What foods can't you eat when taking Chinese medicine?

Traditional Chinese medicine is a very good way to treat diseases, but it is not Western medicine, and there are not many dietary restrictions. Traditional Chinese medicine contains many Chinese medicinal materials, and some of them conflict with certain foods. You must pay attention to this aspect when drinking Chinese medicine. Because in the process of boiling Chinese medicine, many ingredients of Chinese medicinal materials slowly seep into the medicine soup. Once taken with some incompatible foods, it is easy to be poisoned.

1. Raw and cold food

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.

2. Foods that cause hair growth

"Fa" can be said to, to a large extent, to promote the worsening of the disease. This type of food is all wind-inducing, phlegm-generating and fire-stimulating. Since the degree to which the disease selects for food varies, the effects of this disease will also be different. 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.

3. Fishy foods

Most of these foods are 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.

What is introduced above is that when taking Chinese medicine, you must not eat such food, because eating too much food and fruit together with Chinese medicine can easily cause physical discomfort and even lead to a person's life threat. There are many taboos in Chinese medicine, and this issue needs to be studied carefully. I hope everyone will avoid eating the above food when taking Chinese medicine.