Many people will ask if they need to avoid food when they see a doctor. Especially when taking traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine practitioners often require a dietary taboo, such as avoiding spicy, stimulating, cold or greasy food, etc., so the dietary taboo is in the period of taking medication or how many days before and after taking traditional Chinese medicine? Or in the future always have to abstain from food? In fact, Chinese medicine is concerned about avoiding food, there are two main reasons: First, Chinese medicine is concerned about the identification of disease, and the second is that Chinese medicine has four qi and five flavors, and food also has four qi and five flavors. Diseases have cold, heat, deficiency and solidity, even if the same disease, but also due to the patient’s physique and have cold, heat, deficiency and solidity of the difference. Therefore, Chinese medicine practitioners not only use drugs in treatment to remedy the defects, but also avoid food or “partiality” in diet to enhance the therapeutic effect of drugs or reduce their side effects. In this sense, “avoiding food” is actually part of Chinese medicine treatment. In clinical practice, we find that some foods also have four qi and five flavors similar to drugs, in order to avoid the adverse effects of food on the drug, so the Chinese medicine “taboo” said. Contraindications include two parts: one is based on the nature of the disease and contraindications, belonging to the disease contraindications. Such as a variety of hot evidence, people on fire and allergic diseases, should avoid eating spicy, fat and sweet, greasy, fried food; and cold evidence of disease, should avoid eating cold or cold food; asthma attack, avoid eating eggs, milk, fish, shrimp and other high-protein foods; hemorrhoids, skin disease, avoid eating seafood, mutton, dog meat and other hairy things; edema patients, avoid eating salt; hepatitis patients, avoid eating spicy, greasy, and so on. Such as psoriasis patients should avoid eating wine and spicy beef and mutton during the progress period. Urticaria patients should avoid eating fish, shrimp and crab, eczema patients avoid eating wine and spicy and mango pineapple and other fruits. Secondly, according to the characteristics of the drugs served and contraindications and contraindications, belonging to the medicinal contraindications. Such as ginseng, avoid radish; service turtle armor, avoid amaranth, mint; service Poria, avoid vinegar and so on. In addition, any Chinese medicine should not drink strong tea, because strong tea contains a lot of tannin, and Chinese medicine with the service will reduce the efficacy of the main should drink plain water. As for how many days should be appropriate to avoid food, it depends on the condition. Infectious diseases, in the medication period to a week after the recovery of colds, should adhere to the taboo; internal injuries and miscellaneous diseases, chronic diseases, in the medication period to a month after the recovery, to adhere to the taboo; some diseases require lifelong taboo, such as diabetes lifelong taboo sweets, life-long taboo on alcohol, liver disease, and so on. But then again, there is no need to over-expand the taboos, this can not eat, that can not eat, what can not eat, the body is very weak, how can the disease be healed quickly? At the same time, excessive taboos also cause difficulties in the use of medication, the body is weak, digestive capacity is low, give any medicine are not effective. Therefore, my point of view is that during the period of illness, as long as the diet does not contradict the nature of the disease and the nature of the medicine, does not contradict the digestive function of the spleen and stomach, eat whatever you like to eat. In addition, it should be noted that, during the period of illness not only to pay attention to the taboo, pay more attention to the “opening”, especially some chronic diseases, “opening” than “taboo” is much more important. Because life is a process of material metabolism, it needs to constantly push the new, the premise is to require people to constantly “open” to take in nutrients. As the saying goes, “three parts disease, seven parts nourishment”, this is the meaning. The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine illustrates this point very well, “big poison cure, ten to its six; small poison cure, ten to its seven; often poison cure, ten to its eight; non-toxic cure, ten to its nine; grain, meat, fruit and vegetables, food and nourishment to the end of the.”