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Chapter 144 Taking Medication and Avoiding Food Is Not a Small Matter

Chapter 11 Rational use of drugs to "help" you recover soon
There are five prohibitions in Chinese medicine: "For liver disease, prohibit pungent, and for kidney disease, prohibit sweet." According to the principle of taking medicine based on syndrome differentiation, the drug can maximize its effect.

[-]. Chinese medicine taboos

Although traditional Chinese medicine and food come from the same source, they contain different ingredients, and their properties, flavors and pharmacological effects are also different. If they are not properly coordinated, the curative effect will be reduced or lost, and even the toxic and side effects of traditional Chinese medicine will be increased.

For example, pepper is hot in nature, so it should not be combined with heat-clearing and cooling medicines (such as Yinhua, Forsythia, Shanzhi, Shengdi, Danpi, Gypsum, etc.) ginseng, etc.), otherwise it will affect the curative effect.

When taking medicines with warming effect to treat "cold syndrome", avoid eating raw or cold food.

For example, those with dry mouth, restlessness, constipation, excitability, irritability, high blood pressure, hyperthyroidism, and tachycardia should avoid spicy food and strong tea, coffee and other beverages; People with cold hands and feet, loose stools, low blood pressure, or bradycardia should avoid cold, greasy, sticky and slippery foods.

Another example is that patients with heat asthma should not eat warm mutton, goose, leek, ginger, longan, pepper and other foods, but should eat cooler Malantou, celery, raw pears, water chestnuts, etc.You should also eat less or not eat yellow croaker, hairtail, bamboo shoots, spinach, etc. that are easy to induce asthma attacks.When asthma attacks, you should also fast the food that is easy to flatulence and indigestible, such as beans, taro, potatoes, etc., so as not to aggravate the condition.

[-]. Western medicine taboos

1. Avoid eating chicken liver, pork liver, lentils, fish, yogurt, chocolate, wine, bananas, salted fish, cheese, tofu, beer, beef, sausage, etc. when taking eugenol and phenelzine.If it is not taboo, it will cause blood pressure to rise, and even cause hypertensive crisis and cerebral hemorrhage.

2. When taking sulfa drugs and sodium bicarbonate, avoid tea, vinegar, acidic fruits, meat, poultry, eggs, and sugar.Otherwise, sulfa drugs may form crystals in the urinary system and damage the kidneys, and the efficacy of sodium bicarbonate will be reduced.

3. When taking oxytetracycline and tetracycline drugs, avoid milk, dairy products, soy products, pork bone soup, beef bone soup, xuelihong, salted fish, shepherd's purse, black fungus, kelp, laver, and day lily.This kind of food is rich in calcium, which can combine with drugs to form a strong complex, destroying the nutrition of food, reducing the bactericidal effect of drugs, and failing to achieve the therapeutic effect.When drinking milk or consuming dairy products, it must be one hour after taking the medicine.

4. Avoid alcohol when taking Jiangtangling, sedatives, tranquilizers, hypnotics and furazolidone.Otherwise, there will be hypoglycemic shock or depression of the central nervous system leading to death.

5. When taking multi-enzyme tablets, pepsin, pancreatin, amylase and other digestive enzyme drugs, avoid eating pig liver and drinking strong tea.Pig liver and strong tea can denature the enzyme preparation and lose its activity.

6. When taking aminophylline and other theophylline drugs, avoid eating high-protein foods such as beef, eggs, and dairy products, otherwise the curative effect will be reduced.

7. When taking vitamin C, avoid eating pork liver.Pig liver is rich in copper, and the presence of copper will oxidize vitamin C to dehydroascorbic acid, making vitamin C invalid.

8. When taking iron supplements such as ferrous sulfate, avoid tea, peanuts, sunflower seeds, and walnuts.This is because the tannic acid in them will combine with iron to form an insoluble substance, which will significantly reduce the absorption of iron.

9. When taking phenylbutazone, avoid salt.Because phenylbutazone can inhibit the excretion of sodium ions and chloride ions from the kidneys, avoiding salt can prevent hypernatremia.

10. When taking vitamin K, avoid eating hawthorn, fresh dates, cauliflower, eggplant, celery, tomatoes, apples, etc. rich in vitamin C.Because vitamin C can decompose and destroy vitamin K, weakening the efficacy of medicine.

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Shrimp is rich in copper, which will oxidize vitamin C and make it ineffective; at the same time, the pentavalent arsenic in shrimp will react with vitamin C to form toxic "trivalent arsenic", so do not eat shrimp when taking vitamin C.

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