How to drink Chinese medicine? Drink before or after meals? Hot or cold? Make it clear at once

How to drink Chinese medicine? Drink before or after meals? Hot or cold? An article makes you understand

Some patients don't know if they have found that the effect of relieving symptoms after taking Chinese medicine is not obvious. In fact, not all drugs. You know, Chinese medicine should be drunk before or after meals, hot or cold, which is very particular.

Among the dosage forms of traditional Chinese medicine, decoction is the most widely used dosage form in the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine. Compared with some Chinese patent medicines, it can be absorbed by human body more quickly and take effect quickly, and it can also add and subtract drugs according to syndrome differentiation. Therefore, decoction is the most widely used prescription in clinical treatment of traditional Chinese medicine.

Xu Ling, a famous doctor in the Qing Dynasty, wrote in the Origin of Medicine:' The sicker you get, the worse you get. Although I am sick, if I can't take it correctly, it will be useless, but harmful.' Well, Dr. Wang will talk to you today about how to take traditional Chinese medicine decoction to exert its greatest curative effect.

Drink before or after meals? It depends on the efficacy!

Generally speaking, it is better to drink nourishing Chinese medicine before meals, but it is better to drink it after meals, one hour before meals or one hour after meals.

According to the different parts of the disease, we should also choose different taking time. If the disease is in the lower jiao (small intestine, large intestine, kidney and bladder), drink it before meals; if the disease is in the upper jiao (heart and lung), drink it after meals.

This medicine is bitter and will hurt the stomach. Drink after meals to reduce the irritation to the stomach.

Hot or cold? See what's wrong!

Usually, drugs for treating fever should be drunk cold, such as heat-clearing and detoxicating soup, and the effect will be relatively better when drunk cold; And the drugs for dispelling cold and warming tonics are more helpful to dispel cold evil and increase curative effect when it is hot.

However, it should not be used in all cases. When the pathogenic heat or cold in the body is too serious, the medicine for clearing heat should be drunk warm, and the medicine for expelling cold should be drunk cold, because when the pathogenic heat and cold in the body are too serious, the medicine will be rejected. At this time, we will seriously drink the heat evil while it is hot, and the cold evil will seriously cool down. When the drug enters the body, the evil spirits in the body will think that it is with it, so that we will not vomit after drinking it.

For the common divergent cold, the medicine for treating the cold should be drunk while it is hot, as recorded in Treatise on Febrile Diseases. For this disease, drink a bowl of hot porridge after taking the medicine and cover it with a hot quilt to make the body sweat, so as to achieve the effect of dispelling cold and relieving exterior syndrome. But it should be noted that sweating should not be too much, enough is enough.

Don't drink Chinese medicine if it doesn't work for a long time You can adjust the prescription!

In fact, it also depends on what disease is being treated. If it is an acute disease, you can generally drink it once if the medicine is prescribed correctly. For example, if it is a medicine for treating acute gastroenteritis, one dose of medicine should be able to stop diarrhea and vomiting. If it doesn't work after three or four days, don't drink any more. You can readjust the prescription at this time.

If it is a chronic disease, such as deficiency of both qi and blood, yin and yang, and irregular menstruation in women, it is ineffective in the short term, and it must be taken for a long time to have obvious effects. For example, drugs that nourish the body should be adjusted slowly. After taking effect, the dosage of Chinese medicine will be increased or decreased as appropriate to avoid excessive supplementation.

This is a few points for attention about taking Chinese medicine. In order to play the important role of traditional Chinese medicine decoction normally, it is necessary to master the taking method of decoction reasonably, which is an aspect that can not be ignored in developing rational drug use.

Here, Dr. Wang also reminds everyone that we should treat Chinese medicine decoction dialectically. No matter how you take it, you should follow the doctor's advice and not blindly follow it.