Treating the "heart" of the elderly: Traditional Chinese medicine experts give advice on winter tonic

Paste prescriptions are prescriptions with different combinations based on compound decoctions and according to different constitutions and clinical manifestations. They are prescriptions with comprehensive effects of nutrition, nourishment, prevention and treatment. After soaking, decocting, concentrating and collecting paste, they are refined and processed into thick pastes.

Generally, you need to use a "preparation to open the door" first, that is, first make a diagnosis based on your personal constitution and try taking a few doses of Chinese herbal decoctions. The purpose is to observe the efficacy of the medicine and see if it suits your personal constitution, so as to optimize the use of the paste prescription and enhance the efficacy.

The Chinese people have a long-standing habit of taking tonic in winter. As the saying goes, "Taking tonic with ointments in winter will help you fight tigers in the spring of next year." Traditional Chinese medicine believes that taking tonic ointments in winter can balance yin and yang, dredge meridians, and harmonize qi and blood. In cold seasons, due to the decline of body functions and low resistance, it is more appropriate to take tonic. Taking tonic ointments can enhance the body's immune function, improve nutritional status, and promote recovery. So, what are the considerations for the efficacy of ointments, the applicable population, the tonic season, and the precautions?

1. Effects of Paste

1. Replenishing the deficiency and supporting the weak, regulating the yin and yang of the internal organs: Children and adolescents have insufficient vitality, and the middle-aged and elderly have weak qi, blood, yin and yang. Paste prescriptions can improve the body's resistance of children and adolescents and the middle-aged and elderly by harmonizing qi, blood, yin and yang, replenishing the deficiency and supporting the weak, and supporting the positive energy.

2. Prevent and cure diseases, prolong life and beautify: Winter tonic can prevent repeated colds, coughs, rhinitis and other diseases caused by insufficient resistance. It can also delay aging, beautify the skin, and strengthen the internal organs and bones.

2. Applicable groups

Children: repeated colds, rhinitis, anorexia and picky eating, indigestion, constipation, diarrhea, slow development, etc.

Women: Menstrual disorders, postpartum nourishment, weak constitution, beauty and skin care.

Middle-aged and elderly people: chronic cardiopulmonary diseases, chronic gastrointestinal diseases, bone and joint diseases, insomnia, nightmares, etc.

3. Tonic Season

1. Winter tonic: "If you take tonic in winter, you can fight tigers in spring." Autumn and winter are important seasons for tonic. The human body's digestive function is enhanced, and nutrients are easily absorbed and stored in the body. Winter tonic can easily strengthen the body and enhance resistance.

2. Four-season tonic: Paste prescriptions have tonic, therapeutic and preventive effects. Therefore, as long as the body is weak, such as middle-aged and elderly people recuperating from chronic diseases, young and middle-aged people weak after surgery, children with insufficient physical fitness, etc., paste prescriptions can be used for treatment all year round.

IV. Precautions

1. Dosage: Take 1 hour before or after meals, half an hour before going to bed; take directly orally, take with warm water, or mix with rice wine; 15-20ml each time, 1-2 times a day.

2. Avoid eating during the period of taking the ointment: avoid eating raw, cold, greasy, spicy and other foods that are difficult to digest and have special irritants;

3. It is better to have one prescription and one ointment for each person: "One medicine has one property, and there are hundreds of prescriptions for hundreds of diseases."