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 health concept, prevention point of view should be carried forward to promote the people’s health and longevity services. However, at present, some individual operators, driven by economic interests, over-exaggerate the effect of cream prescriptions and mislead the public to take them. It is not suitable for everyone and must be used reasonably to prevent abuse. It is a medicine, not a general nutrition or tonic, and not everyone can take it. There are suitable people and unsuitable people who must be taken with caution and forbidden. Suitable people are the following four categories: First, the elderly, the various physiological functions tend to decline, lack of energy, physical strength, need to supplement the deficiency to support the right, enhance physical fitness, 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, after a major illness, such as a tumor, is in the recovery period, and needs to be conditioned and help restore physical and mental health. In order to improve health and reduce diseases, the above-mentioned people can take poultices in the winter tonic season, using the method of treatment while taking tonic. Who can’t take poultices? 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 get bad results. 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 have changes, also should not use the cream. And in terms of season, only the winter season is available for cream prescriptions. ”The doctor must prescribe the prescription according to the specific condition of the person taking it, depending on the person and the disease, such as gender, age, body shape, physical strength and weakness. In particular, the underlying disease, etc. should be identified as yin and yang, cold and heat, deficiency and reality. Deficiency evidence is used, but not actual evidence; cold evidence is used, but not 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 “the deficient should be tonic, the 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 prevention and treatment of diseases. Each person’s physique is different and the underlying disease is different, so it is necessary to identify the evidence and treat it, 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, and there should not be any unexpected situation that the disease changes and the medicine remains the same. 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 the winter than to supplement the frost” is not correct. This year’s frost is October 24, the weather is not yet cold, you can not take warm tonic medicine. The frost is half a month before the beginning of winter, from the festival to see the frost is still autumn, not into winter. The law of nature is that spring is born, summer is long, autumn is harvested, and winter is hidden. 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, which is November 8 this year, about 3 months before the coming Spring Festival. The formula can be prescribed for 1.5 months first, and then for 1.5 months when it is almost finished. It is better to open it twice to meet the needs of the disease. Change of disease also change the formula to adapt to clinical needs. Also conducive to the storage of ointment storage, to prevent mold deterioration. Winter in the south comes late, generally from the winter solstice, this year the winter solstice is December 22, to the Spring Festival before about 2 months. The poultice can be opened at 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 the right disease, so that the effect is better, so as to avoid the disease has changed, 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 prescriptions, and the boiling process is not exactly the same, there may be differences in the same, so specific adjustments should be made to the specific prescriptions, 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 generously to get a 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 a formula. If you take the formula arbitrarily, it may produce imbalance of yin and yang, and disharmony of qi and blood, which may attract diseases.