How should Chinese medicine be taken more effectively?

Whether the method of taking Chinese medicine is correct and appropriate has a lot of influence on the treatment and curative effect of Chinese medicine. This includes the time of taking medicine, the method of taking medicine and the nursing after taking medicine.

First, the time of taking medicine

Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica records: "If the disease is above the chest diaphragm, take the medicine first; If you are sick below your heart, take medicine first and then eat; Those who are sick in the veins of limbs should be on an empty stomach and in Dan; Those who are sick in the bone marrow should be full and eat. "

Generally speaking, if you are sick in the upper energizer, you should take it after eating. Illness in the lower energizer should be taken before eating; Tonics and purgatives should be taken on an empty stomach; Antipsychotic drugs should be taken in the clinic; Irritating to the gastrointestinal tract, it should be taken after eating. Those who are acute or seriously ill will take clothes at any time; Chronic diseases should be taken on time; Anti-malaria drugs should be taken 2 hours before the attack. Ten-jujube soup is served in Pingdan, and chicken calls are served in Wugeng. These medication times are of great significance for improving clinical efficacy.

second, how to take it

take the decoction. Generally, one dose a day, divided into 3~4 warm clothes. According to the needs of the disease, some people only take it once a day, some can take it several times a day, some can take soup instead of tea, or even take 9 doses a day.

For diseases such as vomiting and diarrhea caused by exogenous wind-cold or spleen-stomach deficiency, ginger and jujube decoction should be taken to enhance the efficacy of dispelling wind-cold and regulating spleen and stomach. For traumatic injury, arthralgia due to wind-cold-dampness, take it with yellow wine or white wine, such as panax pseudo-ginseng, Sanqishang Tablet, Yaotongning Capsule, Yunnan Baiyao, etc., and lead the medicine directly to the affected area. Maren Pills for constipation should be taken with honey water to increase its effect of moistening intestine and regulating middle energizer. Drugs for nourishing yin and tonifying kidney should be taken with light salt water, such as Liuwei Dihuang Pill, which is taken to lead the medicine into the kidney.

Li Dongyuan, one of the four masters in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, said: "Those who are ill are not tired of frequent illness; He who is ill never tires of meals. If you take less, you will be honored, and if you take more, you will make up for it. "

in addition, there are hot clothes and cold clothes. Usually, cold medicine can be taken with cold medicine for treating heat syndrome, and hot medicine can be taken with hot medicine for treating cold syndrome, which can assist the efficacy of medicine. However, when the condition is serious, it should be taken with cold medicine and hot medicine, so as to prevent the rejection of evil medicine.

in "Su Wen. On the Five Permanent Political Powers", it is said that "heat should be treated with cold, and it should be done with warmth. Treat cold with heat and do it with cool "and" treat temperature with clear and do it with cold "; It is recorded that the latter is the regular method, while the former is the anti-adjuvant method.

For those who vomit after taking medicine, a small amount of ginger should be added, or ginger juice should be taken first, and then medicine should be taken. You can also take the method of cold service and small amount of frequency service. Like a child eating Chinese medicine, you can add some crystal sugar water appropriately to remove the taste of the medicine. For patients who are unconscious or gagged, and those who have difficulty swallowing, nasal feeding can be used.

when using severe drugs and toxic drugs, it is advisable to start from a small amount and gradually increase the amount until the effect is taken, and be careful not to overdo it, so as to avoid poisoning and damage to healthy qi.

third, aftercare

aftercare and nursing after taking medicine is one of the contents of usage, which not only directly affects the drug effect, but also relates to the recovery of the sick body. In the usage of Guizhi decoction, Treatise on Febrile Diseases requires drinking a bowl of hot gruel after taking the medicine to help the drug. And warm cover, so that patients are slightly sweating all over, do not make them sweat. Generally speaking, taking antiperspirant drugs should take slight perspiration, but it is not necessary to sweat excessively. After taking laxatives, you should pay attention to your diet, and it is not advisable to eat cold and indigestible food, so as not to affect the normal function of the spleen and stomach.

There are two aspects to avoid eating after taking medicine:

1. Diseases should avoid eating, such as edema (referring to edema of body and limbs), avoiding sugar for diabetes (referring to diabetes), being cautious and greasy for diarrhea (referring to diarrhea), and cold syndrome (referring to wind-cold, wet-cold, blood-cold and yang deficiency).

2. Drugs should be taboo on diet. For example, if the prescription contains Rehmannia glutinosa, you should avoid eating radishes (like taking drugs such as Liuwei Dihuang Pill, you can't eat radishes any more; The same is true for prescriptions containing ginseng, such as Sijunzi Pill and Ginseng Guipi Pill). For prescriptions with Smilax glabra, tea should be avoided, and puffer fish and scaleless fish should be avoided when taking Schizonepeta. There are others, such as shelter from the wind after sweating, careful labor, and sexual intercourse (such as Yougui Pill for tonifying kidney-yang, etc.), taking medicine and living a husband-and-wife life, resulting in either loose teeth or baldness), and avoiding anger to prevent the occurrence of "fatigue recovery" and "food recovery", which will affect the therapeutic effect.