I don’t know since when, I often have patients ask me if they need to avoid drinking tea during the Chinese medicine; there are also very lovely patients, when they are rechecked, in order to show their respect and cooperation with my treatment, they specifically tell me that even tea is contraindicated during the medication, and they don’t drink a sip of tea. Whenever I heard these words, while moved, I would also be very strange, tea is a conventional traditional drink, ordinary as three meals a day, but also a long history of the use of Chinese medicine ah! In ancient times, it was often used to treat colds, headaches and dizziness, mental discomfort, food stagnation, bad breath, diarrhea, dysentery and other diseases, such as: Song Dynasty “Taiping Sheng Hui Fang” in the treatment of “typhoid headache and strong fever” of “green onion black bean tea”, is used ” 3 stems of white onion (remove the beard), half a tael of black bean, 1 point of thorny mustard, 30 leaves of mint, 5 pieces of gardenia seeds, 3 taels of gypsum (pounded), 3 money of tea powder. Take 2 large jangs of water, decoct 1 large jangs, remove the dregs, put down the tea powder, decoct 4~5 boils more, divide into 2 times to take.” Song-Shifa “Continued Yi Jian Fang” “Ginger Tea San”, with “ginger (and skin, sliced) 10 slices, Chen La tea powder 2 money. Decocted in 2 jan of water until 1 jan, remove the dregs and take hot before eating.” Treatment of “red and white dysentery.” This formula was called “ginger tea decoction” in “Introduction to Medicine” in Ming Dynasty, “ginger tea soup” in “Ancient and Modern Medical Guide”, and “ginger tea drink” in “Compilation of Medical Science” in Qing Dynasty, which shows that this small formula has been used for generations. This small formula has been used for generations. Qing dynasty “experience strange formula” book in the treatment of “wind and headache, heat stroke, vomiting and diarrhea” of “Xian Chuan noon tea”, the group formula used “Chen tea”, and the amount is the largest, is the other Each medicine dose of 20 to 30 times. There is also the Qing-Mei Qizhao series of “Mei’s experimental recipe new compilation” in the “hundred diseases elimination”, is to use: “7 onions, ginger 5 large pieces, Chen tea leaves 3 lines, sugar half a glass of wine, water 2 bowls, decoction, hot, add Chen wine with the amount of drink. Covered with sweat. But the hot weather, should not use more ginger, cold weather, ginger aggravated.” Used to treat “chest and diaphragm fullness, belly and abdominal pain, and wind and fever.” Wait …… why should avoid tea ah?! Only later found some articles online: drinking tea will “antidote”, it is recommended not to drink … We look at the medicinal properties of tea: “taste bitter, sweet, cool. To the heart, lung, stomach, kidney meridian.” It has “clearing the head and eyes, eliminating thirst, eliminating food, resolving phlegm, diuretic, detoxification.” The role of (quoted from the Chinese Materia Medica) tea to bitter taste, so the damp, phlegm, food accumulation caused by the head and eyes unclear, head swelling and pain, chest and epigastric stuffiness, sticky mouth, micro swelling, urinary discomfort, etc., such patients taking Chinese medicine, you can feel free to drink tea, while drinking also does not matter. If the eyes are red, hot in the mouth, yellow urine and heat and fire, it is recommended to drink green tea; if there is no heat or cold, it is recommended to drink black tea series. Tea is bitter, dry, so the body type is thin, difficult to sleep, irritable, dry throat, dry mouth and less fluid, the tongue is thin and less moss, etc. Yin deficiency of people, most of these physical people originally do not like tea, usually do not drink tea, so there is no question of contraindication. In addition to the above two types of cases, such as physical deficiency in the use of tonic Chinese medicine, qi depression in the use of qi Chinese medicine, blood stasis in the use of blood Chinese medicine, etc., usually have the habit of drinking tea, also do not have to deliberately avoid tea, just stagger 1-2 hours with the time of drinking Chinese medicine is also enough, the two do not meet, there is no “chemical reaction”, “decompression”, The problem of “antidote”. In fact, the question of whether it is appropriate to drink tea when taking Chinese medicine, not in the “chemical reaction” or “antidote”, but in the individual differences. The best way is to pay attention to your own instinctive feelings, after getting sick “the body will tell you”, want to drink tea? Want to drink what tea? Relax, follow your own “feelings” to go!