Can I drink milk while taking Chinese medicine?

The heyday of Western medicine has passed. Soon after we abandoned the wisdom of our ancestors, we discovered that traditional Chinese medicine can help us cure many diseases with very few side effects. As a result, traditional Chinese medicine has gradually spread from the national to the global level. As we all know, there are many taboos when taking Chinese medicine, such as not eating spicy, greasy and other irritating foods, not eating cold foods, not taking medicine on an empty stomach, etc. So, can I drink milk while taking Chinese medicine?

Milk is very nutritious and contains many kinds of minerals. Why can't you drink a lot of milk while taking Chinese medicine?

After the following introduction, we will have some understanding of this. Milk is certainly a healthy food, but you must pay attention to the environment in which you drink it.

Milk is rich in tyramine. When an enzyme in the body that breaks down tyramine is inhibited by antihypertensive drugs, tyramine will accumulate in large quantities, causing a sudden rise in blood pressure and heart rhythm disorders. In severe cases, it can cause a sustained increase in blood pressure and even a hypertensive crisis. Many hypertensive patients do not know this. Sometimes they use milk instead of warm water to take medicine, or the interval between taking antihypertensive drugs and drinking milk is too short. This danger may occur and often occurs clinically. Not only antihypertensive drugs, but also some cardiotonic drugs, such as digitalis, digoxin and other drugs, should not be drunk in large quantities by patients with heart failure, because the calcium contained in them can enhance the toxicity of digitalis and digoxin, thereby causing cumulative drug poisoning reactions and even accidents.

Beta-blockers used to treat high blood pressure and prevent heart disease should not be taken with fruit juice as a reaction may occur. Taking them with tea may result in medication ineffectiveness or drug poisoning. Aspirin should not be taken with tea as it will react with tannic acid. For patients with coronary heart disease and hypertension, it is safest to take medicine with warm water, and the water temperature should be below 50 to 60 degrees Celsius.

To sum up, you cannot drink milk while taking traditional Chinese medicine. Not only will the body not be able to absorb the nutrients in the milk well, but it will also damage the efficacy of the traditional Chinese medicine. Of course, what we are saying here is that you cannot drink large amounts of milk, but as the name suggests it is still okay to drink small amounts. But you must remember to drink milk half an hour after taking the medicine, until the body has absorbed the medicine.