Do I need to drink Chinese medicine if I feel hot after taking it?

When the body is in sub-health, most people will use Chinese medicine to regulate it. Of course, some people also use diet therapy. It will be more effective to use both methods together. But do some people who feel hot after taking Chinese medicine still need to drink it? If you experience heat after taking Chinese medicine, you need to consider several aspects. First, you should pay attention to the fact that some foods cannot be eaten, such as seafood, beef, mutton, etc., and you cannot eat spicy food. In addition, you should also pay attention to whether drinking Chinese medicine can play a conditioning role.

1. Avoid certain foods when taking Chinese medicine:

Heat-clearing medicine avoids pepper

Chili peppers will weaken the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicines that clear heat and cool blood. If you are taking bitter and cold medicines such as Coptis chinensis, Rhubarb, Scutellaria baicalensis, or cold and cool medicines such as Peony Root, Platycodon grandiflorum, Mulberry Leaf, Forsythia suspensa, Phellodendron chinense, Honeysuckle, etc.

Avoid white radish in warm tonic Chinese medicine

Whether raw or cooked, radish has the effect of promoting qi circulation, but care should be taken to avoid using it with tonic medicines. Ginseng replenishes qi, while radish promotes qi movement, lowers qi, and breaks up qi. If radish and ginseng are eaten at the same time, the qi-replenishing effect of ginseng may be weakened.

Do not drink cold drinks when taking warm medicines

Therefore, many people like to drink cold drinks even in the winter. This may cause people's gastrointestinal tract to become weak without realizing it. Eating too much cold food will lower the temperature of the stomach and make it difficult to digest food.

2. What can’t you eat when taking Chinese medicine?

1. Spicy food

Such foods include onions, garlic, leeks, ginger, wine, peppers, etc. Peppers are hot in nature. If people with fever, constipation, redness and other heat symptoms eat them, it will inevitably aggravate the symptoms of "getting angry", thus offsetting the effects of heat-clearing, cooling blood and nourishing yin drugs. Therefore, patients with heat syndrome should not eat peppers when seeing a Chinese doctor.

2. Greasy food

This type of food includes animal fats and solid foods that are fried or deep-fried. Greasy food can damage the spleen and stomach, so it should be avoided by those suffering from external diseases, jaundice, and diarrhea. Fried foods are hard, hot and difficult to digest. People with gastrointestinal diseases or those suffering from "internal heat" should avoid eating them.

3. Raw and cold food

Raw and cold food refers to raw food that has not been cooked and is relatively cool. It also includes what are called cold foods in traditional Chinese medicine. Most of these foods have the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, nourishing yin and reducing fire.

4. Foods that cause allergies

Such foods include mushrooms, bamboo shoots, pumpkin, rooster meat, pig head, 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 carbuncle, boils, sores and carbuncles should not eat 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. "Fa" can be said to, to a large extent, to promote the worsening of the disease. 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.

5. Sour and astringent foods

Too much acid will irritate the stomach and intestines, so patients with excessive stomach acid and gastrointestinal ulcers should avoid eating it. Those that are astringent mostly contain tannins. For example, tea contains tannins, and the content of strong tea is even higher. When taken together with Chinese herbal medicine, it can combine with certain proteins, alkalis, and heavy metal salts in the herbal medicine to produce precipitation, which will affect the absorption of the active ingredients of the medicine, and also affect the absorption of nutrients such as protein.