What should not be eaten when taking Chinese medicine?

In our daily life, we cannot eat seafood or irritating foods when taking Chinese medicine. Doctors will tell us this, but some medicines react to our food, so you should understand what foods cannot be eaten when taking Chinese medicine. When you are taking medicine, you cannot drink soy milk or mutton, pepper and other foods, because these are contrary to the medicine and will affect the effect of the treatment.

When taking medicine, you should generally eat less beans, meat, raw, cold and indigestible foods. In case of febrile diseases or itchy skin, alcohol, spicy, smelly, greasy and irritating foods should be avoided or used with caution. People who take Yang-raising and detoxifying drugs should avoid taking raw, cold, sour and astringent foods. People who take tonic medicines should drink less tea and avoid eating radishes. Poria cocos should not be eaten with vinegar; Amaranth; Rehmannia root and Polygonum multiflorum should not be eaten with onion, garlic, and radish; Smilax glabra should not be eaten with tea; mint should not be eaten with turtle meat; licorice should not be eaten with silver carp; honey is against raw onions, etc.

When taking Chinese medicine to clear internal heat, it is not advisable to eat hot foods such as onions, garlic, pepper, mutton, dog meat, etc.; when taking warming medicine to treat "cold syndrome", raw and cold foods should be avoided. 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.

From the above introduction about what you cannot eat when taking Chinese medicine, I believe you all know that you cannot eat seafood and beans when taking Chinese medicine, and you should choose food according to the characteristics of the medicine. During the period of taking the medicine, we recommend that you eat a light diet and avoid eating irritating and cold foods.