Taboos of taking traditional Chinese medicine for removing dampness

If the human body has serious moisture problems, it is easy to cause joint diseases. Therefore, it should be avoided in time, or if moisture has occurred, it should be treated. There are many medicines to treat dampness, but it is a complex disease and it is not easy to recover from it. Long-term medication may cause side effects, so you should pay attention to using Chinese medicine for treatment. So what are the contraindications of drinking Chinese medicine for removing dampness?

Six taboos that must be paid attention to when taking Chinese medicine

1. Avoid radish

Experts remind that whether you are taking Chinese or Western medicine, you should try to avoid eating radishes while taking the medicine, otherwise the medicinal properties will be greatly affected. The reason why many people’s condition does not improve after taking a large amount of medication is largely related to improper diet. Especially when taking Chinese medicine, you should not eat radish, except for some medicines for regulating qi and resolving phlegm. The reason why you cannot eat radish during this period is because radish has the effects of digesting food and breaking up gas, especially when taking tonic Chinese medicine such as ginseng and astragalus.

2. Avoid eating raw or cold food

While taking Chinese medicine, you should try to avoid eating all kinds of raw and cold foods. Traditional Chinese medicine points out that raw and cold foods are mostly cold in nature and very difficult to digest after consumption. Moreover, raw and cold foods can irritate the stomach and intestines after consumption. In this case, if you take Chinese medicine immediately, it will seriously irritate the gastrointestinal tract, thereby affecting the gastrointestinal absorption of the drug. Therefore, special attention should be paid to avoid eating raw and cold foods when taking Chinese medicine to treat "cold symptoms", such as medicines for warming the meridians and unblocking the collaterals, and medicines for dispelling cold and dampness.

3. Avoid spicy food

People who are taking traditional Chinese medicine also need to avoid various spicy foods. Otherwise, not only will it weaken the medicinal properties, it may even react with the medicine and seriously endanger human health. Traditional Chinese medicine points out that hot and spicy foods are mostly warm in nature, consume qi and stir up fire, so you should try to avoid these foods when taking Chinese medicines for clearing heat and eliminating toxins, nourishing yin and increasing fluids, cooling blood and nourishing yin, or you should also try to avoid eating spicy foods during the treatment of carbuncles and ulcers.

4. Avoid foods that cause irritation

This type of food is all wind-inducing, phlegm-generating and fire-stimulating. Since the degree to which the disease selects for food varies, the effects of this disease will also be different. Such foods include mushrooms, champignons, bamboo shoots, mustard greens, pumpkin, rooster meat, pork head, sow meat, etc. For example, patients with hyperactivity of liver yang and internal liver wind should not eat rooster meat and pork head meat; patients with skin diseases such as furuncles, boils, sores and carbuncles should not eat shiitake mushrooms, bamboo shoots, rooster meat, pork head meat and sow meat, otherwise it will accelerate redness, swelling and pus formation; people with gastrointestinal diseases should not eat pumpkin, because pumpkin contains sugar, eating too much will produce more acid, which will irritate the gastrointestinal tract. In view of this, "fa" can be said to, to a large extent, to promote the deterioration of the disease.

5. Avoid greasy food

All kinds of greasy foods should also be avoided while taking Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine points out that greasy foods are sticky, and can also promote dampness and phlegm, and cause loose bowels and stagnant gas. After consumption, it will mix with the medicine and hinder the gastrointestinal absorption of the active ingredients of the medicine, thereby reducing the efficacy. Especially patients with weak spleen and stomach, indigestion, hypertension, coronary heart disease and other diseases should eat less of this kind of food in their daily life.

6. Avoid fishy and smelly food

Generally, Chinese medicines have aromatic smells, especially aromatic dehumidifying and aromatic qi-regulating medicines, which contain a large amount of volatile oils to exert their therapeutic effects. These aromatic substances are most incompatible with fishy smells. If you do not avoid fishy smell when taking Chinese medicine, it will often affect the efficacy of the medicine. Such as the fishy smell of fish, shrimp, and seafood, and the mutton smell of cattle and mutton. Patients with allergic dermatitis such as allergic asthma, allergic rhinitis, boils, eczema, urticaria, etc. must avoid eating fishy and smelly foods while taking Chinese medicine.

How to drink Chinese medicine

1. Warm and serve

Many Chinese medicines are taken warm. After decocting, leave them for a while and drink them when they are neither hot nor cold. Such as mild tonic medicines.

2. Hot service

If you suffer from a cold, it is best to take Chinese medicine while it is hot so that the sweat in your body can evaporate. The same is true for medicines that dispel cold and unblock meridians.