What to do if taking Chinese medicine hurts your stomach

Many people choose to take Chinese medicine after meals. If they are full during meals and then drink a large bowl of Chinese medicine after meals, they will feel uncomfortable in the stomach and even feel nauseous. Therefore, when patients take Chinese medicine, they must make sure to eat eight-tenths full when eating. In this way, the damage to the stomach after meals will be less. So what should we do if taking Chinese medicine hurts the stomach?

1 If the irritation to the stomach is quite severe, you can take the medicine after or during meals. In this way, there will be food in the stomach and the medicine cannot directly contact the gastric mucosa, so the irritation to the gastric mucosa will be reduced or eliminated.

2 If taking the medicine after meals does not work, you can take some antacids and drugs to protect the gastric mucosa at the same time as taking the medicine. Common ones include rhubarb soda tablets, cimetidine tablets, omeprazole enteric-coated capsules, etc. These drugs can effectively protect the gastric mucosa, reduce acid and relieve pain, and reduce the irritation of drugs to the stomach.

3 The last method is to replace the enteric-coated drugs of the same type. For example, diabetic patients can take metformin enteric-coated tablets instead of metformin tablets. Enteric-coated tablets cannot be decomposed in the stomach and will not irritate the stomach. The same is true for other drugs.

Many people believe that traditional Chinese medicine has many functions and effects. Many times, when they have a major or minor illness, they will go to the pharmacy to get some traditional Chinese medicine. However, the editor here reminds everyone that if traditional Chinese medicine is not taken correctly, the consequences can be very serious.

1. All medicines are poisonous to some extent. There may be a misunderstanding that Chinese medicines have fewer or no side effects. This also varies according to the medicine, the person and the disease. It is possible that taking Chinese medicine will damage your stomach, but this is not always the case. Sometimes, even though I don’t take medicine anymore, I still have a subconscious conditioned reflex that makes me feel nauseous or even vomit when I see or think about it. Drugs such as omeprazole and domperidone are drugs that protect the gastric mucosa and promote the recovery of gastrointestinal function. You can also continue to take them for a period of time.

What to do if taking Chinese medicine hurts your stomach

2. Three parts illness and seven parts care. It is best to adjust the patient's lifestyle and diet. According to the patient's needs, serve some sweet, soft and light foods to regulate the stomach and spleen and restore stomach qi. Too much fatty and greasy food should be avoided. If the patient particularly wants to eat a certain food during a certain period of time, such as chili peppers, you can give it in small amounts. It doesn't have to be too strict, but be careful not to overdo it.

Regulate your stomach and intestines. Taking Chinese medicine like this will ruin your stomach.

1. Generally speaking, medicines need to be analyzed in terms of four properties, five flavors, rising and falling, floating and sinking, and whether they are toxic or non-toxic. The four qualities refer to cold, hot, warm and cool, and the five flavors refer to pungent, sweet, sour, bitter and salty. Among them, bitter and cold medicines are mostly used to clear heat, purge fire and detoxify, but long-term use can easily damage the vitality and the spleen and stomach functions. For example, the isatis root we take daily has a bitter and cold nature. It is a medicine for clearing away heat and detoxifying. It is more effective for people with strong constitutions and those who are prone to getting angry. However, if the patient has a weak and cold constitution, has a yellow complexion and often suffers from diarrhea, it should not be taken for a long time, otherwise its bitter and cold nature will damage the stomach and cause stomach pain, fear of cold, loss of appetite and other symptoms. In addition, most of the popular Chinese herbal preparations for weight loss and beauty on the market contain drugs such as rhubarb. Rhubarb is bitter and cold in nature, and should not be taken for a long time. Otherwise, it will not only damage the spleen and stomach, but also cause black bowel disease, kidney stones and other diseases.

2. There is a saying in traditional Chinese medicine theory that “bitter and cold foods hurt the stomach”. Therefore, medication should be stopped as soon as the disease is cured. If long-term medication is required, overall conditioning is required based on the condition of the disease and the treatment. Some Chinese patent medicines may cause stomach discomfort after taking them, so these medicines need to be taken after meals. And every week of taking them, stop taking them for 1-2 days to achieve the purpose of treatment without hurting the stomach. For patients with weak and cold constitution, such as those who often suffer from spleen and stomach disharmony, prone to diarrhea, fear of cold and cold limbs, they can take cold Chinese medicine with rice soup, because rice soup is sweet and flat in nature, and has the functions of invigorating qi, nourishing yin, and moisturizing dryness, which can reduce the damage of drugs to the spleen and stomach.

3. Many elderly people with weak spleen and stomach and children whose spleen and stomach functions are not yet fully developed should be more careful when taking Chinese medicine that is cold and bitter in taste. They should not take the medicine for more than one week to avoid damaging the spleen and stomach. If long-term use is required, please ask your doctor to reduce the dosage appropriately according to your condition.