Paste Miscellany

Winter is a good opportunity to take tonic, and cream is becoming more and more a good way for people to take care of themselves, and there are a lot of patients who come to the clinic to consult about cream. 1. What is a prescription? Paste prescription is an important part of Chinese medicine and is one of the eight traditional dosage forms: pill, powder, paste, dan, wine, dew, soup and ingot. Individualized poultice medicine taken internally is getting more and more attention. 2. What does poultice do to the human body? Poultice is a compound preparation of Chinese herbal medicine, which regulates the functions of the internal organs of the human body through multiple targets and improves the body’s ability to prevent and fight diseases. 3. When is the best time to take poultices? Traditional Chinese medicine believes that according to the viewpoint of “heaven and man correspond to each other”, winter is the main “seal and hide”, so winter is the best time to take poultices. Modern doctors prescribe four-season prescriptions to nourish the body is also often seen. 4. What are the people for whom the prescription is suitable? There are two major aspects of cream prescriptions: one is to regulate the undiseased and the other is to cure the diseased. The people for whom the prescription is suitable are the sub-healthy people and the middle-aged and elderly people. Sub-healthy people’s constitution is biased, such as biased qi deficiency, biased qi-depression, or biased phlegm-dampness, or biased blood stasis, etc.. Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners can adjust the body according to different body types to achieve a healthy state of calmness and harmony as much as possible. As the body ages, the function of the internal organs of the middle-aged and elderly will decline, so the prescription can slow down the aging process. It can be used for the treatment of diseases alone, especially for the consolidation of chronic diseases. Because it has good taste, is easy to carry and take, and supports the weakness, it can be applied to the recovery of physical weakness after a long illness. Unlike general Chinese medicine, poultices are designed by doctors according to specific physique and are highly targeted, so they are helpful for people’s health care.