Foods to avoid when taking Chinese medicine

Food and Chinese medicine, like herbs, have the characteristics of “four gas and five flavors”, so in order to avoid adverse reactions to food on the drug, you need to eat Chinese medicine during a certain food taboos, specifically in the following areas: 1. Avoid greasy, such as: fried chicken, braised meat, hamburger, etc., this kind of food oil meat, difficult to digest, easy to help dampness and phlegm, affecting the absorption of the active ingredients of Chinese medicine. 2. Avoid spicy, such as: leeks, ginger, chili peppers, wine, etc., this kind of food is pungent, warm and dispersive, if patients with hot constitution eat, it is easy to constipation, sore throat, epistaxis (nosebleed) and other symptoms of “on fire”. 3. Avoid cold, such as: ice cream, raw fruits and vegetables, beverages, etc., this kind of food taste cold, for the cold constitution of the patient is easy to injure the body’s yang qi, impede the spleen and stomach transportation and absorption, easy to generate dampness, the emergence of the lack of appetite for food and drink, loose stools (feces sparse and unshapely) diarrhea and other symptoms. 4. Avoid strong tea, tea contains tannic acid, can be combined with some Chinese medicine to produce precipitation, thus affecting the efficacy of the drug. 5. Avoid seafood, fish and shrimp products, this kind of food is cold and salty, and contains foreign proteins, which may trigger allergic reactions, and more food is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach. Each patient’s symptoms are different, the need to avoid food is not the same, so you need to ask a professional doctor for identification, under the guidance of the doctor to standardize the use of medication, accurate understanding of dietary taboos.