Can I take Chinese medicine during the dog days?

When we feel unwell, we generally need to regulate our body, and Chinese medicine regulation is one of these methods. Many people say that you cannot take Chinese medicine during the dog days, because they think the weather is too hot and bad for the body. In fact, diseases have yin and yang, and medicines, especially Chinese medicine, also have yin and yang, and cold and hot properties. So, can you take Chinese medicine during the dog days? Let’s learn more about it through the following introduction.

It is wrong to say that you cannot take Chinese medicine during the dog days. Because diseases are divided into yin and yang, and into cold and heat, and medicines are also divided into yin and yang, and into cold and heat. When diagnosing and prescribing medicine, Chinese medicine practitioners will choose the appropriate prescription based on the yin and yang, cold and heat properties of the patient's disease. Through reasonable addition and subtraction of drugs, the entire prescription will be consistent with the yin and yang properties of the patient's disease in terms of cold, heat, warmth and coolness. To put it simply, when the weather is hot or the patient suffers from certain fever symptoms, the Chinese medicine practitioner will add some cold medicines to the prescription and remove some warm medicines, so as to achieve the therapeutic effect of "treating heat with cold and cold with heat". Moreover, the best time to treat certain cold diseases, such as dysmenorrhea, abdominal pain, and joint pain caused by stagnation of cold evil, or cold pain in the lower limbs and diarrhea caused by deficiency of yang qi, is precisely the dog days of summer.

As for some people saying that it is not suitable to drink Chinese medicine during the dog days of summer, it may be because they consider the problem that Chinese medicine is not easy to preserve!

What is the best temperature to drink Chinese medicine?

Experts believe that when taking most Chinese herbal decoctions orally, the best temperature is 30℃~35℃, and the bitterness is the lightest. If taken cold, it can easily cause gastrointestinal irritation, leading to vomiting, abdominal pain, etc. At this time, you can rub your tongue with ginger, or drink hot ginger soup to relieve it.

Through the above introduction, we now know that we can take Chinese medicine during the dog days. We need to regulate our body after getting sick. Chinese medicine regulation is not specific to the dog days, and it is also particularly beneficial for clearing away heat and relieving summer heat during the dog days. However, when taking Chinese medicine during the dog days, we must pay attention to the storage method of the medicine to prevent it from deteriorating.