How many doses of Chinese medicine is considered a course of treatment?

When taking Chinese medicine, you must pay attention to taking it while hot, because in this way the medicinal properties can be reflected. If you take it after it cools down, not only will it have no good medicinal effect, but it is also likely to be counterproductive. Chinese medicine generally has a course of treatment, most of which is 3-7 days or 7 to 15 days, and some are 15-20 days. There are many precautions in the process of taking Chinese medicine, which must be understood clearly. This can not only avoid complications after taking the medicine, but also avoid drug failure.

What are the precautions for taking Chinese medicine?

1. Depending on the condition of the disease and the properties of the medicine, adjust the temperature of the decoction to make the medicine better exert its therapeutic effect.

2. Some Chinese medicines can cause vomiting if taken improperly, so be careful. For example, taking Elsholtzia ciliata hot can easily cause vomiting, so it is better to take it cold.

3. Careful care: You need to lie down immediately after taking the diaphoretic medicine. When taking pungent and warm drugs to release the exterior, it is advisable to cover yourself with a quilt to induce slight sweating to help the effect. However, when taking pungent and cool drugs to release the exterior, it is not advisable to cover yourself with a quilt.

4. Observe the therapeutic effect. Anyone who takes diaphoretic drugs should only achieve slight sweating throughout the body, and not profuse sweating, in order to prevent collapse due to excessive sweating (especially in the elderly). If you find that you do not sweat after taking the medicine, you can drink some hot water or hot porridge to help the medicine work.

5. After taking the diaphoretic medicine, do not eat sour food or cold drinks immediately.

6. When taking emetics, the patient should be advised to tighten his abdomen. If he does not vomit immediately after taking the medicine, he can use a feather or finger to induce vomiting, and then drink some warm water or raw egg white. However, if vomiting occurs and does not stop, he can eat some cold porridge or drink cold water.

7. During the medication period, you should avoid eating raw, cold, greasy, and other indigestible, spicy, and irritating foods, so as not to affect the test and the absorption and efficacy of the drugs. Generally speaking, when taking Chinese medicine to clear internal heat, it is not advisable to eat hot foods such as onions, garlic, pepper, mutton, and dog meat; when taking warming medicine to treat "cold symptoms", raw and cold foods should be avoided; patients with asthma and allergic diseases should eat less "hairy foods", such as chicken, mutton, pork head, fish, shrimp, crab, etc.; patients with edema should eat less salty foods; patients with skin diseases and boils should avoid eating shrimp, fish, mutton, etc.

There are also a lot of records in traditional Chinese medicine literature about the taboos on the combination of single Chinese medicine and food. For example, licorice, yellow edible root, platycodon, and black plum should not be taken with pork; mint should not be taken with turtle meat; Poria should not be taken with vinegar; honey should not be taken with raw onions; asparagus should not be taken with carp; Atractylodes should not be taken with garlic, peach, and plum, etc.