stones, benign and malignant tumors of the stomach, as well as gastric mucosal prolapse, acute gastric dilatation, pyloric obstruction, etc. It is best to take Chinese medicine after meals.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, digestive and stomachic drugs or drugs that irritate the gastrointestinal tract are suitable for taking after meals, usually 30 minutes to 1 hour after meals.

reason:

1. The drug is diluted by food to reduce adverse stimulation to the gastrointestinal tract;

2. Delay the disintegration of drug preparations and the dissolution of drugs;

3. Food can increase the viscosity of the contents of the digestive tract, hindering the diffusion of drugs into the digestive tract wall;

4. Food also affects gastric emptying and delays drug absorption in the small intestine.

Medication that needs to be taken after meals, such as

1. Ciprofloxacin, erythromycin, indomethacin, aspirin, sulfonamides, APC, phenylbutazone, nitrofurantoin, iron preparations, potassium chloride, etc., which are irritating to the gastric mucosa or easily cause nausea and loss of appetite, should be taken after meals.

2. Xuezhikang, a drug for comprehensive regulation of blood lipids, should be taken after meals because of its weak acidity;

3. Antacids such as aluminum hydroxide tablets or gels, stomach soothing drugs, etc. should be taken about 0.5-1 hour after a meal to neutralize excess gastric acid in the stomach and form a protective film in the stomach to prevent food irritation.

Regarding whether Chinese medicine for regulating the spleen and stomach should be taken before or after meals, this question has been introduced a lot above. In fact, we must pay attention to the medicine in our daily life. There are some issues about the time of taking the medicine that we must understand well. If we don’t know and take the medicine casually, not only will it not have a good therapeutic effect, but it will also cause many other physical diseases.