In recent years, the “cream fever” has swept the north and south of the country. Those who take cream prescriptions should be guided by the idea of treating the untreated disease, i.e. preventing the disease before it occurs, preventing changes after the disease has occurred, and preventing recurrence after the disease has occurred. This concept of health and prevention should be carried forward and serve to enhance people’s health and longevity. It is not suitable for everyone and must be used reasonably to prevent abuse. There are five things you should not do and three things you should not do. There are suitable people and unsuitable people who must be taken with caution and forbidden. Suitable people have the following five categories: First, the elderly, the physiological functions tend to decline, lack of energy, physical strength, need to supplement the deficiency to support the right, enhance physical fitness, to prevent disease. The second is the sub-healthy people, manifested as social and environmental adaptability, poor mental and physical strength, due to fatigue, depression, depression and anxiety, insomnia and forgetfulness. Third, chronic disease patients, the condition has become stable, due to the weakness of the disease, the need to consolidate the effect of treatment, enhance physical fitness. Fourth, people who are recovering after a major illness, such as a tumor, and need to be conditioned and helped to restore their physical and mental health. Fifth, for people with special constitution, such as children, infantile yin and yang, with deficiencies in the lungs, spleen and kidneys themselves, with surplus in the heart and liver, and with special diseases (such as cerebral palsy, chronic kidney disease, chancre, etc.), it can be applied as appropriate. In order to improve health and reduce diseases, the above-mentioned people can take poultices during the winter tonic season, using the method of tonic and treatment at the same time. Who can’t take the formula? First, patients with acute diseases. Acute diseases are changing, and the medication should follow the changes of the disease. The cream prescription is relatively fixed and does not have the function of treating all diseases with no change. You can’t just take a cream prescription, or you’re bound to eat the bad consequences. The second is the patient of the unstable period of chronic disease. Although the chronic disease, the condition is not yet in a relatively stable period, more changes, need to adjust the prescription in a timely manner, also should not use the cream. Third, the diagnosis is unknown. The diagnosis of the disease is not clear, the direction of treatment is difficult to determine, the Chinese medicine treatment may change, also should not use the cream. And from the season, only winter can be used for cream prescriptions. “There are principles for prescribing cream prescriptions, and doctors must prescribe according to the specific condition of the recipient, according to the individual and the disease, such as gender, age, body shape, and physical strength. In particular, the underlying diseases, etc., should be identified as yin and yang, cold and heat, deficiency and reality. The deficiency evidence is used, but not the actual evidence; the cold evidence is used, but not the hot evidence. In addition, we must further identify whether it is Yin deficiency or Yang deficiency. In terms of food, Yin deficiency eat turtle meat, duck meat, field chicken meat, clam meat, Yang deficiency eat mutton, dog meat, venison. It is necessary to adhere to the principle of “those who are deficient should be tonified and those who are real should be diarrhea”. The cream formula is only suitable for deficiency cold disease evidence, not for the actual heat symptoms. For example, if the liver and gallbladder damp heat of the two dampness, the mouth bitter urine yellow, constipation, yellow tongue coating greasy, is not suitable to use cream prescription. Ointment is a medicine, which is exclusively for the prevention and treatment of diseases. Each person’s physique is different, and the underlying disease is different, so it should be treated according to the evidence, and the prescription should be different from person to person, and the medicine should match the evidence and the disease. The doctor who prescribes the cream prescription should have relatively high clinical experience and medical level. He should have foresight on the condition and grasp the law of disease development. A cream prescription should be taken for 1 to 2 months in the south and 2 to 3 months in the north. During the period of 1 to 3 months, the prescription is fixed and the disease should be expected to be relatively stable, so that the unexpected situation that the disease changes and the medicine remains unchanged cannot occur. When the disease changes, the poultice is not applicable, and when it is stopped, it brings economic loss to the patient and causes waste of Chinese medicine resources. The time to take it should not be earlier than the beginning of winter The cream prescription is only applicable to winter, and is not suitable for spring, summer and autumn. Some people suggest that “it is better to supplement winter than to supplement frost” is not correct. The frost is half a month before the beginning of winter, and it is still autumn, not yet winter, according to the festival. The law of nature is spring, summer growth, autumn harvest, winter storage. Autumn is the season of harvesting, not the season of hiding. In the past, it was said that “if you don’t hide the essence in winter, you will be sick and warm in spring. Winter does not nourish the essence, strengthen the body, the next spring body weakness, immune function is reduced, easy to get warm disease (infectious disease). In northern areas, winter comes early, so the time to take the cream can be appropriately early. Generally, you can start from the beginning of winter, the cream can be opened for 1 and a half months, to be almost finished and then opened for 1 and a half months. It is better to open it twice to meet the needs of the disease. The disease changes the formula also changes, in order to adapt to clinical needs. Also conducive to the storage of ointment storage, to prevent mold deterioration. Winter comes late in the south, generally from the winter solstice. The poultice can be opened once, but also in 2 times, with the change of the disease, the poultice can make appropriate adjustments, the drug evidence consistent, the drug can be right disease, so that the effect is better, so as to avoid the change of the disease, the poultice is not applicable to cause waste. The requirements for Chinese herbal drinks are very high, and without good Chinese herbal drinks, you will definitely not be able to boil a good cream recipe. There are scientific requirements for the boiling process of the cream prescriptions, which are different, and the boiling process is not exactly the same, but may be different in the same, so specific adjustments should be made for specific creams, otherwise it is difficult to ensure the quality standard. Packaging and storage should also be careful, the bottle with cream to the caliber of large, straight wall shallow, capacity of 400-600 grams a bottle, for 10-15 days to take as good. Capacity is too large, too many times, the cream is easy to contaminate, providing the possibility of mildew. To prevent mildew, it is best to keep in the refrigerator freezer. Consumers taking poultices should not ask physicians to prescribe cordyceps, American ginseng and other precious herbs, regardless of whether the disease evidence needs, the blind pursuit of expensive drugs, scarce drugs is not right. What is good medicine, the right evidence for the disease is good medicine. And there are individual doctors who seek economic benefits, prescribe expensive drugs, prescribe generous commission, which is a manifestation of the lack of medical ethics. A prescription can only be for a specific person, not “a prescription for one person, the whole family to share”. There are differences in the gender and age of each member of a family, the strength and weakness of the body, the emotions (the seven emotions and six desires) and the underlying diseases, so if they share the same prescription, it is obviously inappropriate and cannot really play the role of tonic or disease prevention and treatment. A healthy person with balanced yin and yang and harmonized qi and blood does not need to take poultices. If a healthy person takes the formula arbitrarily, it may produce imbalance of yin and yang and disharmony of qi and blood, which may attract diseases.