Ejiao paste, turtle paste... Chinese medicine snacks are contraindicated, you must know → before eating

For snack lovers

The only thing in this world that cannot be eaten is loss

Even if you're not hungry

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But foodies should pay attention

Common Herbal Snacks

Can you really eat it casually?

What is a Chinese herbal snack?

Chinese medicine snacks refer to snacks containing Chinese medicine ingredients. Due to the misunderstanding of Chinese medicine, many people eat Chinese medicine snacks indiscriminately. Many people are keen to buy some snacks containing Chinese medicine as daily health foods. As a "medicine", Chinese medicine has both specific pharmacological effects and certain toxic side effects. Therefore, Shen Yujie, a chinese medicine master who is deputy director of the Pharmacy Department of Tangshan Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital in Hebei Province, reminds everyone that the use of traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to dialectics and varies from person to person, so snacks containing traditional Chinese medicine are not suitable for everyone.

01 Guiyuan: Diabetics should eat less

Guiyuan is a commonly used tonic, fresh or dried to eat directly, dry products are used to make tea, soup, boiled sugar water taste good. It can nourish the heart and blood, calm the spirit and help sleep, but its sex is hot, suitable for people with weak constitution to eat. Guiyuan is easy to produce internal heat, so people with symptoms such as mouth ulcers, dry mouth, dry stool, easy to catch fire and other symptoms should not be eaten, and diabetics should eat less, which is easy to aggravate the disease.

02 Ejiao cream: do not eat during menstruation and colds

Ejiao paste contains ejiao, walnut kernels, black sesame seeds, rock sugar, rice wine and so on. Ejiao treatment of deficiency evidence while tonifying blood and moisturizing; black sesame seeds tonify the liver and kidneys to moisten the five internal organs; walnut kernels tonify the kidneys and brain, moisturize and dry phlegm; rice wine has the effect of activating blood to drive away cold and activating the meridians. Ejiao paste is favored by women both in terms of taste and appearance. However, it cannot be taken during menstruation and colds, and people with weak spleens should try not to eat it. Ejiao cream is also easy to catch fire, the daily consumption should not be too large, while trying not to eat raw cold spicy and greasy food, otherwise aggravate the symptoms of fire.

03 Turtle cream: spleen and stomach deficiency do not eat

Turtle cream has the effect of detoxification, nourishing yin and tonifying kidneys, moisturizing the intestines and laxatives, in addition to the main raw materials turtle board, soil poria, most of which such ingredients such as honeysuckle, licorice and other ingredients belong to the heat and fire removal drugs, so its nature is cold. Therefore, people with cold constitutions and women with menstruation are best not to eat.

04 Sour plum soup: Cold fever can not be eaten

Sour plum soup is a traditional summer drink that cools off in summer. The main ingredient in sour plum soup is wumei, wumei flavor acid has an astringent effect, used for lung weakness cough, long diarrhea, lack of heat and thirst. However, cold fever, cough and phlegm can not be eaten in the early stage, Ume has an astringent effect, to avoid external evil into the inside. Patients with dysentery and enteritis in the early stages should not be eaten, and it is best not to eat them during women's menstruation and pregnant women before and after birth.

05 Chrysanthemum tea: not suitable for people with spleen deficiency

Chrysanthemum is cool, has the effect of evacuating wind and heat, flat liver and eyesight, clearing heat and detoxification, and is more suitable for office workers who use computers to work. However, chrysanthemums are cold, and if you drink them for a long time, you are prone to diarrhea, so people with spleen deficiency and stomach cold are not suitable. It is better to brew and drink at the same time as the warm goji berries.

06 Rose Tea: Try not to drink it during menstruation

Rose flowers are loved by female friends, because it contains essential oils and aroma, has the effect of rational qi to relieve depression, activate blood and disperse stasis, and is used to treat liver qi depression and women's menstrual irregularities, red and white belts, etc., and can also beautify and nourish the face. However, not drinking rose tea during menstruation will increase menstrual volume, resulting in two deficiencies of qi and blood. Constipation, hemorrhoids and colds and fever are also best not to drink.

Source: Weiyang Health

Editor: Wu Xingting