Eating ginger late is like arsenic? Ann, it’s not that terrible!

In China, there is a mysterious legend about ginger: ginger wins ginseng soup in the morning and ginger looks like arsenic in the evening. Some experts in traditional Chinese medicine explained: After 12 noon, the Yang Qi gradually weakens and the Yin Qi gradually grows. Eating ginger at this time will affect sleep, which is not conducive to the body’s self-repair, harmful to the body, and effective as arsenic. Eating ginger at night is really so poisonous? Modern science believes that the influence of a substance on the body depends on the interaction between its components and the human body. No matter in the morning, noon or evening, the substance contained in ginger will not be different from that in Read More …

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Why do some medicines have to be taken three times instead of one at a time?

When we were young, we all probably did such a strange math problem: a big water tank, a pipe drains water in and a pipe drains water out. Only in this way can how keep the water in the water tank full and not overflow? [How can anyone put water into the water tank like this? Isn’t there something wrong with this? ] I always thought so when I was a child. However, when I went to study for the course Pharmacokinetics, I suddenly understood the good intentions of the person who wrote the question. This is a simplified human medication model. Why can’t the medicine be filled at one time? In the above water tank model, the water tank Read More …