Winter is coming. In winter, the metabolism of the human body slows down to maintain physical strength as much as possible, but it also reduces the ability of the human body to resist diseases. Indeed, the mortality rate in most parts of the world is the highest in winter, and winter is also a period of high incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and respiratory diseases. However, people do not have to wait passively. Through the weather forecast, they can skillfully "decipher" the omen of the disease and take active preventive measures. Winter begins in beginning of winter, and passes through light snow, heavy snow, winter solstice, slight cold and severe cold until the day before in beginning of spring. "In winter, the heavens and the earth are combined, and the water and ice are frozen." Judging from the growth law of everything in nature, winter is the season when everything hides, and nature is full of yin and yang decline, and everything hides yang for the next spring. The wind in winter is the north wind, which is very cold. "Cold" is the main feature of winter climate change. So winter health care is more important. Eating and drinking well in winter "supplements in winter and kills tigers in spring", an old saying left by our ancestors, has become the biggest reason for people to keep healthy in winter today. So medicine supplements food and goes into battle, hoping to make up a healthy body. Chinese medicine experts believe that tonic must be carried out under the guidance of experts, or blindly listen to some rumors, which may eventually make up for the side effects. Some examples from previous years hope to give you some reminders. Xiao Lin's grandmother is a famous cook because she has pimples on her face after eating goat milk soup. Every winter, she tries her best to cook some soup and stew some soup for the whole family. Kobayashi clearly remembers that her grandmother forced her to eat longan lotus seed soup the year before last, and what Ejiao she ate last year, she really didn't like it. But in order to make the old man happy, I closed my eyes and ate. This year, to her surprise, grandma's brilliant idea turned out to be "sheep cream soup", a miraculous woman who asked people everywhere to get a goat from northern Jiangsu. It is said that she has never eaten feed. After the slaughter, she ate some braised goat mutton, and the rest of the bones and leg of lamb were dissolved in goat cream soup. Grandma added red dates, longan, walnuts, rock sugar and so on. When it comes to soup, it is simply cooked in a honeycomb coal stove that has not been used for many years, which is more convenient than changing gas with slow fire. In order to make grandma happy, Xiaolin brought back two lunch boxes and put them in the refrigerator at home. When you feel hungry, put a bowl in the microwave and eat it for one minute. You can eat three bowls at a time when you are hungry. She thinks it is very nutritious. Maybe after a while, her skin will get better and better. What Kobayashi never expected was that many "pimples" broke out on his face inexplicably and his mouth began to fester. After consulting a friend who studied Chinese medicine, Fang suddenly realized that goat milk soup is rich in nutrition. As a tonic, just eat a small bowl on an empty stomach every day. The blind way of taking whatever you want will naturally lead to excessive tonic, and it is difficult for the body to absorb so much nutrition, which will of course be sent out. After retirement, Professor Zhang often listens to some health lectures and carefully records various acupoints. Last winter, he designed himself a winter tonic plan. According to the fact that the doctor said that he was short of this and that on weekdays, he bought himself all kinds of nutritional and health foods that can replenish brain, calcium and trace elements. The height of the packing box alone exceeds 1 m. After eating for two months, I felt unwell and went to the hospital for examination. As a result, I found that his liver was calcified because of too much tonic, and he had to be hospitalized. Excessive attention to the body, lack of nutrition knowledge and incorrect guidance of some advertisements are the main reasons for the proliferation of various nutritional supplements among the elderly. In fact, the core of nutrition is rationality. Although legally produced nutrients do have their corresponding functions, these nutritious elderly people can get them from food. As long as the old man is not picky about food, he will not lack anything. Even if some nutrition needs to be supplemented, it needs to be decided by the doctor. Experts remind the public that supplements must be appropriate and reasonable, and cannot be blindly supplemented. Supplementing the whip with a whip may not bring sexual happiness. In winter, Uncle Zhang, who has worked hard for his children and grandchildren for a long time, is busy buying traditional kidney-tonifying items such as velvet antler and turtle for his newly-married grandson, thinking that eating seal whip and deer whip can "tonify kidney and strengthen yang", which seems to be a way for many elders to care for their younger generation. Experts believe that eating these items casually can not only help sexual life, but may be harmful to health. After the eaten animal "whip" enters the human body, like other foods, it will be digested and absorbed by the digestive tract, and then it will become protein, fat, sugar and other nutrients, and then it will be used by the human body instead of supplementing what organs it eats. In addition, the animal's "whip" itself is not more than other foods and does not contain any special nutrients. Even some androgens contained in the "whip" of animals have been destroyed after heating and digestion, so it is meaningless to use it to strengthen yang. For the practice of supplementing velvet antler, experts believe that any kind of tonic has certain adaptation symptoms, and it is not necessary for young men to take it at will. Even if necessary, it should be done under the guidance of a doctor. In fact, the earliest pharmaceutical monograph in China, Shennong Materia Medica Classic, records that Chinese dates, sesame seeds, honey, grapes, lotus seeds, yams, walnuts and other foods have the functions of tonifying kidney, benefiting essence and helping yang, and play an important role in maintaining and improving male sexual function. Proper diet adjustment can also improve the body. Many people have the consciousness that abusing ginseng is tantamount to killing people for money, but people don't have a deep understanding of how to make up for it. Many people think that anything with high nutritional value, whether it is food, nutrition or medicine with health care function, belongs to the scope of winter tonic. Therefore, the abuse of supplements occurs from time to time. For example, Xu Dachun, a famous doctor in Qing Dynasty, pointed out that the abuse of ginseng is equal to killing people for money. Xu believes that ginseng is expensive and has a certain nourishing effect, but its application premise should be physical weakness and deficiency of qi and blood. If you give ginseng to people with strong physique and stagnation of phlegm and fire, it will not only not nourish, but also aggravate the condition. In this way, patients not only spend money, but also do harm to their health. What's the difference between quack practicing medicine and killing people for money? Improper use can also damage health. Mr. Zhang has been strictly taking tonics prescribed by Chinese medicine since last winter. But later, because he was going on a business trip for two weeks, he found it inconvenient to bring nourishing cream. He thought it was nourishing anyway, so he ate it all early and late, so he ate nourishing cream for two weeks in advance. As a result, my stomach suddenly reacted and I felt uncomfortable all over. I was rushed to the hospital for treatment. Blindly eating nourishing cream will eventually damage your health. Professor Shi Qi, a famous Chinese medicine practitioner and president of the Shanghai Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine, told the reporter that many people think that the cream is used for tonic and can be eaten at any time. This idea is really wrong. Cream prescription is a profound knowledge, which is the comprehensive result of medicine, medicine and industry, and its processing is quite particular. The medicinal materials should be fried separately on the main road, and the fine materials should be carefully controlled when adding glue. When adding sugar, pay attention to whether it sticks to the pot or burns. The cream made with such great efforts also has strict regulations when taking it. You must follow the doctor's advice and remind experts repeatedly that the tonic is good and cannot be abused. Whether the human body needs nutrition and how it should be nourished vary from person to person. Generally speaking, physical deficiency is different from yin deficiency, yang deficiency, qi deficiency and blood deficiency; Physical characteristics, such as easy to get angry, warm and cold, weak kidney-qi, bad spleen and stomach, etc., are different ... blindly supplementing without analysis will inevitably violate the precepts of deficiency and excess. For example, people with weak spleen and stomach abuse greasy products such as ointment, which will make people's spleen and stomach weaker; People who get angry easily will get angry even more if they eat antler isothermal supplements indiscriminately. To this end, if you want to supplement, you should choose the corresponding nourishing food and nursed back to health drugs under the guidance of relevant professionals and according to everyone's specific situation. Only in this way can we really achieve the purpose of tonic. "Bottom-up" winter tonic before tonic is a fine tradition of health care in China. Whether the tonic is right or not depends on whether the tonic is appropriate. There is also a very important point: whether there has been a "bottom supplement" before the tonic. "Bottom tonic" refers to harmonizing the stomach. Generally speaking, nourishing tastes sweet, easy to be greasy, easy to hold your breath, and hinder the stomach; Moreover, most people who need tonic have weak spleen and stomach and poor digestive function. Therefore, we should pay special attention to the function of regulating the spleen and stomach when supplementing, especially those who are deficient and do not supplement. Before tonic, they should take drugs to strengthen the spleen and stomach, promote digestion and regulate qi, so that the spleen and stomach can gradually adapt to the absorption of tonic. There are many ways to "fill the bottom", such as pill powder paste soup, which can regulate the spleen and stomach. Here is a simple herbal tea therapy. This herbal tea therapy, represented by "harmonizing stomach instead of tea", was originally used by imperial doctors in Qing Dynasty to recuperate after illness, and later became a major feature of drug use in Qing Dynasty. We apply this method to the conditioning before tonic, and improve it into several kinds of stomach tea, which has the same effect for different patients. 1, spleen and stomach weakness, loss of appetite: yam 15g, dried tangerine peel 10g, poria cocos 10g. * * * Put it into a small casserole, add about 300ml of water, and boil it for 10 ~ 15min, then take the juice. Then add about 150 ml of water and decoct for 2-3 times, then combine the liquid medicines, filter, and drink the filtrate frequently without tea. /kloc-after conditioning with stomach tea for 0/5 ~ 30 days, the appetite is enhanced and the spleen and stomach are harmonious, so you can start tonic. 2. Patients with frequent abdominal distension and indigestion: hawthorn 10g, dried tangerine peel 10g, and woody root 5g. * * * Put it into a small casserole, add about 300ml of water, and boil it for 10 ~ 15min, then take the juice. After doing this for 2 ~ 3 times, the liquid medicines are combined, filtered, and the filtrate is frequently used for tea drinking. Similarly, generally, after 15 ~ 30 days, the patient's digestive function is enhanced and his spleen and stomach are healthy, so he can start tonic. "Bottom tonic" followed by tonic can not only avoid the situation of deficiency but also make the drug play a nourishing role to the maximum extent. Herbal tea therapy is mild, simple and effective, and it is a good "bottom-up" method.