If you need to take Chinese medicine before meals, it is best to eat half an hour after drinking Chinese medicine.
After drinking Chinese medicine, it needs to be digested and absorbed before it can exert the real effect of medicine in the body. If you eat immediately after drinking Chinese medicine, the food enters the stomach and intestines, which will affect the absorption of the medicine by the stomach and intestines, and affect the therapeutic effect of Chinese medicine. Moreover, each kind of food has different characteristics that may conflict with the medicinal properties of Chinese medicine. Therefore, do not eat immediately after drinking Chinese medicine, the best interval of half an hour.
Generally, half an hour after drinking Chinese medicine, the medicinal properties of Chinese medicine are basically absorbed, then you can eat normally. However, depending on the type of medicine, it is advisable to consult a professional Chinese medicine practitioner in detail and listen to his/her advice.
After the Chinese medicine doctor has prescribed the Chinese medicine, the patient should also learn in detail about the precautions and contraindications for drinking Chinese medicine, and should take the medicine according to the doctor’s advice.