as the saying goes: “there is no disease in a summer and three points are empty”. As soon as autumn comes, although the climate is cool in the morning and evening, there are still autumn tigers raging, so people are very prone to burnout, fatigue, stupidity, etc. There is a custom of “autumn tonic” among the people. Everything can be described as “spring, summer, autumn harvest and winter storage”. According to the principle of “nourishing yang in spring and summer and Yin in autumn and winter”, tonic is very necessary at this time. However, the supplement should not be arbitrarily supplemented. Ten taboos should be paid attention to:
disease-free supplement:
not only increases expenses, but also harms itself. If taking too much cod liver oil can cause poisoning, long-term taking of glucose will cause obesity, increase of cholesterol in blood and easy to induce cardiovascular disease.
admiring and tonifying:
believes that the higher the price of drugs, the more beneficial they are to the body. Ginseng has a high price and is also a holy medicine among tonics, so many people take it. However, it should be noted that overuse of ginseng will lead to symptoms such as excessive excitement, irritability, elevated blood pressure and nostril bleeding.
regardless of deficiency and excess:
the treatment principle of traditional Chinese medicine is to make up for deficiency, not deficiency patients. Deficiency can be divided into yin deficiency, Yang deficiency, Qi deficiency and blood deficiency. Only taking medicine for symptoms can replenish the body, otherwise it will be counterproductive.
more is better:
any tonic taken in excess will be harmful. Therefore, tonic should be taken in an appropriate amount.
substitute medicine for food:
it is unscientific to emphasize medicine over food. The effect of medicine is not as good as that of food.
all tonic meat:
animal food is undoubtedly a good tonic. It not only has high nutrition, but also tastes delicious. However, meat is not easy to digest and absorb. If you eat more for a long time, it is often overburdened for the elderly whose gastrointestinal function has decreased. Some “by-products” in the process of meat digestion, such as excessive lipids, sugars and other substances, are often the causes of common and frequently occurring diseases in the elderly such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and cancer. A light diet is not without supplements, especially vegetables. According to the view of modern nutrition, fresh fruits and vegetables contain a variety of vitamins and trace elements, which are essential nutrients for the human body.
substitute medicine for food:
medicine is better than food. It is unscientific to emphasize medicine over food. As everyone knows, many foods are also therapeutic drugs. If you eat more shepherd’s purse, you can treat hypertension; Eating more radish can strengthen the stomach and digestion, smooth Qi, broaden the chest, dissipate phlegm and relieve cough; Eating more yams can tonify the spleen and stomach. Daily consumption of walnuts, peanuts, red dates, lentils and lotus roots are also good tonic products.
heavy in and light out:
with the improvement of people’s living standards, many families have meat and fish every day, and the meals are greasy. The acidic and toxic substances produced after the metabolism of these foods need to be discharged in time, and the acceleration of the pace of life makes many people defecate irregularly and even constipated. Therefore, in recent years, health experts have put forward a new health care concept of paying attention to “negative nutrition”, that is, paying attention to the discharge of human waste, reducing the retention and absorption of “intestinal toxin”, and advocating that while taking tonic, we should also pay attention to the timely and unobstructed defecation.
constant tonic:
some people like to take a certain tonic according to their own taste, and then develop from constant for many years to “partial eclipse” and “food addiction”, which is unfavorable to health. Because drugs and food not only have health care and therapeutic effects, but also have certain side effects, long-term and multi-dose administration will affect the nutritional balance in the body. Especially for the elderly, not only the functions of various organs have decreased to varying degrees and need to be comprehensively and systematically conditioned, but also they have different needs for health drugs and food in different seasons. Therefore, it is very necessary to adjust according to different situations. We can’t make constant compensation and make it to the end.
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rare things are more expensive. Those noble traditional foods such as bird’s nest and shark’s fin actually have no unique therapeutic effect, while very ordinary foods such as sweet potato and onion have dietotherapy value worthy of attention. In addition, all dietotherapy has certain objects and indications, so we should determine the medicated diet according to the needs, what is missing and what is to be supplemented. Do not divide the high and low by the high and low. Especially for the elderly group, we should take practicality and low price as the nourishing principle.