Traditional Chinese medicine health, pay attention to dietary supplements, the so-called "what is missing, what to make up." Based on long-term clinical experience, Chinese health care experts have accumulated many effective drugs for resisting aging and tonifying deficiency, which can be divided into several aspects: benefiting qi and nourishing blood, nourishing yin and strengthening yang. When patients or the elderly use tonics, they should be prepared according to the cause. For example, the blood gas of the elderly has dropped, which is not suitable for supplementation. Otherwise, it will be counterproductive. Another example is taking ginseng for a long time, which will lead to bloating and insomnia. Taking Tremella Dabuyin Pill for a long time may cause vomiting, salivation, nausea, anorexia and other symptoms. Excessive use of pilose antler and whole deer pills will cause symptoms such as body heat, nosebleeds, heartburn and trembling limbs. Therefore, taking supplements should be cautious, and it is best to use them under the guidance of a doctor, and you can't abuse them yourself.

Now that life is good, more people take tonics. The purpose is to keep fit and prolong life. So there are various tonics on the market, such as milk powder, calcium powder, pollen, nucleic acid, ginseng and so on. The variety, sales and consumption are unprecedented.

However, tonic must pay attention to science, not for food, but for injury. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that on the basis of health care campaign and health care, patients and the elderly should supplement nourishing drugs according to their different constitutions and the needs of disease prevention and treatment, which is helpful to treat diseases and delay aging. However, medicine is ultimately a remedy for the disadvantages. Improper use or abuse is not only useless, but also harmful. So there is a problem of dialectical tonic.

The alchemist may be too irrelevant, but it is almost extinct now. Not many people have worked hard in this regard. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there was an influential school of Chinese medicine called "the School of Tonifying the Earth". Spleen belongs to soil, which is roughly equivalent to the digestive system in modern medicine. Doctors of this school regard nourishing the spleen and stomach as the basis of treating various diseases. This is naturally related to the widespread malnutrition of the people at that time.

In the old society of China, most people were malnourished, so the concept of tonic will be passed down from generation to generation, deeply rooted in people's hearts and become a tradition. Therefore, in order to reduce blindness, we must break through the traditional concept. At present, it is said that China's average nutrient intake has exceeded the level of middle developing countries, which is certainly many times higher than that in ancient times. Whether it is necessary to amend the law as before is worth discussing.

Scientific research shows that if parents often let their children in the growing period take royal jelly, pollen food, ginseng, cordyceps and other supplements and tonics, it is easy to lead to false precocious puberty. According to experts' research, pseudoprecocious puberty caused by taking supplements often accounts for about 25% of pseudoprecocious puberty. However, this phenomenon has not attracted the attention of more parents so far. Many parents, eager to love their children, often buy some tonics for their children, hoping that their children will grow healthier and stronger, but the results may not be as expected.

Experts point out that if children are regularly supplemented with nutrition, even preschool children and even infants under one year old may suddenly have enlarged breasts, enlarged penises or vaginal discharge. In this way, it is harmful to children's physical and mental health and is not conducive to their normal growth and development.

In addition, tonic has another defect. It only pays attention to supplementing various nutrients lacking in body tissues, emphasizing "what is missing" and "form to form". This ignores the digestion, absorption, assimilation and metabolism of nutrition, and ignores the principle of reasonable nutrition-comprehensive, balanced and appropriate. Therefore, there are different degrees of limitations in efficacy, use and adaptability.

Facts have proved that excessive vitamin A and D, iron and zinc can cause poisoning; People with high blood pressure, cerebrovascular diseases, colds and dryness should not eat ginseng; People with allergies should not take pollen; As for some supplements that also contain hormones, we should be more careful when choosing them. In China, we eat for food, not only to satisfy our appetite, but also to keep fit and get rid of diseases, and the health care of this diet is centered on "tonic". Southern women should eat longan, red dates and angelica to cook black-footed chicken for the next month; Northern women eat brown sugar, millet and eggs. Although the styles are different, they are all for "making up".

Throughout history, there are different levels of compensation. Tonifying the blood with brown sugar water with thick soup color, nourishing the brain with walnuts that look like brain nuclei, or tonifying the kidney with pig kidney and spleen with sheep belly are all low-level tonics, reflecting that although ordinary people do not understand medical methods, they are inevitably naive, but they are also diligent and well-intentioned. In the middle view, it pays attention to warming and tonifying, enriching blood and benefiting qi, and replenishing medicine is divided into monarch and minister. This kind of tonic is medication in the eyes of doctors. There is also the highest tonic, that is, taking tonic to become immortal.