What should you not eat while taking Chinese medicine?

When we take Chinese medicine, we need to pay special attention to our diet. I believe doctors will remind us of this. First of all, we cannot eat food with a fishy smell, because food with a fishy smell can cause symptoms of poisoning, and you cannot eat irritating foods, such as mutton and dog meat, etc., which will cause the condition to worsen. Therefore, patients still need to understand the following content about what they cannot eat when taking Chinese medicine.

1. Spicy food: This type of food is mostly spicy and hot, and has the effect of promoting yang and strengthening the stomach. If consumed too much, it is easy to produce phlegm and fire, disperse qi and consume blood. Therefore, this type of food is only suitable for people with cold syndrome diseases, but not for people with yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity, as well as patients with blood syndrome, febrile diseases, hemorrhoids, fistulas, carbuncles, etc. Such foods include onions, garlic, leeks, ginger, wine, peppers, etc. As chili peppers are hot in nature, if people with symptoms of heat such as fever, constipation, short and red urine, dry mouth, dry lips, sore throat, nosebleed, and red tongue eat them, it will inevitably aggravate the symptoms of "getting angry", thereby offsetting the effects of heat-clearing, cooling blood and nourishing yin drugs. Therefore, patients with heat syndrome should not eat chili peppers when seeing a Chinese medicine doctor.

2. Fishy foods: These foods are mostly salty, cold and fishy, ​​and contain foreign proteins, which can easily cause allergic reactions. Eating too much can damage the spleen and stomach and induce diseases. Therefore, people with spleen and stomach diseases should not eat too much, especially those with allergies. Such foods include yellow croaker, carp, hairtail, clam meat, shrimp, crab, etc., while carp, sardines, catfish, yellow croaker, crab and yellow mud snail are most likely to cause allergies. Fishy foods are also considered to be allergenic.

3. Foods that cause inflammation: These foods are all those that stir up wind, generate phlegm and boost fire. Since the degree to which the disease affects the food involved varies, the effects of these foods also vary. Such foods include mushrooms, champignons, bamboo shoots, mustard greens, pumpkin, rooster meat, pork head, sow meat, etc. For example, patients with hyperactivity of liver yang and internal liver wind should not eat rooster meat and pork head meat; patients with skin diseases such as furuncles, boils, sores and carbuncles should not eat shiitake mushrooms, bamboo shoots, rooster meat, pork head meat and sow meat, otherwise it will accelerate redness, swelling and pus formation; people with gastrointestinal diseases should not eat pumpkin, because pumpkin contains sugar, eating too much will produce more acid, which will irritate the gastrointestinal tract. In view of this, "fa" can be said to, to a large extent, to promote the deterioration of the disease.

4. Raw and cold foods: This type of food is mostly cold in nature, and its main function is to clear away heat and quench thirst, so it is suitable for heat-related diseases. However, it can easily affect gastrointestinal function, so it should be avoided by people with weak and cold constitution and patients with gastrointestinal diseases. For example, white radish is cold in nature and has the effects of digesting food, resolving phlegm, and regulating qi. If patients with weak constitutions or gastrointestinal diseases eat it, it will add to the cold and make their gastrointestinal function worse. In addition, when taking ginseng and other tonic medicines at the same time, due to their incompatible properties, the effectiveness of the tonic medicines can be reduced or eliminated, so radish and ginseng should not be taken together.

5. Greasy foods: This type of food includes animal fats and hard foods that are fried or deep-fried. Greasy food can damage the spleen and stomach, so it should be avoided by those suffering from external diseases, jaundice, and diarrhea. Fried foods are hard, hot and difficult to digest. People with gastrointestinal diseases or those suffering from "internal heat" should avoid eating them.

Regarding what this article introduces about not being able to eat when taking Chinese medicine, I believe you all know that you cannot eat fishy or greasy food when taking Chinese medicine, and you should be aware of your own diet problems in life, mainly focusing on light food, and paying more attention to keeping warm, etc., so that your body can recover as soon as possible.