Baochai provides meals.
"Get up early every day to get one or two first-class bird's nest, five dollars of rock sugar, and cook porridge with silver tweezers. Accustomed to it, it is stronger than medicine, and it is the most nourishing yin and invigorating qi ... "It involves two Chinese herbal medicines-bird's nest and rock sugar.
Baochai thinks that "food is the most important thing". Then give Daiyu's bird's nest for her to eat.
Why does Daiyu cough every year from the vernal equinox to the autumnal equinox? An important feature of Daiyu disease is seasonal attack. This seasonal cough is one of the typical characteristics of cough variant asthma, which is more likely to be induced in the spring and autumn.
Baochai mentioned that "the doctors here are fine, but their medicine always doesn't work." Why not invite a wise man to see what's wrong with the prescription of the doctor too much? Wouldn't it be nice to cure it? " There is spring and summer every year, neither old nor young. What? Not the conventional method ... "
This shows that Daiyu's persistent ailments have not been cured. From the perspective of symptomatic treatment, Daiyu's illness is "recurrent" and "aggravated" year after year, so it is difficult to evaluate the effect of treatment.
Baochai analyzed the prescription from the perspective of a non-professional who knows a little about medicine. "Yesterday, I saw too much ginseng and cinnamon in your prescription. Although invigorating qi and restoring energy, it should not be too hot ... "In fact, this view has some truth. Ginseng is a precious medicinal material. "Shennong Herbal Classic" mentioned that "Ginseng is sweet, slightly cold and non-toxic. The main tonic five internal organs, soothe the nerves, calm the soul, stop fright, eliminate evil spirits, improve eyesight, make people happy and improve intelligence. Long-term service will extend your life. " Ginseng has the effects of invigorating primordial qi, calming the heart and improving intelligence, invigorating qi and promoting fluid production, tonifying deficiency and strengthening body resistance, and prolonging life, and is known as the "first medicine for invigorating qi". Another medicine mentioned by Baochai, Cinnamomum cassia, is a "medicine for warming the interior", which has the functions of tonifying fire, helping yang, inducing fire to return to yuan, dispelling cold and relieving pain, promoting blood circulation and dredging channels.
Therefore, ginseng and cinnamon have obvious nourishing effects and are used to treat patients with yang deficiency and qi deficiency. Daiyu's state at that time was "not thinking about tea and rice" and "extremely poor appetite", which indicated that she was in the obstacle of spleen and stomach transport and reception function. Tonic drugs also need to go through a process of intestinal absorption from intake to action. If the gastrointestinal function is deficient, there may be a phenomenon that the deficiency does not make up.
Baochai said in the article, "The ancients said,' Eat five grains to give birth', but what you eat every day can't nourish your spirit and blood, which is not a good thing ..." This view is in line with the understanding of TCM health preservation. "Su Wen, dirty qi method: poison to attack evil, five grains to support, five fruits to help, five livestock to benefit, five vegetables to supplement". The smell combines with it to supplement the essence. These viewpoints actually affirm the important position of diet in disease rehabilitation. Diet is an important medium for us to exchange material, energy and information with the outside world, and it is also closely related to the acquired spleen and stomach function. Centering the spleen to replenish the four directions can replenish the spleen and stomach, and then can replenish other organs with insufficient function.
The meridian tropism of bird's nest was first recorded in "Seeking Truth from Materia Medica": "Bird's nest belongs exclusively to lung, spleen and kidney. Guy said that this thing was made by a bird making a nest with sea powder and hanging it on a stone cliff, making it windy and sunny. Seafood powder was originally cold and salty, so birds ranked high in the wind, but they were sweet and flat, so they could enter the lungs and get angry, and the lungs were at the highest place. Water enters the kidney to nourish and salty into the kidney. Into the stomach, sweet into the spleen and stomach. " Its efficacy can be summarized as: benefiting qi and resolving phlegm, nourishing kidney and lung, invigorating spleen and regulating stomach, and regulating fatigue.
Rock candy, sweet in taste, flat in nature, and belongs to lung and spleen meridians. Traditional Chinese medicine is generally used to moisten the heart and lungs, clear away dryness and heat, and mainly treat some deficiency syndromes of dryness and heat in the lung and stomach, sticky phlegm and even blood. Bird's nest is a very precious natural medicine, but its nature is mild, neither cold nor hot, and it enters the lung, spleen and kidney meridians, nourishing the lung, spleen and kidney, without the disadvantages of fierceness and dryness. Rock sugar is sweet in taste and flat in nature, which mainly enters the spleen meridian, tonifies the spleen soil, and tonifies the soil to produce gold. The combination of the two drugs can calm the spirit, control the spleen and lung meridians, nourish the soil and produce gold, nourish the kidney and consolidate gold, thus relieving cough symptoms. In addition, these two kinds of traditional Chinese medicines are medicinal and edible herbs, which can be eaten for a long time. Paying attention to the improvement of spleen and stomach function can be more effective for Daiyu's cough.