Ordinary people should take tonics.
Food supplement is a method to strengthen the body by using different properties and nutrients of food, so as to promote health and prolong life.
The so-called ordinary people refer to people who are completely healthy, or in an incomplete health state to varying degrees, but have not formed a sick state. The latter is a sub-health state between health and disease, which needs to be nursed back to health. Complementary food is generally mild in taste and nourishing. Therefore ... ordinary people, the elderly, the infirm, the people with poor health, the people recovering from illness, etc. , you can use the method of food supplement. Through daily diet, according to people's physical strength, the characteristics of zang-fu organs and yin-yang, and according to the nature, taste, function and nutritional value of food, reasonable diet can enhance the ability to resist various pathogenic factors. As the book "Supporting the Aged and Protecting the Parents" says: "When people get old, their true qi is exhausted and their five internal organs are weak, and they all rely on diet to replenish their qi and blood." Sun Simiao also pointed out: "Eating can dispel pathogenic factors, strengthen viscera, refresh the mind and nourish qi and blood. If you can eat it, the relief of the disease can be described as a good job, a method of attracting old people for many years, and a technique of health preservation. "
Medicine is medicinal and food is edible. Like medicinal properties, eating habits can also be divided into cold, warm, cold, bitter and salty. Therefore, in addition to its own nutritional value, each food has the same sexual and taste functions as drugs. Ordinary people's food supplement is to use the dual functions of food, not only to increase nutrition, but also to use the different tastes of food to regulate human qi, blood, yin and yang, enhance physical fitness, and resist diseases and prolong life.
Ordinary people should make food supplements according to their own physique, suit their own tastes, implement the principle of "stomach is willing to make up" and achieve "food supplements are self-adaptive". Failure to make up causes abdominal distension, abdominal distension and loss of appetite; Or because of overnutrition and excessive calories, obesity is formed.
Drug supplement of constitutional deviation
Medicinal tonic refers to the method of supplementing yin and yang, qi and blood of human body with tonic or prescription, so as to strengthen the body, prevent diseases and resist aging.
Herbal tonic has a long history in China, and many tonics and prescriptions have been recorded in Chinese medicine literature in past dynasties. According to statistics, among the 1892 drugs listed in Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica in the Ming Dynasty, there are more than 70 kinds of drugs that clearly contain the functions of "anti-aging", "intelligence", "longevity" and "prolonging life", and there are more than 0/00 kinds of drugs commonly used at present.
The supplement of drugs has a clear role and a complementary role. Therefore, it is generally only suitable for those who have obvious indications of deficiency of viscera, yin and yang, qi and blood. When using it, we should differentiate syndromes from yin and yang, qi and blood, viscera, meridians and other aspects, and choose the corresponding prescription. In the specific application, we should follow the principle of making supplements according to the time and avoid abusing tonics.
It varies from person to person, that is to say, drugs should be supplemented according to the specific situation of individuals. Everyone's physique is different, so the specific situation inside and outside is also different. Therefore, the variety, dosage and medication time of tonic can not be the same. Generally speaking: ① For those who are deficient in essence, it is advisable to choose some flesh-and-blood products such as donkey-hide gelatin, placenta hominis and velvet antler. ② For patients with yin deficiency, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Polygonum Multiflori Radix, Liuwei Dihuang Pill and Dabuyin Pill should be selected. ③ For those with yang deficiency, aconite, cinnamon, Jingui Shenqi Pill and Guilingji should be selected. ④ For patients with qi deficiency, ginseng, astragalus root, Sijunzi decoction and Shiquan Dabu pill should be selected. ⑤ Patients with blood deficiency should choose Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Siwu Decoction and Radix Angelicae Sinensis Buxue Decoction. Traditional Chinese medicine advocates that qi and blood should be supplemented together in order to achieve complementary effects.
Timely replenishment is to make up in the right season according to the individual's specific situation. Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes that "man corresponds to heaven and earth". Similarly, the tonic method should also be selected according to personal physique and four seasons climate. Generally speaking, in the cold season of March 9, the effect of applying Chinese medicine tonic should be better. This is because winter is the season when everything is hidden, and the human body is also in a state of inhibition or low physiological function. At this time, taking medicine for tonic can promote the functional activities in the body and enhance the vitality of the viscera. In addition, traditional Chinese medicine supplements are mostly warm products. At this time, tonic can increase heat to resist the invasion of external cold, but in other seasons, it is in danger of "adding fuel to the fire".
Although the cold season on March 9 is the best time for tonic, it should be treated separately. For example, in the hot summer, in addition to diet adjustment, you can also choose some tonics that are cool, invigorating qi and promoting fluid production, and strengthening the spleen and stomach, such as Codonopsis pilosula, Pseudostellaria heterophylla, auricularia auricula, yam, jujube and so on. Dry in autumn, appropriate use codonopsis pilosula, Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Asparagi, Radix Ophiopogonis, Radix Adenophorae, etc.