Is it better to take Chinese medicine for regulating the spleen and stomach before or after meals?

It is best to take Chinese medicine for regulating the spleen and stomach after meals, because taking it after meals can reduce the damage to the stomach and intestines, and drinking it after meals helps the stomach and intestines absorb the efficacy of the medicine. If we drink Chinese medicine to regulate the spleen and stomach before meals, the medicinal properties of the medicine will affect the stomach and intestines, affecting the gastrointestinal mucosa. Therefore, we do not recommend that you drink Chinese medicine to strengthen the spleen before meals. I hope you can understand.

Medicine for regulating the spleen and stomach can be taken one hour after a meal. Stove earth can warm and nourish the spleen yang. If it is stove core soil, it can warm and nourish the spleen and stomach. Our patients are usually advised to take their medication half an hour before meals, as it is better absorbed than taking it after meals. If the decoction for regulating the spleen and stomach is used to treat indigestion, the Chinese medicine for aiding digestion should be taken after meals. If it is Chinese medicine for strengthening the spleen and replenishing qi, it should be taken on an empty stomach before meals. Drinking it on an empty stomach is conducive to the easy absorption of the qi-replenishing and spleen-replenishing medicinal effects.

Before decocting the medicine, I found that the usually used cuttlebone did not have 10 grams of pinellia, which was 5 grams less than usual. I called the doctor and he agreed to add 20 grams of cuttlebone. I took the decoction at 8:30 pm and went to bed at 10 o'clock. I drank 1.5 cups of water and took two tablets of valproate. However, I could not sleep when I lay down. I felt hot all over and couldn't cover it up. I couldn't breathe. I added two tablets of valproate and sprayed salbutamol aerosol, and then I calmed down. I slept at 11 o'clock and woke up at 1 o'clock in the middle of the night with a cough. I coughed up a lot of sticky phlegm and felt swelling, pain and itching in the right chest.

The main manifestations of Qi deficiency are: shortness of breath, laziness to speak, general fatigue, low voice, shortness of breath when moving, easy sweating, dizziness and palpitations, sallow complexion, loss of appetite, false heat, spontaneous sweating, rectal prolapse, prolapse of the uterus, pale and fat tongue with teeth marks on the edges of the tongue, weak pulse, etc. These are due to decreased function, not necessarily illness. People with Qi deficiency need to replenish Qi. Medicines for replenishing Qi include ginseng, astragalus, codonopsis, etc.

In order to enable everyone to take Chinese medicine for regulating the spleen and stomach correctly in life, we recommend that everyone should have a certain understanding of Chinese medicine for strengthening the spleen in life. Generally, we choose to take spleen-strengthening Chinese medicine half an hour after a meal. At this time, our stomach and intestines will begin to absorb the nutritional value of the food, and the efficacy of the medicine will also be absorbed.