What are the contraindications for arsenic poisoning?

The occurrence of arsenic poisoning is closely related to the combination of some foods. Some improper combinations of daily foods may lead to arsenic poisoning, diarrhea, abdominal pain and other problems. Shrimp and vitamin C are particularly common and can easily cause arsenic poisoning.

1. Traditional Chinese medicine uses "qi" and "taste" to understand food. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that food has "four qualities" (cold, hot, warm, and cool) and "five flavors" (spicy, sweet, sour, bitter, and salty). The principle of food matching is to achieve a balance between cold and heat, spiciness and sweetness, etc. Combined with modern nutrition science, these combinations can complement the deficiencies of nutrients and facilitate the body's absorption. Similarly, an unbalanced food combination will lead to the loss of nutrients, which is not conducive to the body's absorption and may even produce toxic substances that harm health.

2. Specifically, Chinese medicine has the following situations in food combination to enhance the therapeutic effect: one is mutual benefit, that is, the combination of foods with basically the same properties or similar properties in some aspects can enhance the original therapeutic effects to varying degrees, such as lily with eggs; the second is mutual fear and mutual antagonism, that is, when two foods are used together, the toxicity or side effects of one food can be reduced or eliminated by the other food. For example, perilla can prevent and treat fish and shrimp poisoning, and olives can relieve mild poisoning caused by puffer fish, fish, and crabs.

3. There are two situations in food combination that may weaken the therapeutic effect and should be avoided as much as possible: one is incompatibility, that is, when two foods are used together, their original functions will be reduced or even lost due to mutual restraint. If you eat foods that warm and nourish qi and blood, such as mutton and dog meat, try not to eat mung beans, fresh radish, watermelon, etc. at the same time, otherwise it will weaken the warming and nourishing effect of the former. The second is opposite, that is, when two foods are used together, they can produce toxic reactions or obvious side effects such as diarrhea, such as honey against raw onions, cucumbers against peanuts, goose meat against duck pears, etc.

4. When parents are combining foods to supplement nutrition for their children, they must not forget the following taboos on food combinations.

Soy milk + eggs: loss of nutrients;

Soy milk + brown sugar: reduces the nutritional value of protein;

Rice soup + milk powder: destroys vitamin A;

Boiled water + honey: destroy nutrients;

Scallions + tofu: affect the body's absorption of calcium;

Milk + juice: not conducive to digestion and absorption;

Radish + fruit: can cause goiter;

Seafood + fruit: affects protein absorption;

Meat + tea: prone to constipation;

Hawthorn + carrot: Vitamin C is destroyed;

Salted fish + tomatoes (or banana + lactic acid beverage): produces strong carcinogens;

Prawn + Vitamin C: can cause arsenic poisoning;