Say "Stop" to the fever of TCM health powder
Now there are stalls selling Chinese medicine powder everywhere in supermarkets and vegetable markets. They publicized the concept of "health, beauty and longevity" and won the favor of many consumers. However, in the face of dazzling array of traditional Chinese medicine powder and eager buyers, we want to say: stop!
What happened to the Chinese medicine powder market?
Not long ago, the author found in the supermarket that there are many Chinese medicine powders with simple packaging on the shelves, which are sold under the banner of "dietotherapy for health". Among them, the traditional Chinese medicine powder is mountain powder, kudzuvine root powder, salvia miltiorrhiza powder, Poria cocos powder, motherwort powder, astragalus root powder, etc. Very popular. A 30-year-old lady told me that she wanted to take motherwort powder to treat spots and regulate menstruation. An old man in his 70s said that he bought salvia miltiorrhiza powder and treated his heart disease by taking salvia miltiorrhiza powder. When the author asked them if they had asked the doctor, they all shook their heads and looked puzzled. The author picked up a bag of Chinese medicine powder and observed it carefully. It was found that only the name, net weight, unit price, total price and shelf life of the supermarket were on it, but the name, production batch number and production date of the manufacturer could not be found at all, which basically belonged to the "three noes" products.
Similarly, when the author walked into a vegetable market, the crowded booth with booming sales was also a shop dealing in Chinese medicinal powder. Different from supermarkets, this store in the vegetable market adopts the management mode of "on-site processing and on-site sales". Consumers can see that merchants chop up Chinese herbal pieces, put them into a cooking machine, grind them into powder, and then package them for sale. This kind of "visible spot" treatment and low sales price have made many elderly people feel excited. An aunt who bought Poria cocos powder said that she bought Poria cocos powder to treat eczema. When the author asked about the curative effect, the aunt shook her head and said that she still had to take medicine.
At present, the sales of traditional Chinese medicine powder in the market are very hot, but the classification is very chaotic. Some are under the banner of drugs, but there is no drug batch number, and they are not sold in designated drug sales places, but are sold together with food; Some claim that medicine and food are homologous, and they are sold together with oats and mung beans, but they keep saying that they are effective; Others regard it as a beauty product, and the words produced by a cosmetics company are also written on the outer packaging of Chinese medicine powder, but there is no hygiene license and implementation standards. The Chinese medicine powder market is really a mess!
Can eating Chinese medicine powder really cure diseases?
In life, many people think that eating Chinese medicine powder can treat simple diseases. Actually, this is a misunderstanding. Because, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, classification, treatment strategy, treatment steps, medication methods, etc. All diseases need a lot of professional knowledge as the foundation, and they need a certain professional examination to complete. Without these in-depth and meticulous work, it is difficult to effectively treat diseases only by relying on the folk saying "this medicine cures this disease and that medicine cures that disease". The relationship between diseases and drugs is not a simple one-to-one relationship. Sometimes, Party A and Party B suffer from the same disease, but their constitutions and conditions are different, and their medication is also different. More importantly, the premise of treatment is correct diagnosis. If you don't even know what disease you have, taking medicine only by feeling will often delay your illness and cause unnecessary losses.
Here is another question that is easily overlooked: Is Chinese medicine powder a medicine? Generally speaking, drugs with national drug batch numbers are sold in pharmacies and hospitals, and supermarkets and vegetable markets cannot sell drugs casually. According to experts, some Chinese medicine powders sold in supermarkets and vegetable markets are actually Chinese medicine pieces that pharmacies should sell, such as cassia seed, salvia miltiorrhiza, motherwort, astragalus root and gastrodia tuber. These pieces of traditional Chinese medicine "transformed" into Chinese medicine powder and were openly selected by anyone on the supermarket shelves, which not only brought a lot of profits to the merchants, but also brought hidden dangers to the health of consumers.
Therefore, some Chinese medicine powders have some health care functions at best. If you want to take the Chinese medicine powder bought in the vegetable market as medicine, you should stop!
Treatment and health care are two different things.
In life, many people confuse "health care" with "treatment", which is easy to cause problems. Medical experts believe that many times, traditional Chinese medicine powder only plays a health care role, and some traditional Chinese medicine powder has some auxiliary treatment effect at best. However, it is unlikely to cure the disease by drinking only a few cups of paste prepared with Chinese medicinal powder. Many people hold the idea of "strengthening the body with illness" and drink some Chinese medicine powder every day in order to avoid illness and disaster. In fact, this practice is also a misunderstanding. People's physique is not static. With the changes of age, season, different physiological stages and human qi, blood, yin and yang, people's physique is also changing. Drinking a Chinese medicine powder for a long time sometimes can't adapt to these changes, but it is harmful to human health.
In addition, taking some Chinese medicine powder for a long time will also damage health. For example, cassia seed has the effect of moistening the intestines and relaxing the bowels, but long-term large-scale use may cause intestinal lesions due to excessive stimulation of the intestines; For example, red dates can nourish blood and soothe the nerves, but their sugar content is high, and long-term large consumption may lead to obesity; Another example is yam powder. Although it has the functions of invigorating spleen and stomach, tonifying kidney and nourishing yin, it contains a lot of starch. If a diabetic wants to tonify the kidney by eating a lot of yam powder, the possible result is that the kidney is not well repaired, but the blood sugar exceeds the standard.
Therefore, if you are sick, you still need regular treatment. If you throw away the treatment advice provided by the doctor and plunge into the traditional Chinese medicine powder sold in the market to gamble on your health, it will not pay off.
Chinese medicine health, listen to what the doctor says.
Many friends want to take Chinese medicine to regulate their health, beautify and live longer. But do you know what your constitution is? What Chinese medicine is suitable for you? Can you prescribe the right medicine? Here, I would like to remind you that instead of taking medicine indiscriminately or taking the wrong medicine, it is better to go to the hospital to find a Chinese doctor to take a good look at yourself and identify your physique before taking medicine. At present, many Chinese medicine departments of large general hospitals and many Chinese medicine hospitals have set up "prevention centers" or "prevention consultation rooms". You might as well come here and ask a professional to take your pulse and look at your tongue, and ask a doctor to prescribe according to your specific situation. Never eat Chinese medicine powder casually.
Never eat Chinese patent medicine to treat a cold.
Chinese medicine divides colds into three types, namely wind-cold type, wind-heat type and summer-heat type. Cold-type cold is characterized by severe aversion to cold, mild fever, headache, obvious joint pain, heavy nasal congestion, runny nose, dry mouth without thirst, thin phlegm when coughing, inconspicuous sore throat, red tongue and thin and white fur. Wind-heat cold is characterized by severe fever, mild aversion to cold, dry throat and pain, even swelling and pain of throat and tonsil, stuffy nose, thick yellow nose, thirst and excessive drinking, red tongue edge and thin yellow fur. Summer-Wet colds are common in summer and rare in winter.
For these three types of colds, Chinese patent medicines for colds are also divided into wind-cold cold medicines, wind-heat cold medicines and summer-dampness cold medicines. Chinese patent medicines for treating wind-cold and common cold include wind-cold and common cold granules, Fang Jing granules and Ganmao Qingre granules. Chinese patent medicines for treating wind-heat cold include wind-heat cold granules, Lingqiao Jiedu pills, Sangju Ganmao tablets, Yinqiao Jiedu granules (granules) and Yinchai granules. Winter cold is generally a mixture of wind-heat and wind-cold, so it is difficult for patients to choose drugs according to their types. If you take the medicine yourself, it is more convenient to choose the medicine according to the symptoms.
Cough and runny nose at the beginning of a cold, accompanied by low fever and aches all over the body, should choose Ganmao Qingre Granule.
Acute syrup is the first choice for cough with mild white phlegm.
Heavy cough, yellow sputum, light runny nose and no fever. Symptoms have been there for several days. You can choose Antelope Qingfei Pill.
At the beginning of a cold, if the fever is above 38℃, you can use Lingqiao Jiedu Pill.
In winter and spring, colds are generally caused by internal heat and external cold, and patients often get angry. For patients with mild sore throat, Xiling Jiedu Pill or Ganmao Qingre Granule can be added with Radix Isatidis; For patients with sore throat, dry mouth, thirst, cold, low fever and dry stool, Ganmao Qingre Granule should be added with Wanqing. Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae cough syrup should be used for patients with less expectoration, dry mouth and weak constitution for a long time, and it should not be used for those with more expectoration and strong constitution, so as not to aggravate the condition. When there is excessive phlegm, heavy cough and chest tightness, pharmacists should advise patients to go to the hospital to see Chinese medicine and drink some soup instead of taking any cough syrup.
Four taboos of drinking herbal tea with excessive internal heat.
Taboo 1: Do not drink bitter cold herbal tea.
Chinese medicine says that "cold drinks will hurt the lungs" and "strong cold water will hurt the kidneys". Drinking bitter cold herbal tea is harmful to lung kidney is not good. Especially children pay more attention. Children are different from adults. Their spleen and stomach are weak and they can't stand the cold. If you drink herbal tea that ordinary adults often drink, such as herbal tea in herbal tea shops, it is too bitter and cold, and it is easy to hurt your spleen and stomach. If the spleen and stomach are deficient in cold, and the transportation is not smooth, it is easy for dampness to get angry. If you often drink herbal tea with excessive coolness, such as scented tea, coptis water, wintersweet, etc., it may have a lifelong impact on your body and it will be difficult to regulate it in the future.
Taboo 2: It is not advisable to drink herbal tea for a long time.
Herbal tea contains Chinese medicine ingredients after all. Even if it is flat, drinking too much will hurt the spleen and stomach, what's more, drinking it for years will destroy the balance of intestinal microecology, the body's immunity is weak, and the chances of suffering from respiratory tract infections, gastrointestinal diseases, allergies and other diseases will increase. Therefore, herbal tea should not be drunk for a long time.
Taboo 3: Herbal tea should not be used to treat diseases.
Sore throat, bad breath, heavy gums, constipation and so on are all symptoms of "getting angry". Just have some herbal tea. But sometimes this is not necessarily the case. Respiratory tract infection can also cause sore throat. Constipation may be due to insufficient gastric motility, and rotten teeth are usually accompanied by bad breath. If you blindly drink herbal tea to deal with it, thinking that herbal tea can also cure diseases may delay your illness.
Taboo 4: not suitable for everyone to use one side.
A pot of herbal tea is drunk by all ages, and one prescription is used by many people. It is normal according to the theory of western medicine, but it is extremely inappropriate in the view of Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes syndrome differentiation and treatment. Even if you drink herbal tea, you should use it according to the specific situation. Otherwise, drinking it may not only be ineffective, but also have side effects. Therefore, people should choose suitable herbal tea according to physical quality and symptoms.
Conclusion: No matter what the disease is, it needs symptomatic treatment. It's not good for your health to buy some Chinese medicine powder casually. Moreover, the same Chinese medicine powder should not be taken for a long time, so as not to damage health.