Drinking Chinese medicine precautions are taking time, taking medicine dietary taboos, etc., specific should follow the doctor’s instructions to take.
1. Dosing time. Soup generally take a daily dose, decoction 2 times were taken, the interval between the 2 times about 4 ~ 6 hours.
Taken before or after meals mainly lies in the site and nature of the lesion. If the disease is below the chest and diaphragm, such as liver, stomach and other organs of the disease, it is advisable to take before meals, to facilitate the digestion and absorption of drugs. Generally speaking, there should be an interval of about 1 hour between the time of taking medicine and eating, so as not to affect the efficacy of the medicine.
2. Dietary contraindications. During the period of taking medicine, generally should avoid eating greasy, cold, fishy, irritating food. Different diseases, dietary taboos are also different. Such as heat disease should avoid eating fried, spicy, greasy products, cold disease should avoid eating cold food, cold drinks.