How to take Chinese medicine twice a day

Choosing the right time to take Chinese medicine will achieve the best therapeutic effect, especially for Chinese medicinal materials. The time to take Chinese herbal medicine depends on the condition and the characteristics of the medicine. Most medicines should be taken half an hour to an hour after a meal.

When Chinese medicine combines and applies Chinese medicinal materials, it pays attention to the "four properties and five flavors", and combines them according to the cold, hot, warm and cool effects of the medicine, and refers to the five flavors of pungent, sweet, sour, bitter and salty to form a prescription. When taking medicine on an empty stomach, cold medicines or medicines with a strong five-flavor focus may cause certain damage to the gastric mucosa.

Different types of Chinese medicinal materials have different time of taking. For liver, kidney, and gastrointestinal diseases, medicines should be taken before meals; for dizziness and throat diseases, medicines should be taken after meals; laxatives, tonics, and dog anthelmintics should be taken on an empty stomach; tranquilizers and sleeping aids should be taken before going to bed.

These are all approximate regulations on the time of taking medicine based on the different medical conditions and the characteristics of the drug's efficacy. When using medications, doctors will adjust the medications according to the patient's physical changes, and the prescription of the medications will not be limited to a certain type of medication. In addition, long-term medication by patients will inevitably cause damage to the gastric mucosa. Therefore, it is recommended that people who drink herbal decoctions for a long time take anti-inflammatory medicines 30 to 60 minutes after a meal to alleviate the direct irritation of the medication to the gastric mucosa.

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But Chinese herbal medicines that should not be consumed during pregnancy:

Niuhuang Pills (a heat-clearing medicine) have a good laxative effect and can easily cause miscarriage in pregnant women.

Rose and Chuanqi (blood-activating drugs) have good blood-activating and stasis-removing effects, but they can easily cause miscarriage and premature birth.

Achyranthes bidentata (a blood-activating medicine) is not good for the physical and mental health of the fetus.

Taking too much salt plantain (a dehumidifying and diuretic medicine) will affect the embryo's circulatory system.

Pregnant women should only take Psoralea corylifolia (a medicine for promoting sexual function) after obtaining instructions from a doctor.

Job's tears (a dehumidifying and diuretic medicine) contains job's tears oil, which will reduce the contraction function of skeletal muscles, have an exciting effect on the uterus, and also lead to oligohydramnios.