The snow festival often comes around December 7, when there is snow in the Yellow River basin in China, and the north presents a fascinating landscape of snow drifts. The “Moon Order Seventy-two Huangs Ji Jie” says: “to this and snow Sheng also.” The big snow means the weather is colder, the possibility of snowfall is greater than the small snow, does not mean the amount of snowfall must be very large. There is an agricultural proverb: “Snowy winter to snowflakes fly, good side work more fertilizer”, people look forward to seeing in the snow festival “snow omen” good omen, can be seen the arrival of the snow festival, foreshadowing the coming year’s good luck or not. From the point of view of Chinese medicine health, the snow has come to “tonic” good time. When it comes to tonic, many people only narrowly understand that the so-called “tonic” is to eat some food with high nutritional value, with some aphrodisiac tonic, in fact, this is only one aspect of the tonic, and tonic is a branch of health science content. When it comes to health care, we should first know what is nourishment? What is life? The so-called nourishment, that is, maintenance, conditioning, cultivation, supplementation, care and maintenance; the so-called life, life, survival, growth meaning. Specifically, we should achieve the purpose of strengthening the body and life through comprehensive conditioning such as nourishing the spirit, adjusting the diet, practicing the body, being careful about the room, and adapting to the temperature and cold. In the process of application, we should pay attention to two points: 1, raise appropriate moderate The so-called moderate, is to be just right. Not too much, not less than. If you are overly cautious, it will lead to a disorderly adjustment, do not know what to do. A little labor is afraid of depletion of gas and injury, a little cold and heat of the different will be closed, food but fear of fat, sweet and greasy and diet, such a state, are too much and restrained because of the restraint, not only damage to health, more can not “end of the day”. 2, do not raise too partial comprehensive conditioning to moderate. Some people take “tonic” as nourishment, so the diet emphasizes nutrition, food must be tonic; living emphasizes rest and relaxation, quiet nourishment only; in addition, also to supplement the drug as an aid. Although the food, medicine, and medication are in the health category, but too much will affect health. As some people too much food supplement will be over-nutrition, excessive rest and recuperation will only escape without labor, there will be a dysfunctional movement, if the medicine is too much will occur in the yin and Yang of the bias, so that the metabolism of the body to produce dysfunctional and contrary to expectations. Warm tip: snow is the third season of winter. At this time the weather starts to become colder, it is the wind and cold of the evil invasion of the season, for the elderly and weak resistance of people, the kidney in the essence of insufficient, the kidney Yang loss, the inability to warm and stimulate the promotion of dirty Qi and easy to cause disease. The so-called “kidney” in Chinese medicine not only refers to the kidney with urinary function in Western medicine, but also includes reproductive, nervous system, storage, nutrition, growth, hematopoiesis, endocrine and other functions. The kidney belongs to winter in the season and north in the direction. Although the kidney should be tonified in all seasons, because the kidney is water, water has a cold characteristic, and winter and the north is relatively cold, the kidney is the most unstable, and most likely to suffer from kidney-related diseases, so in the snow festival should be the most kidney tonification, kidney maintenance, and the most ideal results. The famous formula for nourishing the kidneys, “Angelica Ginger and Lamb Soup”, by Zhang Zhongjing, the sage of medicine, “The tenth book of the Jin Kui Essentials – abdominal fullness and cold hernia and persistent food disease pulse evidence treatment” states: “Cold hernia, pain in the abdomen and pain in the dorsal area, Angelica Ginger and Lamb Soup is the main one.” Zeng Shiyi said this formula is a very famous medicinal recipe, with simple medicinal flavors and easy preparation. Patients with kidney yang deficiency may have symptoms such as fear of cold extremities, soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, and such patients are suitable to take this formula in winter. Professor Zeng stressed that the amount of ginger should not be less, a leg of lamb can be added to about one pound of ginger to achieve the purpose of warming Yang and dispersing cold. In addition, if the kidney Yin deficiency, you can not take this formula. As the saying goes: “cold from the feet”, the feet are the farthest from the heart, the longest journey of blood flow, and the foot brings together the meridians of the whole body, so people often say “cold feet, it is cold whole body”, the whole body if cold, the body’s resistance will decline, the evil can take advantage of the weakness and enter. Professor Zeng recommends that we choose good warm shoes and socks, preferably breathable cotton socks, while more foot activity to promote blood circulation; at night before going to bed with hot water foot soak, can nourish the vital energy, blood circulation, waist strong tendons, delay aging, eliminate fatigue. Chinese medicine tonic, should know the connotation and principles of Chinese medicine “tonic method”. As the saying goes, “winter is hidden in the essence, spring is not sick and warm”, which reflects the essence of Chinese medicine tonic and regimen. The “tonic” should not only distinguish the nature of deficiency, but also look at the deficiency in which the internal organs, what is deficient, what to make up, no evidence of deficiency can not be indiscriminate tonic. It is not right to think that kidney supplementation is aphrodisiac. In fact, the kidney is like boiling water: the water will be full when it boils, but the water will become less when it cools; the water will be reduced to a certain level, and it will be difficult to fill up when it boils again. Simply using aphrodisiacs to supplement the kidneys is like “boiling water”, which seems to work, but the kidney water will become more and more deficient. The kidney deficiency has a yin deficiency and yang deficiency, only the kidney yang is related to impotence, premature ejaculation, etc., that is, we usually say “aphrodisiac”, can only work for people with kidney yang deficiency. If the kidney is only Yin deficiency, the original Yin deficiency is already “fire”, and then aphrodisiac is equal to “pouring oil on the fire”. The correct method of kidney supplementation should be to seek yang in yin and yin in yang, to benefit the kidney and consolidate the essence, to achieve the purpose of complementing yang or yin and yang. As if the water is boiling, but also add water as appropriate, so that the water to maintain a certain boiling, but full and not overflowing, to avoid the use of aphrodisiacs alone and cause adverse consequences.