Along with the footsteps of golden autumn, the traditional autumn and winter health tonic season is quietly approaching. Taking poultices is an ideal way to maintain health, regulate chronic diseases, and nourish and supplement in winter. It is one of the traditional internal dosage forms of Chinese medicine with advanced nutritional tonic and therapeutic preventive effects, which is highly targeted, easy to take, and has definite curative effects. control. The popular proverb “winter tonic, spring tiger” is the best description of taking the cream. Traditional Chinese medicine is concerned with the “unity of heaven and man”, and believes that people and nature should adapt to the climatic characteristics of the four seasons, “spring growth, summer growth, autumn harvest, winter storage”, the organism needs to reserve energy in autumn after vigorous growth in spring and consumption in summer heat, and also needs to cope with the severe cold in winter. To cope with the severe cold in winter, the body should be conditioned to replenish its deficiencies and reserve vigorous vitality for the coming year. Taking tonic cream is a common method of tonic, and folk in China, especially in the south, advocate winter tonic, and every winter solstice in the first month to half a month, people used to find doctors to prescribe and process into tonic cream, and take it from the winter solstice until the next spring. The prescriptions are based on the principle of identification and treatment, so that the deficiency is not left behind and the evil is not harmed. Patients who are physically weak, or who have not recovered from a serious illness, or who have deficiencies in qi and blood after childbirth or surgery, as well as patients with chronic diseases requiring long-term conditioning, can often achieve good results by taking poultices. Before prescribing a prescription, the doctor will carefully inquire into the medical history, check the tongue and pulse, and understand the patient’s physical bias. If the patient is a spleen deficiency body, dampness trapped in the middle jiao, performance of the dull chest, thick and greasy tongue and other symptoms, then rashly taking cream medicine is bound to aggravate the symptoms, resulting in the “closed door to stay ko” drawbacks, it is difficult to achieve the desired treatment purpose. Experienced doctors will first prescribe a few doses of spleen and dampness medicine to regulate the spleen and stomach, called “open road formula”, let patients take 1 to 3 weeks, the purpose is to create favorable conditions for the absorption of the cream medicine, to be clinical symptoms improve, and then prescribe the cream formula for patients to take; some doctors first tentative prescription of a few tonics, according to the patient’s reaction after taking, and then further adjust the cream formula, so that it will be more effective. Some doctors also prescribe a few doses of tonic first, and then further adjust the formula according to the patient’s response after taking it, so as to make it more suitable for the patient’s condition and constitution and achieve better results. Usually, a dose of poultice uses about 20-30 flavors of medicine, and the dose of a single flavor is generally increased by 10 times on the basis of tonics, so a dose of poultice is equal to about 10 doses of tonics. Ginseng and other precious drugs are not advocated to be decocted together with the drugs, but to be decocted separately with a gentle fire and mixed into one when the paste is collected, which can improve the curative effect and avoid the waste of precious drugs. First, soak the drug in water, preferably overnight, and boil it three times in a row, filter it, remove the dregs, and concentrate it into a coarse paste over a gentle fire, with a paste rate of about 30% for drugs and 10% for herbs. Add equal amount of sugar or honey and stir well to collect the paste. Paste brown sugar, honey should first add water in a copper vessel stirring and heating for about 5 to 10 minutes, to be used after the evaporation of water, called refining sugar or honey, the purpose is to make it viscous, easy to mix with the drug fully and evenly; can also be added according to the condition of the turtle plate gum, antler gum, donkey skin gum, etc. to collect paste. Finally bottled in a cool place ready to take. Take it twice a day, morning and evening, on an empty stomach, one tablespoon (about 15mL) each time, with appropriate amount of warm boiled water.