How do I choose when to take my herbal medicine?

Tang Liquid Materia Medica: “medicine gas and food gas do not want to meet, food gas is eliminated to take medicine, medicine gas is eliminated to eat, the so-called food before and after food to cover the righteousness in which also”. It can be seen that the ancients on the relationship between drugs and food and the mutual influence, have a deep understanding, and has accumulated a wealth of experience. Qing Dynasty famous medical doctor Xu Ling tire once said: “the disease of the healing is not healed, not only the party must be in the disease, although the party in the disease and service is not its method, it is not special merit, but harmful ……” points out that the correct way to take Chinese medicine can accelerate the improvement of the condition, and the wrong way to take The correct way of taking Chinese medicine can accelerate the improvement of the condition, while the wrong way of taking Chinese medicine can make the condition deteriorate. It can be seen that the correct way to take Chinese medicine, directly affecting the therapeutic effect of the drug, so taking Chinese medicine should pay attention to the following aspects of the matter. ⒈ so that the role of the drug and the body rhythm synchronization and coordination that is Yang medicine used in Yang long time, Yin medicine used in Yin main time, ascending medicine for ascending, descending medicine used in descending time. Peck according to the disease site to determine the time to give medicine, such as the “Shennong Ben Cao Jing Preface”: “the disease in the chest above the septum, the first food and medicine (that is, after the meal); the disease in the heart below the abdomen, the first medicine and food (that is, before the meal); disease in the limbs of the bloodstream, it is desirable to fasting in the first day; disease in the bone marrow, it is desirable to be full and the night”. 3 once the disease is found, timely administration of drugs, and according to the condition of the control of time intervals, such as the “Thousand Gold Formula”: “Where the tonics can not be avoided in the morning and night time and day of the lucky and lucky, feel sick in a moment, that is appropriate to treat, not waiting for the morning and evening, it is easy to heal carry on.” And “dysentery is not bad, with the plum Huanglian honey pill day three night two”, “malaria cold and heat day and then three hair, Hengshan licorice soup away from each other, such as a person traveling five miles a service”, “when the line of wind poisoning … …Leaky Lu Lian Qiao Tang is five miles away from each other for a long time to serve more”. The choice of time to take different categories of drugs ⒈ No special provisions of the general oral medication: a day’s amount divided into 2 to 3 times, in the morning, evening or breakfast, lunch and dinner after 0.5 to 1 hour each. Peck tonic drugs: general tonic drugs should be taken before meals to facilitate absorption; yin tonic drugs should be taken once at night to improve the efficacy. 3) Critical medication: should be given in a timely manner, in order to ensure that the drug continues to play, the required amount of medicine will be given in separate doses as appropriate. Exopathogens: should be given in time to avoid the disease from the surface; if the condition permits, sweating and exopathogens should be given at the time of Yang division before noon (about 11 o’clock), which can conform to the rising and floating of Yang Qi, and can help the medicine to drive away the evil and eliminate the benefits of the disease. Be careful with sedative and sleeping drugs: give them 1 to 2 hours before bedtime. Selected astringent and emmenagogue: given once in the morning and once in the evening. Borrow Malarials: 3 to 5 hours before an attack. To reduce water retention: give early in the morning on an empty stomach. However, in severe cases, this should not be the rule and the time of administration should be determined according to the condition. Sneakers antidiarrheal drugs: given in a timely manner, served again on time, stopping the service. Lubricating and laxative drugs: take on an empty stomach or semi-empty stomach to facilitate the removal of stagnation in the stomach and intestines. Application form for anthelmintic drugs: given in the morning on an empty stomach or at night before bedtime. Provide the following medicines: take them on an empty stomach or on an empty stomach in the morning or at night before bedtime. Dietary drugs for throat diseases: take them frequently at any time, and swallow them slowly, so that the medicine can make full contact with the diseased parts and achieve rapid effect. Expectorant drugs: take before meals, so that the drug stimulates the gastric mucosa, indirectly prompting an increase in bronchial secretion, thereby diluting the phlegm, to facilitate the discharge of phlegm. Vice President of asthma medication: 2 hours before the asthma attack, in order to make the drug effective asthma. Traveling stomach medicine: for appetizing before meals; for digestion and stagnation should be served after meals. If the drug is used to reduce gastric acid, it should be taken before meal to enhance the protective effect on gastric mucosa. In addition, it is also a good idea to take it after the meal in order to ease the stimulation of the gastric mucosa. The pectoral vomiting medicine: it is advisable to take it early in the morning, before lunch. Because “Pingdan to the middle of the day, the day of the sun, the sun in the sun, the weather in the upper, popularity is also in the upper ……, so it is appropriate to early rather than night”.