Winter supplements the bottom of autumn.
In the practice of tonic for thousands of years, Chinese medicine has summed up the countermeasures of "winter tonic, late autumn", including Chinese medicine tonic and diet tonic.
Traditional Chinese medicine tonic is used in autumn for those who are deficient and do not make up, paving the way for tonic in winter. After autumn, at least 65,438+0 months before tonic, Chinese medicine should be taken to regulate spleen and qi, eliminate dampness and turbidity, stimulate appetite and help digestion and absorption, thus restoring gastrointestinal function, eliminating dampness and turbidity, keeping tongue coating clean and greasy, maintaining the best functional state of spleen and stomach, and opening the way for tonic in winter.
According to the principle of "keeping healthy according to the time" in autumn, we advocate diet therapy and adjust the function of viscera, so that the human body can gradually adapt to the cold climate in winter and guide winter tonic.
In hot summer, people eat a lot of food and eat less, which leads to weight loss, fatigue and weakness. Therefore, it is most appropriate to take dietary supplements in autumn to restore and regulate the function of human viscera. Because people eat more cool fruits and cold drinks in summer, it is most likely to damage the function of the spleen and stomach. In autumn, the yang of human body is getting weaker and the yin is getting longer, and the function of spleen and stomach and the resistance of human body are more likely to decline. If people eat a lot of thick and greasy tonics at this time, it will certainly suddenly increase the burden on the spleen and stomach, leading to digestive disorders, chest tightness, abdominal distension, anorexia, diarrhea and other symptoms. Therefore, in order to adapt the stomach to the process, diet therapy is advocated in autumn. Diet therapy in autumn is mainly nursed back to health, supplemented by some nutritious and digestible foods, such as fish, lean meat, beef, eggs, lotus seeds, coix seed, jujube, walnut meat, longan meat, lily and other light and peaceful products. Dairy products, soybean milk, fresh vegetables and fruits can also be eaten properly. Euryale ferox and yam, which are homologous to medicine and food, are good products for regulating the spleen and stomach. You can stew beef with Gordon Euryale, or you can stew Gordon Euryale, jujube and peanuts with brown sugar. Under the guidance of a doctor, take proper amount of sun-dried ginseng and American ginseng to invigorate qi and promote fluid production. For people with chronic bronchitis, taking Gecko Dabu Pill or Shenqi Pill and eating walnut kernel in autumn is beneficial to lung, kidney and qi, and helps to resist exogenous pathogens in winter, relieve the onset of winter diseases and guide winter tonic.
Traditional Chinese medicine tonic and dietotherapy tonic are the keys to "keeping healthy according to time" in autumn, which not only nourishes the body, but also makes it easy for the human body to accept tonic in winter, avoiding the situation of "deficiency without tonic".
Matters needing attention in winter tonic
Many people think of ginseng first when they mention tonic. Ginseng is the best tonic, but excessive use of ginseng will cause "ginseng abuse syndrome" and even adverse reactions. It is reported that normal people can cause poisoning symptoms by taking 3% ginseng tincture 200cc at a time. Because most of the nutritional tonics on the market are made of staple food, they are all people and lack personality. For example, the most commonly used Shiquan Dabu ointment consists of five tonics, such as Codonopsis pilosula and Astragalus membranaceus, four tonics, such as Angelica sinensis and Paeonia lactiflora, and cinnamon, which is blindly warming yang. It is only suitable for people with deficiency of both qi and blood and yang deficiency, while people with hot constitution will feel too hot and upset their stomachs after taking it. As the saying goes, "water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it", and so can nutrition and health care products. Reasonable, scientific and appropriate use of nutrition and health care products will benefit endlessly; Blind tonic and abuse of nutrition and health care products will damage the body and cause endless harm.
Tonic drugs should be "one drug with one property, and all kinds of winter tonic drugs can only be applied to a certain physique and treat a certain disease and syndrome." Everyone has different physical conditions, different diseases and different constitutions, so winter tonic must be on the right track, because people are tailor-made due to illness, and "one person and one party" has targeted tonic. No tonic can make up all kinds of deficiency and cure all kinds of diseases, so we can't ignore Lee. Z's "Three Four" and only use several tonics. There are four kinds of deficiency syndromes in TCM: deficiency of both qi and blood and deficiency of both yin and yang. For patients with yin-yang deficiency, qi-blood deficiency, multiple diseases occurring at the same time and complicated conditions, such as metabolic disorder accompanied by "four highs", that is, hyperlipidemia, hyperglycemia, hypertension and hyperuricemia, in accordance with the spirit of syndrome differentiation and treatment, careful observation, comprehensive analysis, careful compatibility, rational drug use, tonic "right path" and appropriate reinforcement and diarrhea can be effective.
People who have no deficiency syndrome, especially teenagers, don't need to make up for it. Some people expect too much from winter tonic, and think that tonic is better than no tonic. They are in good health and look forward to a so-called "extraordinary play" through winter tonic. Tonifying in winter is actually based on tonic, giving consideration to treating diseases and eliminating evil spirits. Its main function is to restore the health of those who are deficient or insufficient due to illness and those who are in sub-health state, improve the quality of life and prolong their life. The so-called "extraordinary play" is unrealistic. For healthy people, "medicine tonic is not as good as food tonic". Balanced nutrition and proper exercise are more important and can completely replace drug supplements.
Don't over-supplement and over-supplement tonics. Most of them are thick and greasy, which will lead to "extremes meet". Too much tonic will exceed the body's normal ability to absorb nutrients, and there will be other side effects. Children's digestive system is in an immature and mature stage, and improper or excessive tonic can easily lead to indigestion and absorption, so children should not take tonic. For people with spleen and stomach weakness and loss of appetite, drugs that strengthen the spleen and stimulate appetite should be added to the tonic, and the amount should be reduced slowly. Once anorexia and severe abdominal distension occur, tonic should be suspended, and the stomach should be adjusted before taking it.
To prevent "closing the door to defend the enemy", it is not appropriate to make up for it too early when the external evils are not exhausted. In principle, external evils should be removed before tonic. When exogenous pathogens are mild, drugs such as Radix Astragali and Radix Saposhnikoviae can also be added to tonics to achieve the purpose of "strengthening the body resistance without leaving pathogens, and eliminating pathogens does not harm the body resistance".