"Autumn and winter supplementation" is a major feature of TCM health care "cure disease", TCM believes that "heaven and man are one", that is, people should conform to natural changes and live in accordance with natural laws. In autumn and winter, the climate turns cold, the yin qi becomes strong, and the yang qi is hidden, so the cold is easy to invade the body, making the human body qi and blood blocked, affecting health. Therefore, in autumn and winter, it is very helpful to supplement the body and help the yang and resist the cold, which is very helpful for preventing diseases and delaying aging.
Is autumn and winter supplement suitable for everyone?
"Yellow Emperor Neijing" has a saying that "the virtual is supplemented, the actual is diarrhea", the "virtual" mentioned here refers to the decline in the body's ability to resist diseases or low physical function, Chinese medicine emphasizes that only false evidence is used to supplement, not false evidence does not use supplementation.
That is to say, the autumn and winter supplements are aimed at the people with false evidence or the people with false evidence mixed with the evidence, and the simple empirical group is not suitable. Therefore, the objects of autumn and winter supplements are generally those with weak physique, overwork and overdraft, or those who have recovered from serious illnesses and lost qi and blood after surgery. Improper supplementation, the most expensive herbs used on the body have no effect, and may even be counterproductive. Abuse of tonics, dampness and heat, affect the balance of the human body, resulting in yin and yang imbalance.
How to preliminarily determine whether supplements are needed?
Chinese medicine roughly divides human physique into nine categories: peaceful quality, qi deficiency, yang deficiency, yin deficiency, phlegm wet, moist heat, blood stasis, qi depression and special temperament.
These nine physiques do not all need to be supplemented, of which the four physiques of damp heat, phlegm, blood stasis, and qi depression are real physiques, and not only do not need to be supplemented, but also need certain diarrhea. The three kinds of physiques of qi deficiency, yang deficiency and yin deficiency are hypotrophic physiques and need to be supplemented, of which qi deficiency and yang deficiency belong to the cold physique, commonly known as "cold bottom", and yin deficiency belongs to the hot physique, commonly known as "hot bottom". There are still many people who belong to the complex physique of virtual and real, this situation is relatively complicated, how to supplement can consult a professional doctor.
How to supplement different hypotrophic physiques?
Qi deficiency
Features: yellowish complexion, soft muscles, low voice, shortness of breath and lazy speech, easy to fatigue, lack of energy, easy to sweat, prone to colds, women have less menstruation, light color.
Ganwen or Ganping drugs are commonly used to replenish the qi of the internal organs, such as ginseng, dang ginseng, prince ginseng, astragalus, baishu, poria, jujube, ganoderma lucidum, yellow essence, angelica and so on.
Recommended medicinal food:
Ginseng peanut stew pork hand
Ingredients: 1 pig hand, 50 grams of peanuts with clothes, 15 grams of ginseng, 15 grams of astragalus, 100 grams of southern milk (curd milk), cooking wine, salt to taste.
Method: Pork hand dehaired boiling water blanched, washed and cut into pieces, peanuts washed, and then the ginseng, astragalus, cooking wine, water, southern milk together into the pot and boiled.
Effect: Tonify lungs and spleen, nourish qi and blood, beauty and beauty.
Suitable for people: This medicinal diet is suitable for all ages, especially for women who love beauty, for those who have insufficient milk after childbirth, as well as the effect of nourishing qi and blood, nourishing blood and milk.
Precautions: The spleen and stomach digestive function of the elderly is poor, and it is not advisable to eat more than enough to eat in moderation.
Yang deficiency
Features: cold limbs, summer and winter resistance, tiredness and lying, long urine, easy stool is not formed.
Commonly used sweet and warm, spicy drugs to warm and replenish yang qi, such as appendages, deer horn gum, bayonet, epimedium, cinnamon, bone fat, silk seeds and so on. According to the theory of yin-yang complementarity, yin and yang can be added to the yin tonic at the same time as warming the yang, such as cooked ground, mountain meat, and yam.
Stewed partridge in the day
Ingredients: 50g cooked ground, 30g of Bayan tian, 20g of yam, 1 partridge, a little ginger.
Directions: Partridges are washed and cut into small pieces after hair removal and internal organs; put the above medicines and partridges together in a stew cup, add 3 bowls of water, steam for 2 hours and season with salt.
Benefits: Strengthens the spleen and benefits the kidneys.
Yin deficiency
Features: lean red face, irritability, dry skin, dry mouth and throat, dry stool, easy to sleep well.
Commonly used sweet and cold medicine to supplement yin, nourishing liquid, moisturizing, moisturizing, such as ground yellow, sand ginseng, yam, wheat winter, tiandong, mulberry, female virgin, ink dry lotus, dendrobium, jade bamboo, turtle shell gum, ejiao, etc.
Sand ginseng jade bamboo wheat winter soup
Ingredients: 500 grams of pork tendon, 30 grams of northern sand ginseng, 30 grams of jade bamboo, 30 grams of wheat dong, 15 grams of dates, salt to taste.
method:
1: Wash the pork tendons and cut into pieces.
2: Bring to a boil in cold water, rinse and drain.
3. Wash and fold the northern sand ginseng into small pieces, and wash the jade bamboo and mai dong.
4: Add water to the soup pot and throw all the soup ingredients into it.
5: Cover the pot and bring to low heat over high heat.
6: Simmer for 1.5 hours, add salt to taste.
Effect: It has the effect of purifying the mind and calming the mind, nourishing the yin and moisturizing the dryness, and nourishing the skin. Delicious and nutritious. Regular consumption can also improve facial dark spots and pleasant appearance.
In addition to medicinal food, there are also creams
What is a cream recipe?
Traditional Chinese medicine cream is a kind of proprietary Chinese medicine with both therapeutic and preventive effects, which is a semi-liquid preparation made of repeated decoction of Chinese medicine tablets, slagging to extract juice, concentrated by evaporation, and added excipients. Cream has a long history in China and is constantly developing in clinical practice, playing a unique role in human health and longevity.
Past and present lives of the anointing party
The original cream was named after "frying". Developed from the concentrated evolution of soup medicine (decoction), where the soup pills are effective, they can be boiled and taken with cream. The Han and Tang dynasties anointed fried synonymously. The individual "frying" in the Tang Dynasty's "Thousand Golden Fangs" has been roughly consistent with modern cream recipes. In the Song Dynasty, "frying" was gradually replaced by "ointment". Basically following the style of the Tang Dynasty, the use is becoming more and more extensive, such as the Southern Song Dynasty's Qiongyu paste is still used to this day. At the same time, the habit of containing animal-like drugs in the ointment has also been handed down, and the ointment has both a therapeutic and nourishing effect at this time.
Ming and Qing pastes are more perfect and mature, at this time the name of the paste, mostly using the way of "so-and-so paste" name, the production is more standardized, the number of pastes is large, widely used. Cream refers specifically to tonic formulas, decoction refers to decoction. The Ming Dynasty anointing formula is widely recorded in various types of fang books, and the composition is simple. Qing Dynasty ointments were not only circulated in the folk, but also widely used in the court. "Qing Tai Yi Formula" contains many famous anti-aging tonic cream recipes. In the late Qing Dynasty, the composition of the cream became more and more complex, and the cream medicine often reached 20 to 30 flavors.
Modern creams are widely used in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong, especially in Shanghai. Many well-known TCM experts have experience in the preparation and application of ointments to prevent and treat diseases. If Qin Bo is not old, he is very effective in the use of ointment. Pu Fu Zhou old Chinese medicine, in the conditioning of chronic diseases, like to use cream pills slow map, clinical treatment is very much. Yan Dexin's old Chinese medicine doctor is also good at treating with ointment, which is quite influential.
In recent years, the development of the paste has entered a new stage, and the basic research results of the paste have also emerged. For example, Bei Mingke and other studies have treated chronic insomnia with "four-hour yang adjustment" cream, and while solving insomnia, all-round and multi-angle overall adjustment can significantly improve the patient's physique. Chen Keliang et al. observed the effect of Qiongyu cream on strengthening chemotherapy to inhibit cancer cell division and induce apoptosis of cancer cells. Fu Xipin et al. used self-imitated Chinese medicine ointment to treat allergic rhinitis and found that the long-term efficacy of 1 year after the end of taking the drug was significantly different from that of the control group.
Cure the disease of the ointment prescription
The well-known effect of the cream is "nourishing and strengthening the body, correcting deviations but diseases, anti-aging and prolonging years", and its traditional intention is to flat map, slow map, long effect, similar to "moisturizing silent". The formula of the cream is combined with dynamic and static, the whole complement is combined, the cream is selected, according to the conditions of the person, the flat supplement, the adjustment supplement, the clear supplement, the warm supplement, the jun supplement, so that the internal organs can restore and maintain normal physiological functions, maintain the dynamic balance, this supplement method, can seek "blood communication, disease can not be born" effect.
Supplementation is the use of the bias of the drug to correct the imbalance between yin and yang qi and blood in the human body, the purpose of supplementation is to regulate the deficiencies in all aspects of human organs, yin and yang, qi and blood, so that the body can restore balance, that is, the so-called "yin and yang secret, spirit is the cure."
Balance is the most basic main idea of TCM health care and treatment, if there is more than enough, it is actual, it will often be counterproductive. Therefore, it is necessary to supplement according to the needs, and do not indiscriminately supplement. ■
【Source: Zhongshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Author: Deng Qian, Center for The Treatment of Pre-existing Diseases】