What can I eat with Chinese medicine?

When there are some health problems in the body, we all know that taking medicine is essential, because only by focusing on scientific treatment can the harm of these diseases be reduced. In addition to the more familiar Western medicine, Chinese medicine has always been a treatment method that many people trust. However, when taking Chinese medicine, everyone should also pay attention to all dietary taboos in daily life to avoid causing more impact.

Pay attention to dietary taboos while taking medication in order to prevent the medication from being affected and weakening its efficacy; or to avoid offsetting the function of the medication. In addition, it can also avoid certain adverse effects.

1. When taking Chinese medicine, it is advisable to eat less beans, meat, greasy, cold and some difficult to digest foods, so as not to increase the patient's digestive burden. Children and the elderly should eat less of these foods while taking Chinese medicine because they have weak spleen and stomach and poor digestive function.

2. When taking Chinese medicine for colds, you should avoid eating raw, cold or acidic foods, because they have astringent effects and will affect the medicine's ability to relieve symptoms and induce sweating.

3. When taking traditional Chinese medicine for clearing heat and reducing fever, alcohol, meat, fish and spicy food should be avoided. Because alcohol and spicy food are hot in nature, and fish and meat have the effect of causing greasiness, heat and phlegm, once eaten they will make the condition worse.

4. When taking warming and tonic Chinese medicine, you need to avoid eating mung beans and radishes; do not drink tea, because mung beans, radishes, and tea are all cool in nature and can reduce the warming and tonic effects of the medicine.

The above are some dietary taboos that you need to know about while taking Chinese medicine. I wonder if you pay attention to these issues in normal times. If you want to use Chinese medicine to help yourself treat and solve the harm of some diseases, we must pay attention to these effective treatments and solutions, and we must also abide by these principles while taking the medicine.