Avoidance of food” refers to the dietary taboos when treating diseases and taking medication, and Chinese medicine has placed great emphasis on this, and folklore has accumulated a lot of experience. Practice has proved that all kinds of food have their own properties, which will have certain influence on the occurrence and development of diseases and the therapeutic effect of drugs. When taking Chinese medicine, the food taboos include disease food taboos and medicine food taboos. The disease food taboo is according to the nature of the disease to pay attention to “taboo”, such as damp-heat disease should avoid eating spicy, greasy, fried food, and cold disease should avoid eating cold, cold things. In Chinese medicine, there are even more rules to avoid taking medicine. If you’re not sure what to do, you’ll be able to get a good idea of what to do. Do not drink strong tea when taking Chinese medicine, because strong tea contains a lot of tannic acid, with Chinese medicine will reduce the efficacy, should mainly drink plain water. You should not eat chili pepper when taking Chinese medicine, especially for hot diseases, and you should not eat chili pepper when taking medicine for clearing heat and cooling blood or nourishing Yin and lowering inflammation, otherwise it will make the treatment ineffective or weaken the efficacy. Curd contains a protein enzyme that can counteract the medicinal effects of traditional Chinese medicine, which also requires special “taboos”. When taking herbal decoctions and pills, avoid raw, cold, greasy food. As for the “hairy food” that is often referred to by the old generation, it refers to food that should not be eaten during the treatment period for people suffering from certain diseases. Chinese medicine is divided into six categories according to their properties, such as ginger, garlic and other things that cause heat, shrimp, crab and other things that cause wind. Whether the “hairy things” need to be “taboo”, according to the method of Chinese medicine to identify evidence on taboo. Some asthma patients can eat and drink whatever they want, but during an asthma attack, eggs, milk, fish and shrimp and other high-protein foods become aggravating “hair”, and should be “taboo”. In addition, people suffering from scabies, skin disease avoid eating saltwater fish, shrimp, crab and mutton, pork and other foods; edema disease avoid eating salt; hepatitis patients avoid eating spicy, spicy, greasy.