Can I eat white radish while taking Chinese medicine?

I believe that in the cold winter, many friends will use white radish to stew pork ribs soup at home, especially some middle-aged and elderly friends with constipation. Long-term consumption of white radish can achieve a good effect of moisturizing the intestines and promoting bowel movements. This can also effectively relieve their bloating problem, and white radish is also rich in vitamins. So can you eat white radish while taking Chinese medicine? In order to better solve this problem, please join me in taking a look at it in the next period of time.

There are the following points:

1. Do not drink strong tea when taking Chinese medicine, because tea contains tannic acid, and strong tea contains more tannic acid. When taken with Chinese medicine, it will affect the body's absorption of the effective ingredients in the Chinese medicine and reduce the efficacy. It is not advisable to eat white radish when taking Chinese medicine (except for taking qi-regulating and phlegm-resolving medicines), because white radish has the effects of digestion and breaking qi. Especially when taking tonic Chinese medicines such as ginseng, eating white radish will reduce the effect of the tonic and make it lose its tonic effect and fail to achieve the purpose of treatment.

2. Patients with digestive tract diseases, such as hepatitis and chronic gastroenteritis, should not take garlic when taking spleen-strengthening, stomach-warming and stomach-regulating medicines. Garlic contains allicin, which can stimulate the gastrointestinal mucosa and cause congestion of the mucosa, so the Chinese medicine taken cannot effectively play its therapeutic role. Do not eat chili peppers when taking Chinese medicine, especially for febrile diseases. It is even more inappropriate to eat chili peppers when taking heat-clearing and blood-cooling or yin-nourishing and anti-inflammatory medicines. Chili peppers can reduce the efficacy of the medicine, making the treatment ineffective or weakening the efficacy. When taking Chinese medicine decoctions and pills, it is advisable to avoid raw, cold and greasy foods. Because raw and cold foods stimulate the gastrointestinal tract and affect the gastrointestinal absorption of drugs, greasy foods are not easy 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. 3. People with sores and skin diseases should avoid eating saltwater fish, shrimps, crabs, mutton, pork and other foods; edema patients should avoid eating salt; hepatitis patients should avoid eating spicy, hot and greasy foods; when taking Nepeta, avoid taking fish, shrimps and crabs; when taking Asparagus, avoid taking carp; when taking Atractylodes, avoid taking garlic, etc.

Through the descriptions in the above paragraphs, I believe that most of my friends have already formed their own unique insights and more standard conclusions about whether you can eat white radish while taking Chinese medicine. Of course, I would like to remind everyone that when we are taking medicine, we should try to eat less white radish, because white radish has a slight antidote effect, which will affect the normal efficacy of the medicine.