Animal food is undoubtedly a good tonic, which is not only nutritious, but also delicious. However, meat is not easy to digest and absorb. If it is eaten for a long time, it will often be overwhelmed for the elderly whose gastrointestinal function has declined.

Some "by-products" in the process of meat digestion, such as excessive lipids, sugars and other substances, are usually the causes of common diseases and frequently-occurring diseases in the elderly, such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and cancer.

2, regardless of 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 at least be divided into two categories: cold and heat. 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 thin, their urine is long, their tongue is pale and their pulse is heavy.

People who are too hot have symptoms such as hot hands and feet, dry mouth and bitter taste, dry stool and short and red urine. You can't fix it. If you eat medicated diet regardless of cold and heat, it is easy to lose more than you gain.

3, the more the better

Excessive use of any tonic 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 too much, it will cause bloating and not think about diet; Excessive use of vitamin C can lead to nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.

Step 4 make up for illness

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.

5. Take medicine as food.

Don't make up for it. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that autumn is a season suitable for tonic, but it should be noted that daily tonic should not be made indiscriminately. It should be noted that tonic can't be made without illness, and it can't be made indiscriminately. It should be noted that the tonic should be appropriate, and it is forbidden to take medicine.

Because many foods also have therapeutic effects. For example, eating celery 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 tonify the spleen and stomach.

The food supplement mainly nourishes yin and moistens dryness, specifically including black-bone chicken, pig lung, bird's nest, tremella, honey, sesame, soybean milk, lotus root, walnut, coix seed, peanut, duck egg, spinach and pear. These foods are more effective when used in combination with other beneficial foods or traditional Chinese medicines.

6. Pay more attention to "in" than "out"

With the improvement of living standards, many families have meat and fish every day, and the food is greasy. 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.

Therefore, in recent years, health experts put forward a new concept of health care that pays attention to "negative nutrition", that is, paying attention to the discharge of human excreta, reducing the retention and absorption of "enterotoxin", and advocating timely and unobstructed defecation while supplementing.

7. Always put on makeup.

Some people like to take some tonic according to their own tastes, and then change from constant for many years to partial eclipse, which is not good for their health. Because drugs and food not only have health care and therapeutic effects, but also have some side effects, long-term use of various tonics will affect the nutritional balance in the body.

8. The more expensive the better.

"Rare things are precious", and those high-grade traditional foods such as bird's nest and shark's fin have no peculiar dietotherapy function, 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", which cannot be divided according to the level, especially for the elderly, based on the principle of practical low price.

9. Too much fat in autumn

Obese people should pay attention to losing weight. First of all, we should pay attention to the adjustment of diet and eat more low-calorie diet foods, such as adzuki beans, radishes, bamboo shoots, coix seed, kelp and mushrooms. Secondly, pay attention to increase the consumption of calories and increase activities in a planned way.

These are some common misunderstandings about winter tonic introduced by Bian Xiao. If you have the same idea, please correct it quickly. Only by combining your physical condition with the doctor's advice can you really achieve the purpose of tonic.