Recently, as the weather turns hot with the arrival of summer, we often hear a lot of false statements in Chinese medicine clinics, such as not taking Chinese medicine in summer, taking Chinese medicine gets hot, taking Chinese medicine hurts the stomach, not taking tonic medicine in summer, Chinese medicine easily deteriorates in summer, and so on. Many patients who should be treated or are being treated have blindly terminated their normal treatment and are unknowingly suffering from it. This kind of strange talk with some ignorant people in recent years on Chinese medicine, with some so-called know Chinese medicine (not Chinese medicine) doctors on Chinese medicine ignorant distortion, with a variety of media full of superstitious false propaganda advertising under the banner of Chinese medicine, the misinterpretation of Chinese medicine also more and more. And there will be more and more fallacious views and statements such as not taking Chinese medicine in summer. Ask them why they can’t take Chinese medicine in summer. The answer is that everyone says so, which is ridiculous. In fact, we just need to use our brains, reason and ask why? These misconceptions can be set right and cleared up. First of all, in terms of reasoning, Chinese medicine has been passed down in China for thousands of years, while Western medicine has been popularly used in China for less than a hundred years. Is it possible that for thousands of years our ancestors did not treat summer illnesses? Without Chinese medicine to protect the health of the Chinese nation, the Chinese nation would not have prospered and flourished. In terms of specific issues, will Chinese herbal medicine be inflammatory in summer? The clinical diagnosis and treatment of Chinese medicine has many treatment methods such as warm method (using hot medicine to dispel cold), clear method (using cool medicine to clear heat), tonic method and diarrhea method; and the basic medicinal properties of Chinese medicine are cold, cool, warm and hot four gases, sour, bitter, sweet, pungent and salty five flavors. Can you still get fire in the summer when the doctor gives you cold and heat-clearing medicine? There are many effective drugs in Chinese medicine such as clearing heat and fire, clearing heat and detoxification, clearing heat and dampness, clearing heat and summer heat, clearing head and eyes, clearing heat and throat, such as honeysuckle, dandelion, wild chrysanthemum, panax quinquefolium, big blue leaf, fat sea, yellow lily, scutellaria, yellow cypress, lotus leaf, bamboo leaf, etc., which can treat various types of heat illnesses and fire evidence. This kind of cold medicine can clear heat and dispel fire whenever you take it, so why do you say fire? Of course, the most scientific aspect of Chinese medicine is the diagnosis and treatment, there is evidence is the use of drugs, specific analysis of specific problems. All clinical use of drugs must be based on the diagnosis and treatment. If the wrong medicine is used without identification, not only can the wrong Chinese medicine be used in the summer, but also in the winter when the wrong hot medicine is used. On the contrary, inappropriate application of cool medicine in summer can also suffer from cold disease, resulting in damage to the Yang, spleen and stomach weakness, and even loss of Yang Qi, light diarrhea, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, or even cause Yang deficiency disease. Therefore, under the guidance of evidence-based treatment, if a patient suffers from a cold disease in summer, he must also use hot medicine to heat up the cold. Some people say that in hot weather in summer, it is easy to get on fire if you take more Yang tonic medicine at this time. If the patient does not have yang deficiency, how can he take yang tonics (hot medicine) by mistake, then not only in summer, but also in the cold winter, he will get on fire. In addition, there are thousands of kinds of traditional Chinese medicine (the Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine records that there are more than 12,800 kinds of traditional Chinese medicine, and there are about 300 to 400 kinds of traditional Chinese medicine commonly used in pharmacies), but there are only a few dozen kinds of Yang tonics commonly used, so how can regular Chinese medicine practitioners have the wrong habit of taking Yang tonics in summer? The classic “Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine” does have the theory of “nourishing Yang in spring and summer, and nourishing Yin in autumn and winter”. That refers to the hot weather in summer, is the most vigorous Yang Qi, if the human body has a Yang deficiency of internal cold disease, this is the right time to treat, the body’s cold is easy to get rid of, Yang Qi is easy to restore, the Yang tonic drugs used to disperse cold can be significantly reduced compared to autumn and winter, and the effect is multiplied, get twice the result with half the effort. In addition, the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine also has the theory of “Ii zhi qi leaking”, which means that the word “Ii” means the sun above and the fire below, which means that in summer, when heat is in season, the evil of heat is most likely to deplete the body’s vital energy, resulting in heat stroke, heat stroke, and other signs of depletion of Jin qi. If a clinical patient suffers from heat stroke or heat stroke with depletion of the body’s vital energy, the treatment should be to replenish the vital energy to strengthen the body. Another example is the gastrointestinal type cold (called summer dampness external sensation in Chinese medicine), which is common in summer, with the onset of chills and fever, headache and heaviness, fullness in the chest and diaphragm, pain in the stomach and abdomen, vomiting and diarrhea, and no improvement in three to five days of hanging a bottle in the western intestinal clinic. However, taking “Huo Xiang Zheng Qi Shui (pills and capsules)”, which is a Chinese herbal medicine that can relieve dampness and regulate qi and the middle of the body, can achieve satisfactory results; or even heal in less than a day. Many skin diseases, such as eczema, psoriasis, herpes zoster, sores, boils, carbuncles, urticaria, etc., can be seen in the hot summer, and Chinese medicine can be very effective in clearing heat and detoxifying, dispelling wind and relieving itching. In summer, the weather is hot and humid, the spleen and stomach are easily trapped by damp heat, the spleen and stomach are weak, the appetite is reduced, that is, the so-called bitter summer, at this time do not want to eat greasy, more like cool food, and more of the soup medicine taste bitter, more difficult to swallow, many patients have resistance to take medicine, so know that it does not make sense, but also prefer to believe it. Therefore, it would be more accurate to change the phrase “you can’t drink Chinese medicine in summer” to “you don’t want to drink Chinese medicine in summer”. Of course, the clinical treatment of Chinese medicine also pays attention to the “three factors (according to the time, place and person)”, which means that the treatment of diseases should be based on the seasons, regions, as well as the physical constitution, gender and age of the human body, and the appropriate treatment method should be developed. Since the occurrence, development and regression of diseases are influenced by various factors, such as seasonal climate, geographical environment, etc.. In particular, the physical factors of the patient have a greater impact on the disease. Therefore, when treating the disease, these factors must be taken into account, and the specific situation must be analyzed and treated differently in order to develop a suitable treatment method. For example, in the hot summer season, if the patient suffers from a cold disease, he needs to use hot medicine, the dosage should be smaller than usual; conversely, in the cold winter season, the patient suffers from a hot disease, he needs to use cold medicine, the dosage can also be smaller than usual (according to the appropriate time). If the patient has a high level of fire and is newly infected with cold, the dose of warming medicine can be smaller and the course of treatment can be shorter; if the patient has a high level of cold and is newly infected with fire, the dose of cold medicine can be smaller and the course of treatment can be shorter (according to the individual). These are also the theories of “heat is not offensive to heat, cold is not offensive to cold” in the Nei Jing. This is the basic skill that a TCM doctor should have. Of course, in view of the hot climate in summer, there are also precautions to take Chinese medicine in summer: 1. As summer is full of dampness and heat, the spleen and stomach are weak, so the formula should be supplemented with spleen-healthy and appetizing medicines, such as yam, hen’s nest, jiao hawthorn, sand, pelargonium, etc. 2. 2, blood tonic is easy to congestion of the spleen and stomach, the dosage should not be too large. 3, summer heat, Yang tonic should start with a small amount, gradually increase, so as not to overdo it, overkill. 4, summer heat, easy to consume qi and hurt yin, common weakness and sweating symptoms, should pay attention to benefit qi and nourish yin, clear summer heat, can be added with prunus ginseng, Wu Wei Zi, Mai Dong, watermelon Cu Yi, lotus leaf, etc.. It is best not to eat barbecue or use hot and spicy products during Chinese medicine, because barbecue food is easy to get on fire and hurt Yin; and hot and spicy products are more likely to lead to internal heat and deplete the essence, so you should be careful with cinnamon, pepper, aniseed, cumin, dog meat, mutton and other hairy products. 6, at the same time, also avoid cold and indigestible food, cold drinks should also be less, these things can damage the stomach gas, affecting the spleen and stomach function. 7, be careful to eat a lot of fatty and sweet nourishing products summer easy to produce summer dampness, damp heat of the evil easily invade the body, if you take a lot of fatty and sweet products, it is easy to lead to internal and external damp heat of the evil mixed, the disease is difficult to heal. There are also questions about how easy it is for herbal medicines to spoil in summer. Some patients decoct their own herbal medicines at home, and make a daily decoction in a cool place or in the refrigerator, so how can they go bad? In addition, more patients are decocted in hospitals with high-pressure sealed decoction machines, which can be kept fresh for one month at room temperature and 40 to 60 days in the refrigerator according to the instructions. Nowadays, basically every home has a refrigerator, is the temperature of the refrigerator at home different in summer and winter? If you take the summer (refrigerator) temperature is high, it really does not make sense. Of course, if the medicine bag bulges or if the medicine becomes tasteless or bubbly, the medicine is likely to have deteriorated and it is best not to take it. Under the guidance of proper diagnosis and treatment in Chinese medicine, the hot summer is also a good opportunity to treat diseases, especially cold diseases, and it is a good time to treat them according to the time, place and person. In summer, we should treat our illnesses in time, and we should not delay the continuous treatment of some chronic diseases. Not only should we treat our illnesses in time in summer, but even some diseases that tend to occur in winter or are easily aggravated in winter, such as lung swelling, asthma, cough, cold and stiff joints, fear of cold, chronic diarrhea, and weakness and susceptibility to sensation in winter, Chinese medicine also adopts the method of treating winter illnesses in summer, and enhances the body’s yang energy by taking Chinese medicine internally and applying to acupuncture points, so as to support yang and reinforce the essence, revitalize yang energy, get rid of the cold energy deposited in the body, and adjust the body’s cold energy. The treatment measures such as Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture point application can enhance the yang energy of the body, support the yang energy, revitalize the yang energy, remove the cold energy deposited in the body, adjust the body to achieve yin and yang secrecy, improve the immune function and disease resistance of the body, thus reducing the attack of certain diseases, and receive twice the effect with half the effort.