The four seasons of the year, spring, summer, autumn and winter, are the laws of nature. Chinese medicine believes that human beings and nature are closely related to each other, so there is the saying of “the unity of heaven and man”. In other words, people should live, live, eat and drink in accordance with nature, including the use of medicine. How can we do this? Winter is the season of storage and reserve, and it is also the best time for the human body to absorb nutrients, store essence and restore health, so the folk proverb says: “If you take a winter tonic in the third nine days, you will have no disease and pain in the coming year”, “If you take a winter tonic, you can beat the tiger next year”, etc. etc., that is, the winter solstice to start for the body “refueling”, “charging”, nourishing the essence of the spirit, so that your essence, Qi, God sufficient vigor, the body contributed to the next year’s growth capacity is greatly improved, that is, “the right spirit within the evil can not dry “.
So how to take tonic? The custom of taking poultices in winter has been passed down among the people. Winter is the best time to take poultices, a poultice, take a winter, healthy people, especially the elderly – to harmonize yin and Yang, nourish the qi and blood, maintain the internal organs, delay aging; subhealthy people – poultice conditioning, to reverse the return to health; chronic disease people – the condition of stability, to avoid relapse.
What is a prescription? What kind of people is it suitable for? What is sub-health? What are the clinical manifestations of sub-health? What are the advantages of cream prescription?
1.What is a prescription?
Traditional Chinese medicine is one of the five major forms of traditional Chinese medicine: pills, pans, creams, pans and soups.
Classification of internal cream prescriptions: adult medicine creams: such as: motherwort cream, Chuanbei loquat cream, Xiaqiucao cream, etc. Features: mass production, fixed composition, exact efficacy and universality. Customized cream prescriptions: identification prescriptions, different from person to person, different from disease, one person to another, special cream, in line with the individualization of Chinese medicine treatment, more targeted.
2.What kind of people can take the cream prescription?
(1) Healthy people: health care, enhance immune function, delay aging.
Healthy people are divided into nine types of constitution: calm, Yang deficiency, Yin deficiency, Qi deficiency, Qi depression, phlegm-damp, damp-heat, blood stasis, special endowment. Different body types have susceptibility to diseases. For example, Yin deficiency constitution is susceptible to diabetes, hypertension, high blood viscosity, constipation, etc.; Yang deficiency constitution is susceptible to low blood pressure, colds, cardiovascular and rheumatic diseases; Qi yu constitution is susceptible to depression, breast enlargement, uterine fibroids, gastrointestinal disorders; Phlegm damp constitution is susceptible to obesity, fatty liver, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, etc.
According to the different types of physique, healthy people can gradually transform their biased physique into a calm physique through poultices, so that they can have abundant qi and blood, calm yin and yang, strong function of internal organs and vigorous energy. For the elderly, it can nourish the kidney and fill the essence, strengthen the spleen and benefit the lung, and delay aging.
(2) For chronic patients: to make the disease more stable and avoid relapse.
Because of its gentle and long-lasting medicinal properties, the formula is suitable for the old and weak, the deficient in long-standing diseases, the regulation of chronic diseases, and the post-operative rehabilitation of people. According to the different diseases, TCM doctors can apply the cream formula, which can not only cure the disease, but also replenish the deficiency, and has a good effect of treatment and control of recurrence, for example: chronic kidney disease is stable after treatment, you can use the cream formula to regulate, support the righteousness and eliminate the evil, improve the immune function, prevent colds, and avoid recurrence of proteinuria and hematuria.
(3) Sub-healthy people.
What is subhealth? In addition to the state of health and disease, there is also an intermediate state of non-health and non-disease, which is called “the critical state between health and disease”. In 1999, the World Health Organization (WHO) and China have introduced the new medical concept of “sub-health”, and in 1999, WHO declared that sub-health is the greatest enemy of human health in the 21st century.
What are the clinical manifestations of sub-health? Physical sub-health, psychological sub-health and social sub-health.
Physical sub-health: fatigue, insomnia and dreaminess; kidney deficiency (back pain, frequent urination, low sexual function); gastrointestinal disorders: loose stools or constipation, bloating and abdominal distension; dizziness and tinnitus, headache and dizziness, chest tightness and shortness of breath, sometimes panic, sweating, easy to catch a cold, and a dull complexion.
Psychological subhealth: depressed, depressed, sentimental, sad and weepy; or anxious, impatient and irritable, or memory loss, obsessive-compulsive disorder; or inattentiveness, etc.
It is the best time for TCM to intervene in sub-healthy people, based on the four diagnoses of TCM, to identify and treat the symptoms, and to carry out TCM interventions, one of which is the cream prescription.
3.What are the advantages of poultices?
(1) Comprehensiveness and wholeness
Paste prescriptions are not exactly the same as general prescriptions, but focus on comprehensive and holistic treatment. Doctors take into account the comprehensive, appropriate supplementation and diarrhea, qi and blood regulation, yin and yang peace, fully reflecting the characteristics of Chinese medicine “holistic concept” of medicine.
(2) Support the righteousness and dispel the evil, take into account the medicine and tonic
It can not only “cure diseases” but also “supplement deficiency”, so it ≠ “tonic medicine”. According to the physical type of a healthy person, the cream doctor can treat the symptoms of subhealth differently, and the diseases of chronic patients differently, reflecting the differences between people and diseases, one cream for one person, and medicine and tonic for all. Moreover, the cream is a kind of Chinese medicine dosage form with strong target, its medicinal properties are mild, but the medicinal power is more lasting, which is the reason why the cream is always flourishing.
(3) Single material processing, easy to absorb
The traditional processing technology is used to extract and treat different herbs in a scientific and reasonable way, so that the medicinal effect can be fully expressed.
(4) No need to decoct, easy to store and carry
Paste prescriptions are bagged, easy to store, easy to carry and take, and once a day, reducing the trouble of decocting the soup every day. At the same time, the taste of poultice is good, and it is suitable for both young and old, without the worry of bitter taste and difficulty in taking the soup.
In addition, “winter tonic” is only one aspect of poultice, and poultice tonic “should not be confined to winter”. For example, for chronic diseases, major illnesses, post-operative period, postpartum deficiency of women, etc., even if it is not in winter, the formula can be used to regulate the treatment.