eight taboos for tonic at the beginning of autumn
avoid random tonic without disease
random tonic without disease, which 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.
avoid regardless of deficiency and excess
the treatment principle of traditional Chinese medicine is to supplement deficiency, not deficiency patients, and tonics should not be used. Deficiency can also be divided into yin deficiency, Yang deficiency, Qi deficiency and blood deficiency. Only taking medicine for symptoms can supplement the body, otherwise it will backfire and hurt the body. Health care although
is not as strict as treating diseases, at least the eating objects should be divided into two categories: cold and hot. Cold people are afraid of cold and like heat, their hands and feet are not warm, their mouth is light, their saliva is much, their stool is loose, their urine is clear and long, their tongue is light, and their pulse is thin. Those with partial heat have hot hands and feet, dry mouth, bitter mouth, bad breath, dry stool, short red urine, red tongue and pulse number. If you do not distinguish between cold and heat, it is easy to add fuel to the fire.
avoid more and better
any tonic is harmful if taken in excess. It is unscientific to think that “take more tonics, treat diseases and strengthen the body without diseases”. If taking ginseng antler tonic in excess, it can cause abdominal distension and don’t think about diet; Over taking vitamin C can cause nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
avoid 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 digestion process of meat
, 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.
avoid taking medicine instead of food
food is better than medicine. It is unscientific to pay more attention to drugs than 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.
avoid “entering” more than “leaving”.
with the improvement of people’s living standards, many families have meat and fish every day, and their meals are greasy. The acidic and toxic substances produced after food metabolism need to be discharged in time. The acceleration of the pace of life makes many people defecate irregularly and even defecate
secretly. 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.
avoid 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 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.
avoid the more expensive the more supplement
“thinness is 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 therapeutic 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 lacking, what is to be supplemented”, and do not divide the high and low according to the high and low, especially for the elderly group, we should take practicality and low price as the nourishing principle.