There is a widely known saying in the Analects of Confucius, “Forty is not confusing”. At the age of forty, most people are entering the golden age of life. The age of forty is a stage of physical and mental maturity, stability and transition. At this stage, the body’s own reserves of functional capacity began to go downhill; adaptability to the external environment decreased; resistance to various diseases decreased. And most people at this age have an old man, a young man, in the life of the heaviest burden, the most stressful time, often reduce rest and sleep, do not pay attention to exercise, it is easy to overspend physical and mental health. And when fatigue accumulates to a certain level will bring about a decline in body functions, immunity and regulation, a variety of diseases also naturally come. Common diseases among middle-aged people include hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, stroke, malignant tumors, diabetes, osteoporosis, etc., and even die young, which makes people stifled. So people over forty, especially need to pay attention to their physical condition, in the attention to do a good combination of work and rest at the same time, supplement deficiency has become another major treasure to maintain good health. In daily life, many middle-aged people often lack the knowledge to identify tonic, and do not understand that there are contraindications to tonic, so they go into the misunderstanding of tonic, the most serious of which is the abuse of tonic and emergency tonic. Some families have tonic, do not eat for fear of expiration and waste, so the family all tonic, the results are counterproductive. Some diabetic patients do not understand that many tonic creams contain certain syrup, is not suitable for them, because of the eagerness to cure the disease and mistakenly eat the cream containing syrup. I have seen a lot of indiscriminate tonic patients. For example, a middle-aged patient with hypertension, who is usually very hot, heard that deer antler can strengthen the kidneys and yang, so he took a lot of it, and as a result, his blood pressure got higher and higher, and eventually he had a life-threatening cardiovascular accident. Another patient with gastric and duodenal ulcer stewed pork belly with about 30 grams of alligator ginseng and suffered gastric bleeding the next day after taking it, which was more than worth it. Another tumor patient heard that snapper can nourish anti-cancer, despite the weakness of the spleen and stomach, a day to eat a pound of snapper, as a result, resulting in injury to the spleen and stomach, abdominal distension and difficulty digesting, so that the night can not sleep, aggravating the disease. The characteristics of tonic are also very different for different body types, and the main thing is to identify and treat the evidence. The principle of taking tonic products should be based on what is missing. When you start to take tonic, you must remember the slang saying of Wenzhou: “You can’t eat hot porridge in a hurry”. It is important to know that a small tonic is gold, and a trickle is another key to tonic. If the spleen and stomach function is usually poor and often loss of appetite, bloating, loose stools, etc., should first take “open road formula” to regulate the spleen and stomach, and then take tonic; if inadvertently suffer from a cold in the process of taking tonic, fever, cough, nasal congestion, etc., should first dredge the wind to relieve the surface, and then take tonic to prevent The “closed door stays invasive”. In addition, during taking tonic medicine should pay attention to avoid eating, do not take raw radish, do not drink strong tea. For example, for qi deficiency, yang deficiency physique, when taking tonic for qi and yang, avoid cold foods such as cold melons and fruits, crab and shrimp to avoid helping dampness and phlegm; for blood deficiency, yin deficiency physique, when taking tonic for blood and yin, should avoid taking ginger, onion, wine, garlic and chili pepper and other hot and spicy foods. There are four methods of tonic for deficiency, and the function is to treat it in accordance with the situation Tonic for deficiency means to restore the body’s deficiency with drugs and other methods. Tonic method is a unique term in Chinese medicine therapeutics, a treatment method for the deficiency of the body. It has quite different connotations from the concept of nutritional supplements in Western medicine in terms of nutrition. Chinese medicine discusses tonic to be based on
It is based on the rule of “treating with the trend”. Here “follow the trend” refers to the natural trend, that is, the patient’s natural disease trend and the body’s natural healing power trend. In Chinese medicine, there are different deficiencies of Qi, blood, yin and yang, so the tonic method is divided into four categories: Qi, blood, yin and yang. It is recommended that you should choose a suitable remedy or food therapy under the guidance of experts or doctors when you start to take tonic (the following tonic methods are for reference). Tonic for Qi: It is suitable for Qi deficiency, such as tiredness, shortness of breath, shortness of breath when moving, pale face, loss of appetite, loose stools, weak or large pulse, etc. Such as Radix Codonopsis and Radix Astragali. The representative formula is Si Jun Zi Tang, Tonifying Zhong Yi Qi Tang. Astragalus yam soup: use 30g of astragalus, add water and boil for half an hour, strain the dregs, put 60g of fresh yam slices, boil for about 30 minutes, add sugar to the right amount. It can be eaten as a snack in the morning and evening. For blood deficiency diseases, such as dizziness, deafness, palpitation, insomnia, dull complexion, fine or astringent pulse, etc. Such as angelica and rehmannia. Representative formula: Siwu Tang, Gui Shen Tang, Angelica Sinensis Blood Tonic Soup. Steamed egg with wolfberry: use two eggs, remove the shell, add 30g of wolfberry, a little salt, and the right amount of water and stir well, steamed with water for meals. Yin tonic: Applicable to Yin deficiency diseases, such as dry mouth, dry throat, sleeplessness, constipation, or even bone steam and hot flashes, night sweats, red tongue with little coating and fine pulse. Such as Sha Shen and Huang Jing. The representative formula is Liu Wei Di Huang Tang, Zuo Gui Wan, Da Yin Wan, etc. Gui Yuan stewed snapper: snapper a weight of more than a catty, slaughtered, remove the viscera, wash, add 50g of cinnamon, ginger, sugar, salt appropriate amount, stewed in water for 1 hour. Yang tonic: for Yang deficiency diseases, such as fear of cold limbs, cold sweating and panting, lumbar and knee weakness, diarrhea and edema, fat and light tongue, sunken and late pulse, etc. Such as deer antler and eucommia. Representative formula Jin Kui Kidney Qi Pill, Right Return Pill, etc. Cistanches and deer whisk congee: 30g of cistanches, 150~200g of deer whisk, 250g of rice, 2 stems of white onion, 3 slices of ginger, and a little salt. Deer whisk and Cistanches are washed and sliced, decoct the juice of Cistanches in a casserole, remove the dregs, add deer whisk and the right amount of water and rice and boil, then add salt, ginger, white onion, MSG and cook for porridge.