Taboos of eating Chinese medicine pills

If people feel some discomfort in their body, they can take some Chinese herbal medicines, which can eliminate the lesions from the root. However, there are still many taboos when taking Chinese herbal pills, such as bleeding. The most important thing is that Chinese medicine must not be taken with sugary foods, as this will reduce the efficacy of the medicine and make it unable to exert its efficacy.

As the saying goes, "If you don't control your diet while taking medicine, you will ruin the doctor's work." Dietary restrictions refer to dietary taboos when taking medicine or treating illness. Dietary restriction is a characteristic of TCM treatment, and physicians have always attached great importance to it. Relevant content is also widely found in medical books such as "The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine", "Treatise on Febrile Diseases", and "Golden Chamber". Practice has proved that there is some truth in abstaining from certain foods. Because the common foods we eat on a daily basis, such as fish, meat, chicken, eggs, vegetables, fruits, sauces, vinegar, tea, and wine, all have their own properties, which have a certain impact on the occurrence and development of diseases and the therapeutic effects of drugs.

(5) Chinese medicine should not be taken with sugar

Some people add sugar to Chinese medicine when taking it because the decoction is bitter and difficult to swallow. In this regard, relevant experts point out that some Chinese medicines are not suitable for taking after adding sugar. Adding sugar reduces the bitterness of the medicine while also reducing its efficacy.

According to experts, Chinese medicine has four properties: cold, hot, warm and cool, and five flavors: pungent, sweet, sour, bitter and salty. Among them, pungent can disperse, sweet can slow down, sour can contract, bitter can astringe, and salty can soften. Chinese medicines with different tastes have different medicinal effects. Adding sugar to some Chinese medicines will change the medicinal properties of the bitter decoctions and affect their efficacy.

Some bitter medicines can stimulate the peripheral nerves and reflexively secrete digestive juices such as saliva and gastric juice to help digestion and promote appetite. If you put a lot of sugar in the medicine, it will completely cover up the bitter taste and lose its stomachic effect.

In addition, the chemical composition of traditional Chinese medicine is generally complex. Sugar, especially brown sugar, contains more iron, calcium and other elements. Once combined with proteins, tannins and other components in traditional Chinese medicine, it will cause a chemical reaction, causing some effective ingredients in the medicine to coagulate and denature, which also affects the efficacy of the medicine to a certain extent.