Author: Health Channel Health Editor Source: Southern Health Network Click Times: 46 Update Time: August 2004-19

Editor's Note: It is late in Qiu Lai this year, the osmanthus flowers are not fragrant in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the first frost is sweating. Chinese medicine calls it "when the time is not right, when it doesn't come", so be careful of your health. It's right to plan ahead, so it's necessary to take precautions before they happen, so naturally I think of tonic and tonic.

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What is a "tonic"

Complementarity is a major feature of China traditional culture. In ancient China, all emperors and princes, princes and nobles, poets and poets, and ordinary people all knew tonics. The most representative figure is Han Yu, the "decline of eight generations of literature". At first, he strongly opposed taking Wushi powder, but in the end, he died of food poisoning because of his obsession with taking it. Today, there are still many people who are superstitious about tonic and eat supplements indiscriminately.

There is a famous saying in Huangdi Neijing, a classic work of traditional Chinese medicine: "Deficiency supplements it, but it actually relieves it. Cold is hot, and heat is cold." Chinese medicine practitioners for thousands of years cannot violate this principle. Today's mistakes are mostly due to the consequences of violating these sixteen words.

"Complement" is aimed at "emptiness", and people need to make up when they are "emptiness". Deficiency refers to the lack of healthy qi, generally speaking, low vitality and insufficient disease resistance. Pathogens are overwhelming, easy to get sick, and difficult to recover after illness. However, just saying "insufficient" is not enough. It is necessary to further distinguish between yin deficiency, yang deficiency, qi deficiency, blood deficiency or five internal organs, heart, liver, spleen, lung and kidney, which one is deficiency, or several of them are deficiency together. We can't scratch our eyebrows and beards, and we can't make up for Western Wall. It's no use being wrong. What's more, yin deficiency can supplement yang, which can cause "helping yang rob yin" and yin is more virtual; Yang deficiency can replenish yin, which can cause "nourishing yin and subduing yang" while yang is more deficient, and so on, and the future troubles are endless. Han Yu ate too many aphrodisiac five stones, robbed the true yin, and died in great pain. From this, can you make up for it? !

"excess" refers to the strong reaction, resistance, swelling or pain, fever or lump after pathogenic pathogens act on the human body. At this time, we should use the method of "diarrhea" instead of tonic. If tonics are not used properly, just like "closing the door to catch thieves", medical accidents may occur, ranging from aggravated illness to life-threatening. As for "strengthening the body resistance to drive away evil spirits" and "reinforcing diarrhea", the knowledge is deeper than that of ordinary people. Even in the medical forest, only experts can get the main points.

With what "tonic"

Up to now, the descendants of China have multiplied, and the population of1300 million relies on two magic weapons handed down by ancestors, one is medicine tonic, and the other is food tonic. Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata, Cortex Cinnamomi, Shrimp Skin, Old hen; Adenophora adenophora, Ophiopogon japonicus, Lily, Sesame; Ginseng Radix, Radix Astragali, Rhizoma Dioscoreae and honey are used for invigorating qi; Angelica sinensis, Polygoni Multiflori Radix, Colla Corii Asini and Mori Fructus; There are Xiang Lian Bushen, Walnut Bushen, Lily Bushen, Jujube Bushen, Lycium barbarum Bushen and so on.

As for medicine or food, it depends on the specific situation. Generally speaking, medicine is better than food. Strong medicine, can be used to treat diseases, and has great side effects; Loss of appetite can be used for health preservation with little side effects. If you take drugs and food by mistake for a long time, the side effects will increase day by day.

Tonics are always in winter?

Food supplement always seems to be associated with winter. From winter to the future, people often eat some cream or ginseng, angelica, walnut kernel, sesame, longan and jujube. In fact, this view is not comprehensive, only knowing one, not knowing the second and third. What is comprehensive?

1, when it is empty, when it is replenished, you don't have to wait until the winter solstice. If there is no shortage, there is no need to make up for it, even in the winter of solstice.

2. Throughout the year, the "qi of heaven and earth" is really different. Spring dominates hair growth, summer dominates growth, autumn dominates harvest, and winter dominates hiding. All living things between heaven and earth, including people, have different physiological and pathological changes with the passage of four seasons; Frequently-occurring diseases are seasonal, such as windy in spring, hot in summer, wet in summer (June and July in lunar calendar), dry in autumn and cold in winter. This is indeed the case in TCM clinic. This is called "man corresponds to heaven and earth", which has long been recorded in ancient medical books.

3. In the relationship between heaven and earth, people should be people-oriented, that is, people should respond to the changes of heaven and earth according to their own physical characteristics. For example, a cold body afraid of cold is better in summer, and a hot body afraid of heat is more comfortable in winter. The former is called "summer can't be winter" and the latter is called "winter can't be summer".

4. Four-season tonic depends on people's physical types, and cannot be generalized. Many people blindly use some warm or nourishing medicinal materials for tonic, and there are also a hodgepodge of indiscriminate, cold and heat, tonic and laxative, which is deeply hurt.

Kuang Diaoyuan (Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine)

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Advocate winter regulation

Modern people are no longer under-nourished, but over-nourished or unreasonable in nutritional structure, resulting in imbalance of Yin, Yang, Qi and blood in the body. Moreover, people with chronic diseases and sub-health status still account for a large proportion. In this way, we can't simply use the method of supplement, but use the method of combining conditioning, treatment and rehabilitation to achieve the ideal effect. Therefore, the winter supplement will be further "upgraded" to winter supplement. In recent years, many Chinese medicine practitioners have prescribed winter cream according to the physique, illness, working conditions, living conditions, thoughts and emotions of different disciplines, which has achieved good results, set an example for winter tonic and laid a foundation, and has been widely welcomed by the masses.

First, in order to adjust the "open circuit"

"Adjustment" is conditioning, which is a method used by Chinese medicine to adjust and eliminate some disorders in the human body. It is widely used, such as regulating qi, regulating blood, regulating menstruation, regulating liver and stomach, regulating yin and yang, etc. Some people usually overeat, or eat alcohol, tobacco, fishy, greasy, leading to diet stagnation or phlegm-dampness barrier. In this way, it is necessary to adjust the stomach first, find out the medical history and health status, and treat and supplement according to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, which is reasonable and effective. Because there are many people who are quiet and less active, many tonics are inherently difficult to digest, blindly tonic, and stay in the gastrointestinal tract. They not only fail to achieve the purpose of tonic, but even cause other diseases. Therefore, it is necessary to prescribe some drugs to regulate the gastrointestinal tract before tonic, which some doctors call "road-opening drugs".

Reasonable adjustment and compensation

According to gender, age, physique, work and rest, mood and other different situations, it varies from person to person. For example, children should contribute to development and intelligence; Old people should strengthen their physical strength and resist aging: women should replenish blood; Men should wait for the essence. And use the theory of traditional Chinese medicine to adjust and supplement the treatment based on syndrome differentiation;

Qi deficiency: fatigue, fatigue, wheezing when moving, pale face, loss of appetite, false stool, pale tongue, weak pulse or asthenic fire. , you can take health care products containing white ginseng, codonopsis pilosula, Atractylodes macrocephala, Astragalus membranaceus, licorice and other varieties.

Blood deficiency: dizziness, tinnitus, deafness, palpitation and insomnia, pale labial nail, thready pulse, etc. You can take health products containing Colla Corii Asini, Carapax et Plastrum Testudinis, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Radix Angelicae Sinensis and Polygoni Multiflori Radix.

Yin deficiency: thirst, dry throat, insomnia, fever in hands and feet, constipation, low-grade fever in the afternoon, night sweats, backache, nocturnal emission, red tongue with little fur, and rapid pulse. You can take health products containing tortoise plastron, turtle shell, Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Ophiopogonis, Radix Adenophorae, Rhizoma Polygonati Odorati, etc.

Yang deficiency: cold limbs, weak waist and knees, impotence and premature ejaculation.