As the saying goes, “If you don’t avoid taking medicine, you waste the doctor’s hand.” It means that it is very important to avoid eating while taking Chinese medicine. What is taboo? The taboo is a feature of Chinese medicine that has been emphasized by doctors for many generations, including the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine, the Treatise on Typhoid Fever, and the Golden Horoscope. Traditional Chinese medicine is very concerned about the need to pay attention to dietary taboos when taking Chinese medicine. Here are some general knowledge about avoidance of mouth. First, avoid cold. Cold food, cold nature, easy to stimulate the gastrointestinal tract, is not conducive to gastrointestinal absorption of drugs. Especially in the treatment of some cold disease, used mostly with warm meridians, dispel cold and damp, spleen warming effect of Chinese medicine, must avoid chilled food, drinks, and herbal tea, cold soup. All kinds of fruits belong to the cold category. The second is to avoid spicy. Spicy food, the nature of more warm and dry, easy to hurt the fire. During the period of taking Chinese medicine to detoxify heat, nourish Yin and increase fluid, nourish Yin and cool blood, you must avoid spicy food, such as onion, garlic, pepper, cilantro, garlic table, mutton, dog meat, etc. Third, avoid greasy. Greasy food, sticky, easy to help wet phlegm, and greasy food and drugs mixed together can hinder the absorption of the active ingredients of the drug in the stomach and intestines, thus reducing the effectiveness. Especially the spleen and stomach weakness, phlegm heavy patients, for hypertension, coronary heart disease, hyperlipidemia, and obese patients must avoid eating animal fat, red meat and other greasy things. Fourth, avoid strong tea. Generally do not drink strong tea when taking Chinese medicine, because tea contains tannic acid, and will affect the body’s absorption of the active ingredients in Chinese medicine, affecting the effectiveness of the treatment. Such as the usual habit of drinking tea, it is best to drink tea two hours after taking the medicine. Fifth, avoid radish. Because the radish has the effect of eliminating food, breaking gas, especially when taking ginseng, astragalus and other tonic Chinese medicine, eat radish will weaken the ginseng and other tonic effect. Practice has proved that there is some reason to avoid the mouth. Because we usually eat vegetables, fruits, meat, etc. have their own properties, on the occurrence of disease, development and the therapeutic effect of drugs, can have a certain impact. Such as the Qing dynasty ZhangXingYun in the regulation of disease diet discernment “said:” the patient’s diet, in order to nourish the stomach, to promote the power of medicine, so the diet is appropriate enough for the help of medicine and bait, out of place is the opposite of medicine and bait for the enemy.”