So what are the advantages of cream prescriptions? I think there are three main points as follows: 1, diagnosis and treatment, one person, one cream Prescribing a cream prescription is first of all to see a doctor, is an experienced Chinese medicine practitioner, through the examination, smell, smell, cut and other means, diagnosis and treatment of the treatment process. First of all, according to the patient’s condition and constitution, evaluate whether it is suitable to take the cream, and then prescribe the prescription, add the appropriate tonic, the collection of ointment products, boiled into cream. The purpose of the prescription is twofold: first, to see if the medicine is right; second, to regulate the spleen and stomach for better absorption, so that a large number of tonic medicines do not nourish and hinder the stomach. In this way, the real “one person, one cream”, compared to the commercially available drugs, into the cream is more targeted. 2.Treatment of disease and nourishment, both medicine and food The first thing is to treat disease, in addition to the characteristics of evidence-based treatment, targeted, but also for the patient’s many aspects of discomfort for conditioning. As stated in “Su Wen – The Book of the Signs and Diseases”, “the one between is parallel, the other is alone”. For deficiency diseases, it is often “not a day’s cold to freeze three feet”, and it is not a day’s work to cure, and it often requires long-term conditioning, so there is time for extensive and detailed conditioning, so there are often many flavors of medicine in the formula, as few as 30 or 40 flavors, as many as hundreds of flavors, and there are also coarse and fine ingredients, so that while highlighting the main disease and main evidence, it also takes care of almost all of the patient’s problems. In this way, it can take care of almost all the problems of patients while highlighting the main symptoms of the disease. The cream formula is a tonic, and it is made of tonic drugs, which makes it even more tonic. And we often talk about some expensive tonic products, such as Cordyceps, ginseng, etc., under the premise of identification, can also be added to the cream, with other drugs, not only to improve the efficacy and utilization rate of drugs, but also to control their side effects, really achieve the purpose of value for money, the best use. In March, when it is closed in winter, taking cream is very effective for deficiency diseases. 3, easy to take, good taste The cream formula is mainly for chronic deficiency diseases, these patients often need to take medicine for a long time, the so-called “good medicine bitter mouth”, every morning and evening to pour two bowls of bitter medicine soup, is a matter of suffering. Most of the poultices can be eaten for one to two months, only one tablespoon is needed every morning and evening, without the effort of decoction or even heating, which is very convenient; and the main function of poultices is to nourish, the medicine is more sweet, but also add certain sugar and tonic, such as syrup, rock sugar, walnuts, black sesame, etc., so that the cure, tonic at the same time, the taste is very good, even disobedient children also like, when writing this article At the time of writing this article, a 4-year-old child with spinal muscular atrophy is being treated with poultices in the TCM specialty ward of Beijing TCM Hospital, where the author works. In addition to this, the cream formula facilitates the rational use of drugs. Firstly, it allows the rational use of some expensive drugs. Secondly, it allows the rational use of some drugs that are not clinically convenient to use. There are also some drugs that are not expensive or even cheap, but are not convenient for clinical and hospital use, so their application is also limited, such as syrup and yellow wine. The “Clinical Guide to Medical Cases, Volume II – Cough” says, “To manage Yang Qi, we should push Jianzhong, and to take care of Yin liquid, we must cast the rejuvenating pulse.” This shows that Ye Tianshi highly esteems Xiao Jianzhong Tang and Broiled Licorice Soup, which are also commonly used in clinical practice nowadays, such as Huangqi Jianzhong Tang for peptic ulcer and Broiled Licorice Soup for cardiac arrhythmia, etc. However, we do not use syrup in Xiao Jianzhong Tang and Broiled Licorice Soup. We do not use yellow wine, syrup is the ruling medicine, yellow wine helps to move the effect of the medicine, I am afraid that the effect of the medicine will be greatly reduced without them. In fact, both are not expensive, but the former is not available, and the latter is not good to use. If made into a poultice, these problems will be solved. There are many similar medicines, such as rock sugar, honey, black sesame, walnuts and so on. In addition, like the gum, deer horn gum, turtle shell gum, turtle plate gum and other gum drugs, need to melt, often require additional steaming, very laborious; like pearl powder, antelope horn powder, Panax notoginseng powder, amber powder and other powder, need to be brewed, but also inconvenient, and the taste is not good, many patients reflect “paste throat”. If made into a paste formula, all these drugs can be tolerated in one pot, and it becomes extremely convenient to take. Paste can not only cure, but also prevent diseases, especially for the middle-aged and elderly and some “white-collar” people with high work pressure and other sub-healthy people, can play a good regulating role, is an important part of the Chinese medicine “treatment before the disease” system. In the past, due to the restrictions of preservation conditions, the cream can only be made and taken in winter, now with the refrigerator, the cream can be made and taken all year round, which makes the original winter tonic, has been extended to the four seasons of health.