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      A bowl of Chinese medicine soup, smell are hard, how to drink? What time to drink? Can you drink sugar? We come to listen to the First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Professor Ouyang Rong, director of the Department of Chinese medicine decoction in the end how to drink.
      Ouyang Rong introduction, traditional Chinese medicine decoction of the special time to pay attention to master the correct medication time not only to maximize the adverse reactions to avoid the drug, but also increase the efficacy. Chinese medicine medication time should be based on the patient's condition to decide, if the disease in the stomach below (such as liver disease, kidney disease, etc.), should generally take 30 to 60 minutes before meals; for the treatment of the stomach (such as heart, lung, ), The best in the meal after 15 to 30 minutes to take. In accordance with the basic principles of the premise, should also consider the drug drug, such as Qingrejiedu, Runchang diarrhea medicine, tonic medicine should be empty stomach; stomach medicine or gastrointestinal irritation soup to take after meals as well; Antiperspirant medicine should be overnight service (bedtime once, the next morning when the fasting time to take a); diarrhea medicine when the effect is effective, not over the agent; antipyrospirant should be 30 minutes before going to bed within 1 hour; Malaria should be taken 2 hours before the onset; menstrual medicine is usually taken before or during menstruation.
      Chinese medicine decoction temperature is also required. Under normal circumstances should warm clothes, is a good frying the liquid in the room temperature to 30 ℃ ~ 40 ℃ when taking. But the solution table, dispelling cold and blood circulation of the soup should take advantage of the hot clothes; treatment of heat and disease of the antidote and antiemetic drugs, should be treated after cooling the liquid.
The dose of traditional Chinese medicine decoction adults and children are different. Adults generally take 150 to 200 ml each time is appropriate, fever patients serving Qingrejiedu, the liquid can be slightly more; children and critically ill patients, the dose should be less.
       Most people know that traditional Chinese medicine decoction is generally one day one, the first fried, two decoction mixed evenly, sooner or later sub-service. Ouyang Rong reminded, Qingrejiedu can be served 3 to 4 times a day; such as cold fever, who can be 4 hours to take a sweat solution drugs (regardless of day and night).
      Ouyang Rong said that there are patients to cover the soup is difficult to swallow the bitter taste, in the soup with sugar, this approach should not be advocated. Sugar, cool, brown sugar, if the sugar into the warm medicine, or brown sugar added to the cold medicine, will weaken the drug. Brown sugar contains more iron, calcium and other elements, with the traditional Chinese medicine in the protein and tannin and other ingredients combined to produce precipitation, affecting the efficacy. In addition, there are some drugs to use bitter taste to stimulate the digestive gland secretion, and thus play a curative effect, such as berberine. If you add sugar, it will lose this effect.

Ouyang Rong also reminded, taking decoction during the diet should pay attention to eat raw, cold, sticky, spicy food, drink about one hour before and after the best not to drink tea, coffee, milk or milk. Cold diarrhea patients, the diet should be light, such as rice gruel, lotus root starch; chronic diarrhea patients, should eat yam, lotus seeds, coix seed and other spleen and stomach food, avoid taking lettuce and cold food; The disease should avoid oily; skin disease patients to eat seafood, spicy and other food; served Anshen drug treatment insomnia, do not drink tea, coffee; serving ginseng, astragalus and other tonic, should not eat hawthorn, radish; diabetic patients should be properly controlled Staple food and sweets; serving phlegm cough medicine, to eat less sugar and spicy food; women menstrual period to eat cold food and alcohol.