Many tonic methods have misunderstandings.
Myth 1: tonic is too urgent.
Many ordinary people started a tonic in a hurry. But after a big meal, I often feel sick to my stomach. So some people think that they can't get compensation and give up the tonic plan. In fact, the problem is not the food, but the wrong method. Tonifying in winter, it is best to supplement in advance, regulate the function of spleen and stomach, make preparations for tonic, avoid intolerant reaction of tonic, and make tonic twice the result with half the effort. What is a supplement? The first is to adjust the function of the spleen and stomach. You can take some drugs that strengthen the spleen and stimulate appetite, such as Dangshen, Pseudostellaria heterophylla, fried Coicis Semen, yam, lotus seeds and Amomum villosum.
Myth 2: Does it fit the symptoms?
Choose supplements and tonic methods according to everyone's physique, and know your physique before tonic. Some ordinary people don't know their physique, follow the trend when they see what others are making up, or draw conclusions for themselves according to their personal imagination, and the result often fails to achieve the effect of making up. Traditional Chinese medicine divides people's physique into nine types: peace, yang deficiency, yin deficiency, qi deficiency, phlegm-dampness, damp-heat, qi stagnation, blood stasis and idiosyncrasy. This constitution is often not single, but a mixture of several constitutions, such as yang deficiency, qi deficiency and phlegm-dampness syndrome. This is different from the simple progressive method of yang deficiency or qi deficiency. If syndrome differentiation is wrong, it is likely to lead to mistakes in later tonic treatment.
If you have a cold, you must not take supplements, whether it is warm ginseng or velvet antler, or clean Adenophora adenophora, Polygonatum odoratum, Lycium barbarum or bird's nest, which are not suitable for people with colds and colds. It is recommended to wait until the cold is completely cured before taking tonic.
Myth 3: the dose is not appropriate.
Tonifying drugs must follow the principle of small amount and long duration. For example, ginseng does not exceed 5 grams per person, and it is taken 1~2 times a week. Ejiao should not exceed 10g per person at a time. Small doses are not good, and large doses will have side effects. If some people like to use more medicinal materials at one time, it will lead to "getting angry", and some people eat a little at a time and use it with the whole family. An old man heard that Huangqi tonifies qi. Every time he cooks soup, no matter what kind of soup, he puts two pieces of astragalus, then cooks 4 liters of water, and the whole family drinks it together for two days. This usage has no effect.
Myth 4: Improper service
Although medicine and food are homologous, medicinal materials can be made into food to eat, but medicinal materials are also medicines. Tonics should follow the principle of taking medicine, and drugs should not be taken with strong tea, such as eating ginseng and American ginseng and drinking strong tea. At the same time, we should also pay attention to the "eighteen opposites" and "nineteen fears" of traditional Chinese medicine to avoid drug interaction and bring harm to the human body.
Myth 5: Ignoring food supplement
As the saying goes, "medicine is better than food." Many people attach importance to tonic remedies, but ignore that there are many effective tonic materials in their daily diet. For example, mutton is a good food for treating deficiency of both qi and blood, while Sydney can nourish yin and moisten dryness, and is a good helper for nourishing yin and so on. Medicine tonic lies in strengthening the body resistance, and food tonic lies in health preservation, both of which are indispensable.
Then, what principles should be followed in winter tonic, so as to avoid our misunderstanding of tonic?
First, winter tonic should have a basis.
Syndrome has deficiency of both yin and yang, cold and heat in exterior and interior. Different certificates should have different supplements. Cold syndrome, the component of heat is tonic; Heat syndrome, cold component is a tonic; Yin deficiency should supplement ingredients or drugs; Yang deficiency should be supplemented with ingredients or drugs. Only by taking tonic according to the symptoms can tonic play its health care role. Therefore, tonic must be made under the guidance of qualified Chinese medicine practitioners and pharmacists according to syndromes.
Second, winter tonic should be "customized".
Because people's age, gender and endowment are different, the tonic time should also be different. People with cold syndrome or yang deficiency should avoid eating cold food; People with fever or yin deficiency should avoid eating warm food. Children's physique is delicate, and raw materials should not be hot and cold. Most of the elderly are liver and kidney deficiency, so it is not appropriate to use drugs warm and dry. Pregnant women are afraid of fetal gas and should not use products that promote blood circulation and benefit the kidney. These are all supplements that should be paid attention to.
Third, winter tonic should be "based on the ground"
There are certain differences in climatic conditions and living habits in different regions, and human physiological activities and pathological changes are also different. Some places are humid, the diet is warm, dry and spicy, some places are cold, and the diet is hot and greasy, while the diet in Guangdong in the south is cool and sweet, so is the choice of supplements.
"Make up for a winter, and the next year will be painless.
However, whether it is food tonic, medicated diet, medicated wine or ointment, we should pay attention to supplement according to symptoms, people and places. Anyone with excessive internal heat, excessive liver fire or weak constitution, high blood pressure, or frequent bleeding tendency, aphtha and constipation should not eat red ginseng, velvet antler and high-heat supplements. Some people can't take supplements suddenly when they are seriously damp-heat, stagnation and phlegm. They should take some "clearing the way" first, and then take tonic. In short, we must pay attention to the pertinence of tonic, so as to achieve the purpose of tonic by taking tonic, cream and wine in winter.
Tonifying deficiency in winter
It's suddenly cold, and everyone is crazy about taking supplements, as if they want to eat mutton stoves and ginger ducks. However, Chen Chaozong, a Chinese medicine practitioner, reminded that tonic needs to be adjusted according to different constitutions. Chinese medicine roughly divides people's physique into five types, including: qi deficiency, blood deficiency, yin deficiency, yang deficiency and dryness and heat. Choosing different foods according to different constitutions is the best policy! During the tonic period, the consumption should also be strictly controlled to avoid excessive compensation.
Chen Chaozong, chairman of the Taiwan Province Provincial Association of Grass-roots Chinese Medicine and a practicing Chinese medicine practitioner, pointed out that winter tonic is a method of warming, that is, taking warm herbs will make you feel warm after eating, which is suitable for people with deficiency-cold constitution, but not for people with dry constitution, because it is easy to get angry, especially those with chronic diseases such as gout, hyperlipidemia and diabetes. It's best to consult Chinese medicine before tonic.
Four bogeys for tonic are good.
1. Don't put on makeup unless your body is empty.
You should be extra careful when making supplements for your health, mainly because it doesn't add points to your health. It's like asking a person with harmonious qi and blood and strong body to take tonic, just like putting a patch on a beautiful dress.
2. Don't make up for the incompatibility between Yin and Yang.
Yang deficiency constitution misuses tonics such as Angelica sinensis, Lycium barbarum and Radix Rehmanniae. , leading to more deficiency of yang, while yin deficiency constitution misuses tonics such as ginseng, cinnamon and velvet antler, leading to more deficiency of yin deficiency and greater deficiency of fire. The disharmony between Yin and Yang is like robbing Peter to pay Paul, which is not only futile but also self-defeating.
3. Don't make up for unresolved exogenous factors.
We often see people who haven't recovered from a cold, weak and eager to take tonic. As a result, after taking tonics, they have more uncomfortable symptoms such as dry throat, chest tightness and yellow sputum, which is the so-called taboo of "staying indoors" in Chinese medicine. It is also a common problem of the general public.
4. Angry people should not make up for it for a long time.
It is common for outpatients to take supplements themselves, and they don't know how to control themselves. "Overfilling" will cause side effects such as "getting angry" or "damaging body fluid and consuming blood". I suggest you master a principle: "Stop when it is effective, and it is safer to stop when it is good. ".
Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes that the most common Chinese medicine diet therapy is Shiquan Dabu Decoction, which is suitable for people with qi deficiency, blood deficiency and cold constitution in winter, such as cold limbs, listlessness, stomach pain, sore limbs and easy to catch a cold. However, it is necessary to choose the most suitable formula according to the weather change and one's own physical health condition in order to achieve the effect.
Nourishing is divided into five constitutions.
1. Qi deficiency
It is prone to listlessness, chills, pallor, fatigue, weakness of limbs, shortness of speech, loss of appetite, low voice, easy sweating, dizziness and other phenomena, and can be used as a tonic.
2. People with blood deficiency
Symptoms such as dull complexion, pale lips, light nails, dizziness, palpitation, fatigue, shortness of breath, palpitation and insomnia, dry skin and oligomenorrhea should be taken together with blood-enriching drugs such as Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Radix Angelicae Sinensis and Arillus Longan.
3. Yin deficiency
Dry mouth and throat, vexation and anxiety, nocturnal emission, backache and fatigue, fever of hands and feet, flushing, dizziness and tinnitus, restless sleep, emaciation, dry eyes, insomnia and dreaminess. Can be eaten with Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Ophiopogonis, Rhizoma Polygonati Odorati and Fructus Lycii to nourish yin and moisten dryness.
4. Yang deficiency
Afraid of cold, tepid limbs, weak waist and knees, listlessness, thin stool and other phenomena, commonly used yang-tonifying drugs are dried ginger, cinnamon, psoralea corylifolia, cistanche deserticola and so on.
5. Hot and dry people
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, it can be divided into deficiency heat and excess heat. This constitution is not suitable for winter tonic, such as ginger duck and mutton stove. Because it is easy to cause excessive internal heat, such as severe internal heat, bitter taste, dry throat, broken mouth, inability to sleep and other symptoms, if tonic is needed in winter, it is more suitable for cold tonic. Cold tonic refers to the tonic of cold food, which can reconcile the dry fire caused by the slight increase of deficiency yang in the body and has the effect of reducing fire and relieving fever. Cold tonic herbs include coix seed, American ginseng, Polygonatum odoratum, lily, poria cocos, Ophiopogon japonicus and so on.
Chinese medicine reminds: you must consult Chinese medicine before tonic, so that you can get twice the result with half the effort, and don't forget that the correct concept of tonic is to adjust according to personal physique. Therefore, whether you simply take nourishing soup or add ingredients to make a medicinal soup base, it is recommended to find the right medicinal materials selected by Chinese medicine to achieve the effect of health preservation in winter.