Is it forbidden to eat mutton when taking Chinese medicine?

Chinese medicine practitioners mostly prescribe traditional Chinese medicine, which needs to be boiled before drinking, and has more contraindications than western medicine. For example, you cannot eat spicy food or drink alcohol while taking Chinese medicine. Mutton is a kind of meat that people are familiar with. Mutton is a kind of food that can cause inflammation and has a strong smell of mutton. So do we need to avoid eating mutton when taking traditional Chinese medicine?

Can I eat mutton while taking Chinese medicine?

1. Mutton is a kind of meat that is hot in nature. Regular consumption of this meat can replenish energy for our body. At the same time, mutton can also replenish essence and blood, relieve lung deficiency, and improve fatigue. However, drinking Chinese medicine and eating mutton will not produce ideal treatment results.

2. Do not eat irritating foods when taking Chinese medicine. The scope of irritating foods is very broad, and sometimes even meat and fish are considered irritating foods. Therefore, you cannot eat mutton while taking Chinese medicine.

3. In addition, mutton has a fishy smell. Generally, Chinese medicine has an aromatic smell, especially aromatic dehumidifying and aromatic qi-regulating medicines, which contain a large amount of volatile oils to exert their therapeutic effects. These aromatic substances are the most incompatible with fishy smells. If you do not avoid fishy smell when taking Chinese medicine, it will often affect the efficacy of the medicine.

4. Friends who take Chinese medicine also need to stay away from raw, cold and spicy foods, as such foods will affect the therapeutic effects of our medicines.

How long after taking Chinese medicine can I eat mutton?

Eating mutton immediately after taking Chinese medicine will have a certain impact on the medicinal properties of the medicine, so it is not recommended to eat mutton after taking Chinese medicine. Generally speaking, decocted Chinese medicine is in liquid form and is digested and absorbed relatively quickly in the body. You can eat mutton 2 hours after drinking the Chinese medicine.

Taboos of taking Chinese medicine

Never drink strong tea when taking Chinese medicine, because tea contains tannic acid. If taken at the same time as Chinese medicine, it will affect the body's absorption of the active ingredients in the medicine and reduce its efficacy.

Never eat radish while taking Chinese medicine, because radish has the effects of helping food and breaking up gas. Especially when taking tonic Chinese medicine such as ginseng, eating radish will not only reduce the effect of the tonic, but may also affect the tonic effect of the medicine.

Patients with digestive tract diseases such as hepatitis and chronic gastroenteritis should never eat garlic while taking spleen-strengthening, stomach-warming and stomach-regulating medicines. Because garlic contains allicin, which can irritate the gastrointestinal mucosa, making the Chinese medicine taken unable to effectively play its therapeutic role.