On an empty stomach: avoid food for 2 hours

Jin Xiaojing Nanjing hospital of spleen and stomach diseases

China's traditional Chinese medicine to

        When the doctor prescribe, could tell you some medicine should be taken on an empty stomach. It mostly to help drug absorption and play a role.

        Belly without food in the empty state, which is a hollow, such as wake up in the morning and before going to bed. Specifically, 1 ~ 2 hour before meals and before 2 ~ 3 hours after meals are on an empty stomach.

        Take medicine on an empty stomach is the most direct benefits to avoid food affect efficacy, drug is absorbed and play a role. The following drugs usually need to take on an empty stomach.

        Laxatives magnesium sulfate used in western medicine catharsis, when taken on an empty stomach, it can maintain higher blood concentrations, more conducive to work. TCM emphasizes the "medicine filling of bowel", when there is no food in the stomach and duodenum, used for purging of traditional Chinese medicine can avoid mixed with food, quickly into the bowel, is conducive to digestion and absorption of the drug, play a better effect.

        Winter tonic traditional Chinese medicine such as all kinds of nourishing herbal paste, perfect great extract, siwu soup, sijunzi decoction, pulse-activating decoction, etc., should be 30 ~ 60 minutes before breakfast and about 30 minutes before bed every time, this can make them better play to the role of the tonic qi and blood, regulate Yin and Yang.

        Some antibiotics keflex, norfloxacin and easily affected by food, absorption rate slows, so should be taken on an empty stomach.

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