When it comes to daily tonic, you must be familiar with it. Just like in winter, we will choose mutton, beef and other foods to keep out the cold and resist diseases and store energy for the body; In summer, due to the hot weather and poor appetite, people will choose watermelon, bitter gourd and other heat-clearing and detoxification products to avoid overheating food.

It is in this way that the daily health care of the human body can adapt to the changes of seasons and achieve better results. According to different seasons, constitutions and diseases, tonic methods of traditional Chinese medicine can be divided into five categories: big tonic, nourishing, warming tonic, clearing tonic and flat tonic. Are these methods clearly distinguished? Let's see which one suits you!

First, strict compensation.

Features: Strong nourishing ability, can play a greater role in a short time. For example, ginseng, a single medicine, can greatly replenish vitality, and velvet antler can seriously replenish Yuanyang.

Suitable for people: people who are extremely weak and need to take supplements as soon as possible.

Note: it should be adjusted according to the changes of physique, illness and season, otherwise long-term supplementation will lead to nosebleeds and other problems.

Second, nourishing.

Features: The medicine is greasy and has good nourishing effect, and can treat diseases such as blood deficiency and yin deficiency, such as donkey-hide gelatin tonic.

Applicable seasons: autumn and winter.

Note: it is easy to get angry, and spleen deficiency is not easy to absorb.

Third, warm up

Characteristics: This medicine is mild in nature and can tonify and warm. For example, Epimedium and Curculigo can warm and tonify kidney yang.

Suitable for people: suitable for people who are physically weak and afraid of cold, such as those who are afraid of cold and have mental fatigue symptoms.

Suitable seasons: winter and spring.

Note: Thermal constitution is not suitable.

Fourth, clean up

Features: the medicine is cold and cool, which is both tonic and clear, such as single medicine Ophiopogon japonicus and Coix seed.

Suitable for people: people who are suitable for real heat constitution.

Suitable seasons: summer and autumn.

Note: Cold constitution is not applicable.

Verb (abbreviation for verb) fixed compensation

Features: warm, cold but not dry, such as dangshen and yam.

Suitable for the crowd: suitable for people with various constitutions, generally those with weak constitutions.

Suitable for season: it can be taken all year round.

At present, it has entered the summer solar term, and the weather is already hot. If your body is not too weak, it is more appropriate to choose tonic or flat medicine for tonic. Among them, the flat tonic is suitable for all kinds of people and can be used in all seasons to make you feel more at ease.