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Why do you say winter tonic, spring tiger?
Although there is a saying that "winter supplements kill the tiger", if it can be properly supplemented in the spring when everything recovers, its effect is no less than that in winter. This is the "Spring Health Classic" that the reporter recently learned from Zhao Zhifu, the chief physician of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Guang 'anmen Hospital, Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Attention adjustment in spring has its uniqueness. According to the theory of spring, long summer, autumn harvest and winter storage, spring is the time when the temperature of nature rises and the yang gradually flourishes. At the same time, according to the TCM theory of "man corresponds to heaven and earth", the yang of human body also conforms to nature in spring, showing the phenomenon of upward and outward relaxation. At this time, if it can be suitable for tonic, it will be the best season for physical investment in a year. In addition, spring frequently-occurring diseases, such as pneumonia, hepatitis, meningitis, measles, mumps, allergic asthma, myocardial infarction and so on. It is also related to malnutrition in winter. At this time, if it can be adjusted in time, it is a kind of "remedy". People who are "depressed" and "irritable" and have diametrically opposite temperament are important targets for spring tonic. Director Zhao introduced that people with depression are usually considered introverted. Often manifested as abdominal distension, spleen and stomach weakness, depression, loss of appetite, pale tongue with white fur and other symptoms. They belong to the category of traditional Chinese medicine and belong to the type of "stagnation of liver qi" People who are irritable and irritable are usually regarded as extroverts, and often show symptoms such as overweight, upset and irritable, red tongue and yellow fur, which belong to the category of traditional Chinese medicine. For these two groups of people, it is the first choice to give traditional Chinese medicine decoction of "soothing liver and regulating qi" and "softening liver and clearing heat" respectively. In addition, in the spring diet, patients with depression should selectively eat more fragrant fennel, radish and orange, and take Astragalus membranaceus 10g, 3 slices of ginger, 5 pieces of jujube and decoction instead of tea. People with quick temper and irritability should choose bitter and sour bitter gourd and hawthorn, take chrysanthemum 10g, cassia seed 10g and licorice 3g, and decoct them to make tea. There is a saying in TCM health care: "Spring is liver-oriented, summer is heart-oriented, long summer is spleen-oriented, autumn is lung-oriented, and winter is kidney-oriented." Therefore, spring tonic should be based on "nourishing the liver". Nourishing the liver in spring is to adjust the mood first, that is, to keep a good mood and not to get angry. In addition, the medicated diet in spring should be nursed back to normal, and warm tonics should not be used blindly, so as to avoid the rising temperature in spring, aggravating the internal heat of the body and damaging the healthy qi of the human body.