From the perspective of keeping in good health in the four seasons of TCM, tonic advocates winter. At this time, the human body has a strong appetite and eats much, which can absorb the essence of nutrition and store it in the body, which is conducive to the enhancement of physical fitness. Tonifying in winter, especially the cream is the best. The most important thing is that it has two functions of "regulating" and "tonifying", and it also has the advantages of good taste, easy absorption, convenient taking, easy storage and easy carrying, so more and more people like it. However, when taking the cream, you must know the following.

1. How to take cream correctly?

Generally, the ointment should be taken once in the morning and once in the evening, and the dosage is 15 ~ 20ml (one tablespoon). Users usually try a small amount for the first time, and then gradually increase. Take medicine regularly and quantitatively every time.

According to the time taken in the morning and evening, it can be divided into fasting, before meals, after meals and before going to bed. The cream is mainly nourishing and strengthening the body, so it is recommended to take it on an empty stomach. At this time, the gastrointestinal tract is empty and absorbed strongly; It is recommended to eat rice porridge and other things immediately after taking it to help absorption. If you feel uncomfortable on an empty stomach, you can change to a half empty stomach (half hungry and half full). For patients with gastrointestinal diseases or poor spleen and stomach function, it should be taken one hour before meals; Used for lung diseases, cardiovascular diseases, etc. , after meals 15 ~ 30 minutes; The cream that nourishes the heart and spleen, calms the heart and calms the nerves, and sleeps and calms the nerves should be taken 2-3 hours before going to bed.

There are three ways to take the cream: taking, adjusting and dissolving. Take it with water, that is, take an appropriate amount of ointment, take it with boiling water, stir it evenly, and take it after dissolving. The preparation method is to add yellow wine or water to the paste, stew it in a bowl or cup, and take it after mixing. If more drugs such as Radix Rehmanniae Preparata and Cornus officinalis are used in the prescription, and the amount of gum in the prescription is large, the plaster is sticky and difficult to dissolve, so it should be stewed with boiling water before taking it. You can also take warm yellow wine; Dissolution is also called inclusion, that is, slowly swallowing in the mouth, so that the drug can be slowly dissolved in the mouth and exert its efficacy, such as Qingguo ointment for treating chronic pharyngitis.

2. What are the dietary taboos during taking cream?

Avoid foods that are cold, greasy, spicy, indigestible and irritating, so as not to interfere with the digestive function of the spleen and stomach and affect the absorption of the cream. Do not eat white radish, mung bean, cold, greasy, spicy, hairy, do not drink tea, coffee, cola, white wine. Because most of the traditional Chinese medicines in the ointment have the function of exciting the cerebral cortex, refreshing products such as drinking tea and coffee often make people too excited and affect their rest.

3. Why should I eat Fang Kai before eating cream?

Digestion and absorption is the key to good curative effect. Some people need to take a prescription before taking it to regulate the stomach and let the medicine be absorbed. Some people have poor spleen and stomach transport function, thick and greasy tongue coating and poor appetite. Taking ointment at this time can not only play a role in conditioning, but also increase the burden on the spleen and stomach, resulting in various discomfort symptoms. Therefore, before such people officially take the cream, the general doctor will prescribe some traditional Chinese medicines to strengthen the spleen and stomach, regulate qi and regulate dampness, and improve the function of the spleen and stomach. These Chinese medicines, which were first applied, were vividly turned into "road-clearing drugs".

4. Is winter tonic suitable for everyone?

The cream is mainly suitable for the following people.

Susceptible to physical weakness:

Because of various reasons, poor health, decreased disease resistance, a slight change in climate is easy to induce colds and relapse many times. Through the treatment of ointment, the immunity of patients can be improved, the disease resistance can be enhanced, and the number of cold attacks can be reduced.

Sub-health status:

Modern people have a fast pace of life and great work pressure, coupled with alcohol, tobacco and entertainment, emotional tension, lack of sleep and so on. , greatly reducing the normal physiological function of the human body, leading to dizziness, backache and leg weakness, mental fatigue, palpitation and insomnia and other symptoms. Ointment and nourishing drugs, attack and tonic, main tonic, rectification and disease, relieve patients' long-term mental depression and improve sleep quality, so as to restore the balance of yin and yang of patients and return to normal health.

Chronic diseases:

Such as chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, chronic diarrhea and chronic cardiac insufficiency. Long-term recurrence leads to imbalance of yin and yang, dysfunction of viscera, repeated illness, easy recurrence, or prolonged recovery period after illness. Through the conditioning of ointment, we can make up its deficiency, eliminate its surplus and adjust the balance of the body, and finally achieve the effects of reducing the number of recurrences, relieving the symptoms at the onset and improving the quality of life of patients, and finally achieve the clinical recovery of some patients.

Such as children, women and the elderly. Children with chronic cough, anorexia, anemia, etc. ; By regulating qi and blood, calming the nerves and calming the mind, women can achieve the functions of maintaining beauty, protecting skin and resisting aging; The elderly have decreased qi and blood, lack of energy and low viscera function. In winter, it can replenish ointment and nourish medicine, restore the balance of yin and yang of viscera, qi and blood, and achieve the purpose of anti-aging and prolonging life.

5. Under what circumstances should I stop taking cream?

First, acute diseases

Cold, fever, sore throat, cough, diarrhea, urethral pain, etc. ), as well as the onset and activities of chronic diseases, it is not appropriate to apply ointment.

Second, some metabolic diseases.

For example, diabetics should not take sugary cream, and patients with hyperuricemia should not take cream containing chewing gum tonic.

Third, pregnant women and children.

Pregnant women and children under 3 years old generally do not advocate applying ointment.

Text/Renji Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University Gong Liya Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Finishing/Yuan Huiyun

Editor/Guan Zhongyao

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