How to choose cream for winter tonic and the reasons for choosing cream for winter tonic.
In winter, food supplement and medicine supplement are the main methods, and medicine supplement is superior to food supplement, so medicine supplement is the first choice. Plaster, also known as ointment and ointment, is a kind of drug dosage form with thick appearance and sweet mouth. It has a long history and is recorded in Huangdi Neijing.
According to reports, the cream has different formulas according to people's different constitutions and clinical manifestations. It is a viscous semi-liquid or frozen dosage form made by adding some auxiliary materials (such as honey and donkey-hide gelatin) after boiling, which is more suitable for taking than soup. Moreover, it is not as fast as frying soup, but slowly nourishes the body, which is in line with the principle of "haste makes waste" in physical weakness recovery.
Moreover, compared with pills, the raw materials of the cream can be changed at will, which is more in line with the needs of personal physique and illness, and can effectively regulate human immune function and enhance the ability of human body to resist oxygen free radicals. Therefore, in winter, according to the difference of deficiency of both qi and blood, yin and yang, choosing the appropriate ointment for tonic can give full play to the role of ointment in improving physical fitness and preventing and treating diseases.
Types of nourishing ointment in winter
The ointment bought from the market belongs to prescription ointment, and the ointment prescribed by the hospital belongs to prescription ointment.
Prescription ointment is a kind of ointment prescription with definite curative effect, which is produced and processed in batches by pharmaceutical factories and sold as a tonic in pharmacies. The ingredients of these creams are relatively simple, and they can be made into ointments and medicines for you to choose from, such as motherwort cream, Guyuan Ointment and Longan Ointment.
Pre-prescription ointment autotrophic medicine refers to the prescription prescribed according to the patient's physical condition. One ointment for each person is customized by the hospital pharmacy, and each ointment is only suitable for the patient himself. Fang Lin ointment is also called custom ointment.
The ointment on the market is not suitable for everyone and needs to be judged according to physical fitness. Each ointment is only suitable for one kind of human body, such as Warming Meridian and Nourishing Blood Ointment, which is prepared for women with deficiency of qi and blood, dysmenorrhea and tepid limbs. Damp heat constitution should be used with caution; Another example is Jianpi Yangwei ointment, which is suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach, and people in damp heat constitution can't use it either. Even with the same physique, everyone's physical condition is different. Just because someone else ate it, it didn't mean they ate it.
There is a saying in Chinese medicine that "ten diseases are not as good as one ointment". It can be seen that opening a good cream requires very high doctors, and the energy consumed by experts is several times that of ordinary Chinese medicine clinics.
Winter tonic ointment is suitable for people.
The ointment is suitable for all kinds of chronic diseases, postoperative recovery period, sub-health people and people with weak constitution who need conditioning.
1. Sub-healthy people: they are not troubled by diseases, but they are in a state of high pressure for a long time, weak and lack of energy. Taking ointment can enhance physical fitness, improve disease resistance, enhance physical function and prevent diseases.
2. Patients with chronic diseases: those suffering from chronic diseases for a long time, such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, digestive diseases, blood diseases, allergic diseases, rheumatic diseases, etc. You can take ointment to adjust your physique, control and reduce the recurrence of the disease and relieve the condition.
3, the elderly population: the elderly have poor blood circulation and weak dirty gas. Taking the cream prescription for conditioning can tonify qi and blood, enhance physical fitness, delay aging and reduce the occurrence of diseases.
4. Sick patients, patients who are recovering after a serious illness or a long illness: Most of these people are physically weak, and ointment can help the weak and promote the recovery of the disease.
It is suggested that everyone who wants to eat the cream should take the pulse according to the syndrome differentiation before prescribing medicine, because some people are not suitable for eating the cream. For example, teenagers are healthy; Acute diseases and infected people; Chronic disease attack period and active period; Author of stomachache, diarrhea, cholecystitis and gallstones; Chronic hepatitis and high transaminase; High immunoglobulin and antibody. It is definitely not recommended to continue taking cream after pregnancy.
The best time to eat ointment.
Ointment can be eaten all year round, especially nourishing ointment, which is best eaten in winter. The ancients said: "Everything is born in spring, longer than summer, closed in autumn and hidden in winter, so people should respond." From the point of view of modern medicine, winter has lower temperature, more heat dissipation, stronger gastrointestinal function than other seasons, and vigorous physiological function is conducive to the absorption and utilization of nutrients, which can be more transformed into their own substances. Secondly, due to the low temperature in winter, the paste is easier to preserve.
It is best to take it continuously for 50 days from winter to Sunday, that is, from winter to September 19 to June 9 in the future, or to beginning of spring before taking it. At this time, tonic can maximize your strength and keep fit.
Store the paste in a closed porcelain jar and drink a spoonful of boiling water every morning. You can also take it with yellow wine according to the needs of your illness. Generally speaking, we should start with a small dose and gradually increase the dose. For example, one tablespoon a day for adults, 10- 15g. If the digestive function is normal, they should take it twice a day after 1 week, that is, take it on an empty stomach after getting up in the morning and take it 1 hour before going to bed at night.
Contraindications of tonic ointment in winter
During taking the cream, if you have a cold and fever, cough with excessive phlegm, acute abdominal pain (such as eating disorder, diarrhea, summer injury), depression and headache, gastrointestinal dysfunction (such as vomiting, loose stool, dyspepsia), coma, excess heat (such as hot sores, swelling and pain) and obstruction (such as constipation and dysuria), you must stop taking the medicine temporarily.
When taking the cream, you should avoid smoking and drinking. Do not drink coffee, cola and other beverages containing coffee, cold and greasy products, and eat less greasy and seafood products. Ginseng, radish and red and green tea are not allowed in the ointment. Take ointment containing Polygonum Multiflori Radix, and avoid pig, sheep blood and iron; Cream cannot be taken with milk; People with yin deficiency constipation and hot flashes should avoid spicy food; Loose stool with yang deficiency and those who are afraid of cold should avoid eating cold food, and follow the doctor's advice.
Method of supplementing ointment in winter
Take it on an empty stomach: its advantage is that it can make the medicine enter the intestine quickly and maintain a high concentration to exert its efficacy. Nourishing drugs should be taken on an empty stomach. If you feel uncomfortable when taking it on an empty stomach, you can take it when you are half hungry and half full.
Take before meals: take the medicine 30 ~ 60 minutes before meals. If you have a disease in the lower energizer and want to release the medicine quickly, you should take it before meals.
After meals: take the medicine 15 ~ 30 minutes after meals. Those who want to stay on the scorch for a long time should take it after meals.
Before going to bed: 15 ~ 30 minutes before going to bed. Drugs that tonify the heart and spleen, soothe the nerves and help sleep should be taken before going to bed.
Note: Subject to the doctor's opinion and medication time.
Preservation method of nourishing ointment in winter
Ointment should be stored in porcelain or enamel jars, but aluminum jars should not be used as containers. Store in a cool place, such as a refrigerator, and avoid being close to the kitchen fire to prevent mildew. When taking ointment every day, don't change a spoon every time to take it out, so as not to bring water into the jar every day and promote mildew and deterioration. A fixed spoon should be put in the jar.
Can I make my own cream at home?
Nowadays, many citizens make their own ointment according to the online ointment making method or the folk ointment making method, but to make a good bottle of ointment, the prescription must be made first; Secondly, the medicinal materials are good; Third, the boiling process is better; Finally, the cream should be collected.
The standardized production process of paste prescription includes seven steps: soaking ingredients, decocting, concentrating, collecting paste, sterilizing, canning and collecting. The homemade ointment may not be ready. It is difficult for ordinary people to do all seven processes well, but they waste medicinal materials. It is not recommended that citizens make their own ointment.