5 things to avoid eating with chicken
You should not eat chicken with mustard greens, sesame salt, carp, perilla... because they are incompatible and harmful to your health.
According to general practitioner Bui Hong Minh, in Oriental medicine, chicken meat is sweet, warm, and has the effect of warming the middle, benefiting qi, and nourishing the marrow. Chicken meat is very nutritious and is often used in cases of weakness, weight loss, exhaustion, indigestion, poor appetite, diarrhea, dysentery, edema, frequent urination, diabetes...
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You should not eat chicken with vegetables. |
Chicken is a familiar food, processed into many different dishes. However, chicken should not be eaten with some dishes, because it will affect your health.
According to physician Minh, below are 5 things you should not eat with chicken:
Garlic, greens and raw onions
Chicken should not be eaten with garlic, mustard greens and raw onions because chicken is warm in nature, while onions and garlic are very hot, and mustard greens are cold. Eating these together can cause dysentery. If you have dysentery, boil mulberry leaves and drink it to cure it.
Sesame salt and herbs
Avoid sesame salt and herbs for chicken because chicken belongs to the wind element (wood). If you eat sesame salt and herbs together, it will affect the liver wind and cause dizziness and tremors. To treat dizziness, boil licorice water and drink it to cure it.
Carp
Avoid eating chicken with carp because chicken is warm and carp is cold. Eating it will cause acne. If you get acne from eating chicken, drink black bean water and it will be cured.
Oregano
Avoid eating chicken with perilla because chicken is warm and wind-like while perilla is hot and spicy. Eating it can cause wind-itching.
Dog meat
Avoid eating chicken and dog meat because chicken is warm and dog meat is also very warm and hot. Eating both of these things will cause heat and cause dysentery. Drinking licorice water will cure dysentery.