🌿 Folk Prescriptions

The old saying goes: “If you don’t observe dietary taboos while taking medicine, you’ll ruin the doctor’s efforts.” Dietary restrictions refer to food prohibitions during illness treatment and medication.
1. Patients with edema should avoid hard, greasy, raw, and cold foods.
2. Avoid vinegar and raw/cold foods when taking diaphoretic medicines.
3. Avoid tea and radishes when taking tonics.
4. Avoid spicy, aromatic, fried, and greasy foods for those with heat-related illnesses.
5. Avoid spicy foods for patients with yin deficiency and yang exuberance, bleeding disorders, epidemic febrile diseases, skin damp sores, or carbuncles.
6. Avoid beef, mutton, fish, crab, and similar foods for patients with red, swollen, hot, painful external sores.
7. Avoid chili, spicy foods, and alcohol for those with dizziness, insomnia, and irritability.
8. Avoid greasy, heavy foods for patients with typhoid or damp-heat conditions.
9. Avoid raw foods for those with phlegm-damp obstruction, indigestion, diarrhea, or abdominal pain.
10. Avoid “wind-inducing” foods for patients with liver yang, liver wind, epilepsy, allergies, or convulsions.
11. Avoid sticky, greasy foods for those with weak gastrointestinal function.
12. Avoid amaranth if taking tortoise shell; avoid aquatic animals if taking schizonepeta; avoid green onions and tofu if taking honey; avoid tea if taking clematis root.