With the approach of cold winter, the number of cold patients visiting hospitals has been gradually increasing in the past month. Young and strong cold patients take some medicine and drink more water, usually after a week or so will be fine, but if it is a weak elderly or poor resistance, the common cold can be like a big enemy. For example, patients with chronic bronchitis are prone to acute attacks, breathing difficulties, and even life-threatening; patients with chronic rhinitis are direct victims of colds, with recurrence and exacerbation of rhinitis; heart disease patients also abound with examples of exacerbation due to colds; patients with chronic nephritis and chronic renal insufficiency, colds are a major cause of exacerbating their conditions. Therefore, to stay away from the cold, we must prevent it in our daily life. As the saying goes: spring cover autumn freeze, this method of cold prevention actually does not apply to all people, if you are fire strong, good resistance of young people can try to use this method as a “warm-up exercise” before winter. The elderly, the chronically ill and those with weakened resistance should instead take the opposite approach of keeping warm, exercising as much as they can, and taking appropriate “medicinal treatments” that have the added benefit of preventing colds, in order to keep colds at bay. Here is a small recipe that can help to benefit the qi and fix the table, which can greatly improve the body’s ability to resist the cold and the body’s resistance, and reduce the chance of cold attack. Remedy 30g Astragalus membranaceus, 45g Atractylodes macrocephala, 15g Radix et Rhizoma Polygonati, 30g Dosage: Break the above 4 medicines into capsules, 4 capsules at a time, 2-3 times a day; or take a small amount of the 4 medicines and drink it frequently as tea. Efficacy: raw astragalus: Li Shizhen in the “Compendium of Materia Medica” explained its name: “Jie, long also. Huang Qi yellow color, for the long tonic, so the name.” Its taste is sweet, slightly warm, to the spleen, lung meridian, for the qi tonic medicine. Astragalus can make up all the Qi, and also has the Yang, solid table to stop sweating, drainage of pus and muscle, water, swelling, fetus and beneficial effect of blood. Raw astragalus is particularly prominent in the power to fix the table. Atractylodes Macrocephala: bitter, sweet, warm. It belongs to the spleen and stomach meridians. It strengthens the spleen and benefits the qi, dampness and diuresis, stops sweating and calms the fetus. Can be used with raw Astragalus to build up the function of benefiting qi and fixing the surface. Fanfeng: “General for wind. Laxing the lung, dispersing the stagnant Qi in the head and eyes, and removing the wind evil in the upper jiao.” It is pungent and sweet in taste and slightly warm in nature. It belongs to the bladder, liver and spleen meridians. Effects: Dispelling wind and relieving symptoms, winning dampness and relieving pain, and stopping spasm. Zhi Mu: Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing: “Mainly used for eliminating thirst and heat, removing swelling in the limbs from evil Qi, lowering water, tonifying deficiencies and benefiting Qi.” The medicine is bitter, sweet and cold. It belongs to the lung, stomach and kidney meridians. It is effective in clearing heat and fire, promoting the production of body fluid and moistening dryness. It is not very cold and not very bitter. When it is used with Astragalus, it does not feel hot and cold at all. Therefore, if I treat the evidence of hot real pulse number, I must use Zhi Mu, and if I use Huang Qi to supplement the formula of Qi, I am afraid that it has heat that is not accepted, and I always supplement it with Zhi Mu.” Therefore, in view of the current climate and eating habits, damp-heat or Yang-heat physique, with Zhi Mu to restrain the heat of Astragalus, the whole formula plays the function of benefitting Qi and fixing the surface.