In order to ensure that the efficacy of Chinese medicine can play a better therapeutic role, you need to abstain from taking some food when taking Chinese medicine, and you should usually pay attention to the following points: 1. Do not drink strong tea when taking Chinese medicine, because tea contains tannic acid, which will affect the absorption of the active ingredients in Chinese medicine when taken together with Chinese medicine and reduce the efficacy. 2, should not eat radish when taking Chinese medicine (except for taking qi and phlegm medicine), because radish has the effect of eliminating food and breaking gas, especially when taking ginseng and other tonic Chinese medicine, eating radish will reduce the effect of tonic medicine and affect the tonic effect of the drug. 3, digestive tract diseases such as hepatitis, chronic gastroenteritis patients, when taking spleen, warm stomach and stomach medicine, forbidden to take garlic, garlic contains allicin can stimulate the gastrointestinal mucosa, so that the Chinese medicine taken can not effectively play a therapeutic role. 4. When taking Chinese medicine decoction and pills, it is advisable to avoid raw, cold, greasy. Because raw and cold food stimulates the gastrointestinal tract and affects its absorption of the drug, and greasy food is not easy to digest and absorb, and the mixture of greasy food and drug can impede the absorption of the active ingredients of the drug by the gastrointestinal tract, thus reducing the therapeutic effect. In addition, those who suffer from sores and skin diseases should not eat fish, shrimp, crab and mutton, pork and other foods. Patients with edema should not eat salt. Hepatitis patients should not eat spicy, spicy, greasy.