Can I eat fruit while taking Chinese medicine?

In our daily life, many people like to take Chinese medicine to regulate their bodies. The side effects of Chinese medicine are much smaller than those of Western medicine, and the eradication effect is also very good. However, many people like to eat some fruit after taking Chinese medicine. So can you eat fruit after taking Chinese medicine? What are the precautions after taking Chinese medicine? Let's take a look.

It is not advisable to eat fruit after taking Chinese medicine. It is best to wait for a while after taking Chinese medicine. Because the fruit is raw, it is not easy to digest it all at once after eating, so it will affect the absorption of traditional Chinese medicine.

Choosing the correct time to take Chinese medicine will achieve the best therapeutic effect, especially for Chinese medicine. The time to take Chinese medicine should be determined according to the condition and the nature of the medicine. Most medicines should be taken half an hour to an hour after a meal.

When Chinese medicine practitioners use Chinese medicine in combination, they pay attention to the "four properties and five flavors", and formulate prescriptions based on the cold, hot, warm, and cool properties of the medicine, and the five flavors of pungent, sweet, sour, bitter, and salty. When taking medicine on an empty stomach, cold medicines or medicines with strong flavors may cause certain damage to the gastric mucosa.

Different types of Chinese medicine require different times of taking. For liver, kidney, and intestinal diseases, it is advisable to take medicine before meals; for dizziness and throat diseases, it is advisable to take medicine after meals; laxatives, tonics, and anthelmintics should be taken on an empty stomach; sedatives should be taken before bedtime.

These are general requirements for the time of taking medication based on different conditions and the characteristics of the drug's effects. When taking medication, the doctor will adjust the medication according to the patient's physical changes. The prescription will not be limited to a certain type of medicine. In addition, long-term medication will inevitably cause damage to the gastric mucosa. Therefore, it is recommended that people who drink Chinese herbal decoctions for a long time take the medicine within 30 to 60 minutes after a meal to reduce the direct stimulation of the drug on the gastric mucosa.

Precautions after taking Chinese medicine

1. Do not drink strong tea when taking Chinese medicine, because tea contains tannic acid. Strong tea contains more tannic acid. When taken with Chinese medicine, it will affect the body's absorption of the active ingredients in the medicine and reduce its efficacy.

2. It is not advisable to eat radish when taking Chinese medicine (except for taking qi-regulating and phlegm-resolving medicine); patients with digestive tract diseases such as hepatitis and chronic gastroenteritis should avoid eating garlic when taking spleen-strengthening, stomach-warming and stomach-regulating medicines.

3. Do not eat chili peppers when taking Chinese medicine, especially if you have a fever. When taking Chinese medicine decoctions and pills, avoid eating raw, cold, and greasy foods. Because raw and cold foods stimulate the gastrointestinal tract and affect the gastrointestinal absorption of drugs, greasy foods are difficult to digest and absorb, and greasy foods mixed with drugs can hinder the gastrointestinal absorption of the active ingredients of drugs, thereby reducing the efficacy; people with furuncles and skin diseases should avoid eating saltwater fish, shrimp, crabs, mutton, beef and other foods;

Patients with edema should avoid eating salt; patients with hepatitis should avoid eating spicy, hot and greasy food; when taking Schizonepeta tenuifolia, avoid eating fish, shrimp and crab; when taking Asparagus cochinchinensis, avoid eating carp; when taking Atractylodes macrocephala, avoid eating garlic, etc.