As the saying goes, "one summer is free from illness, and three points are empty." When beginning of autumn arrives, although the weather is cool in the morning and evening, there are still autumn tigers raging during the day, and people's bodies are prone to fatigue. According to the principle of "nourishing yang in spring and summer, nourishing yin in autumn and winter" in traditional Chinese medicine, it is very necessary to supplement in autumn, but tonic can not be made indiscriminately, and the following problems should be avoided.
1. Avoid disease-free makeup.
If you are not sick, you will not only increase your expenses, but also harm yourself. If you take too much cod liver oil, it will lead to poisoning. If you take glucose for a long time, it will cause obesity, increase blood cholesterol and easily induce cardiovascular diseases.
2. Avoid the distinction between reality and reality.
The treatment principle of traditional Chinese medicine is to replenish deficiency. It does not mean that patients with asthenia should not use tonics. Deficiency is divided into yin deficiency, yang deficiency, qi deficiency and blood deficiency. Only the right medicine can make up the body, otherwise it will be counterproductive and will hurt the body.
Although health care is not as strict as treating diseases, it should be divided into two categories according to the object of eating: cold and hot. Slightly cold people are afraid of cold and like heat, their hands and feet are not warm, their mouth is pale and drooling, their stools are loose, their urine is long and their tongue is pale. Hot people have fever in their hands and feet, dry mouth, bitter taste, bad breath, dry stool, short and red urine and red tongue. If you don't distinguish between cold and heat, it will easily lead to "adding fuel to the fire."
3. The more taboos, the better.
Eating too many supplements is harmful. It is unscientific to think that "take more tonics, treat diseases and strengthen the body without diseases". If you take ginseng antler supplements in excess, it will cause abdominal distension and not think about diet; Taking too much vitamin C can cause nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
4. Avoid all supplements.
Animal food is undoubtedly a good tonic. It is not only nutritious, but also delicious. However, meat is not easy to digest and absorb. If you eat too much for a long time, you will often be overwhelmed by the elderly whose gastrointestinal function has declined. Some "by-products" in the process of meat digestion, such as excessive lipids and sugars, are often the causes of common diseases and frequently-occurring diseases in the elderly, such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and cancer. A light diet is not without supplements, especially vegetables. Modern nutrition believes that fresh fruits and vegetables contain a variety of vitamins and trace elements, which are essential nutrients for human body.
5. Avoid taking medicine.
It is unscientific to emphasize medicine over food, because many foods are also therapeutic drugs. Eating more shepherd's purse can treat high blood pressure; Eating more radishes can strengthen the stomach, promote digestion, flatten the chest, resolve phlegm and relieve cough; Eating more yam can replenish the spleen and stomach. Daily consumption of walnuts, peanuts, red dates, lentils, lotus roots, etc. It is also a good supplement.
6. Avoid paying more attention to "in" than "out".
With the improvement of living standards, many families have meat and greasy meals every day. The acidic toxic substances produced by the metabolism of these foods need to be discharged in time, and the accelerated pace of life makes many people have irregular defecation and even constipation. In recent years, health experts put forward a new concept of paying attention to "negative nutrition", that is, paying attention to the discharge of human excreta and reducing the retention and absorption of "enterotoxin", and advocating that timely and unobstructed defecation should be paid attention to while tonic.
7. Avoid constant "compensation".
Some people like to take some tonic according to their own tastes, and then they have changed from being unchanged for many years to "partial eclipse" and "overeating", which is not good for their health. Because drugs and food not only have health care and therapeutic effects, but also have certain side effects, long-term use will affect the nutritional balance in the body. Especially for the elderly, not only the functions of various organs have declined to varying degrees, but also they need comprehensive and systematic conditioning, and different seasons also have different demands for health care drugs and food. Therefore, it is very necessary to adjust according to different situations, and it is impossible to make up for it in the same way.
8. The more expensive you are, the more you avoid it, the more you make up.
"Rare things are precious", those noble traditional foods such as bird's nest and shark's fin may not have peculiar dietotherapy effect, while very common foods such as sweet potatoes and onions have dietotherapy value worthy of attention. In addition, all dietotherapy has certain objects and indications, so the medicated diet should be determined according to the needs, and "what is lacking should be supplemented", and the level should not be divided by nobility, especially for the elderly, but by practicality and low price.