Wu medical plaster prescriptions have a long history and were most popular during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Its advantage is that one person can take one prescription, which overcomes the shortcomings of proprietary Chinese medicine and health care products, and realizes personalized medicine, and also avoids the disadvantage of troublesome decoction. Paste prescriptions are prescribed by doctors according to the patient’s condition and constitution, and are carefully boiled with authentic herbs and refined with honey or Agaricus blazei, making it a convenient paste preparation. Its effect is mainly nourishing and therapeutic, with nourishing effect. It is a good tonic to harmonize yin and yang, to benefit qi and blood, to invigorate blood circulation and remove blood stasis, to regulate liver and qi, to calm and tranquilize the mind, and to strengthen the spleen and kidneys, in order to nourish the weakness, resist decay and prolong life, to correct subhealth, and to prevent and cure diseases. 1.What is Wu medicine? Suzhou is a famous historical and cultural city in China, historically known as “Wu Zhong”, “Wu Xia” and “Three Wu”. The rich historical heritage of Wu culture has added vitality to the development of Wuzhong medicine and provided a rich cultural deposit for the formation of Wuzhong medicine. From the Zhou Dynasty to the present, more than a thousand famous doctors have been recorded, and their academic achievements are unique, forming the distinctive Wu School of Medicine (Wu Medicine). The formation of the school of therapeutic medicine established the academic status of the Suzhou-centered school of therapeutic medicine, which is also the origin of “Wu Zhong Medicine A World”. Wu medicine has made an indelible contribution to the prosperity of Suzhou people for thousands of years. 2.What is a prescription? Paste prescription is an important part of Chinese medicine, and is one of the eight traditional forms of Chinese medicine: pill, powder, paste, elixir, wine, dew, soup and ingot, which has a combination of nutritional nourishment and preventive treatment. It has a long history of development in China. The earliest surviving medical prescription book in China, the Western Han dynasty palace book “Fifty-two Disease Formula” found in Mawangdui archaeological site in Changsha, has already recorded the prescription of cream. Paste prescriptions are more comprehensive prescriptions prepared by clinically experienced physicians according to the principles of TCM theory, method, prescription and medicine, and based on compound tonics, according to the different physical conditions and clinical manifestations of people. It is a more comprehensive prescription based on the principles of medical theory, method, prescription and medicine of compound soup. During the processing, the herbs are combined together according to the prescription through the processes of soaking, decoction, concentration, paste collection and storage, and then refined and processed into a thick paste. 3.Why do you choose to take poultices in winter? In Chinese medicine, tonic is suitable for all seasons. However, winter is the best time to take cream. Generally speaking, about 50 days after the winter solstice, that is, the first nine days to the sixth nine days (9 days after the winter solstice is the first nine days, and then the second nine days, the third nine days, the fourth nine days, the fifth nine days, the sixth nine days) is the best time. If you are ready to take two creams in one winter, you can advance it appropriately. The main reason for choosing winter to take the cream recipe is that it is easy to preserve, but it is mainly to comply with the natural characteristics of “spring birth, summer growth, autumn harvest and winter storage”. Winter is the season of hiding, the weather is cold, the appetite is strong, and the couples are dense. At this time, the internal use of cream can nourish and strengthen the body, anti-aging and prolonging, cure disease correction, the overall adjustment, by the next spring, the spirit of the vigorous, walking, thinking sharp. There is a folk saying: “Winter tonic, spring tiger”, although it is an exaggeration, but it also shows that winter tonic is the best time. The Su Wen? The Four Qi Tuning Shen Da Lun says: “In March of winter, this is called closed storage.” Therefore, winter is a good time to take tonic in time with creams. 4.Who is suitable to take tonic with cream prescription? As long as they are physically weak and suffering from chronic diseases, they can be taken by old, young, male and female. (1) Sub-healthy people: people who do not have chronic diseases but are prone to catching cold, people who are weak due to long-term strain or stress, middle-aged and elderly people, people who are physically weak and do not have enough energy to perform stressful and tiring work; (2) People with chronic diseases: people who have chronic diseases or are weak due to long illness, or people who want to consolidate the effect of treatment in order to enhance their physical fitness. These chronic diseases such as chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, hypertension, coronary heart disease, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, chronic gastritis, chronic urinary tract infection, anemia, wind-like shutdown, nocturnal polyuria, lumbago, men’s sexual dysfunction, seminal disease, women’s menstrual irregularities, infertility, etc. (3) Rehabilitation patients: such as after surgery, radiotherapy, after bleeding, after serious illness, after giving birth to extremely weak people. 5.Can people with hypertension take creams? Some people think that people with hypertension have symptoms of hyperactivity such as headache, dizziness, irritability and irritability, so taking creams is “pouring oil on the fire”, which is actually a misunderstanding of the effect of creams. The symptoms of hyperactivity in hypertensive patients are due to the deficiency of essence, blood and fluid in the organism and the deficiency of yin and yin does not control yang and the deficiency of the organism’s function is hyperactive. 6.Is there a difference between “meat” and “vegetarian” poultices? Paste prescriptions are generally composed of five parts: Chinese herbal medicine, fine ingredients (a generic term for valuable drugs such as ginseng and mushrooms), gum, sugar and auxiliary ingredients. The production and processing of poultices are divided into decoction, concentration, collection of poultices, and packaging. According to the difference of sugar and gum used in collecting the paste, there is a difference between “non-vegetarian paste” and “vegetarian paste”. The “meat paste” refers to the paste that uses gums of animal origin such as Colla Corii Asini, Turtle Plate Gum, Turtle Nail Gum and Deer Antler Gum in the preparation of the paste. These gums not only help to form the paste during preparation and processing, but also have good drug efficacy. The “vegetarian ointment” does not use gum of animal origin, but uses sugar or honey to collect the ointment, so it is also called “sugar ointment” or “honey ointment”. 7.Can diabetic patients take the cream? In Chinese medicine, diabetes belongs to the category of “thirst”. According to Chinese medicine, its causes are related to deficiency of endowment, weakness of the five organs, mental stimulation, emotional disorders, over-eating fat and sweet, and obesity. Due to insufficient insulin secretion caused by the body sugar, protein and lipid metabolism abnormalities, diabetic patients often appear to drink more, eat more, urinate more, fatigue, wasting and other symptoms, and because of high blood sugar erosion of human organs and the five organs loss of weakness, vision loss, gangrene and other serious complications. In addition to active treatment and blood glucose control, it is also important to prevent complications through daily conditioning and dietary therapy, so nourishing but not greasy, tonic but not stagnant, and with a combination of “conditioning” and “tonic” cream is increasingly popular among diabetics. It is more and more popular among diabetics. When concentrating the cream for diabetic patients, cane sugar may not be added, or sweeteners such as Yuanzhen sugar, stevia, xylitol and aspartame may be used instead of cane sugar to improve the taste and not to raise the blood sugar level.