Unlock the Secrets of Winter Wellness: How Chinese Medicine Practitioners Harness the Power of Balance to Heal and Harmonize
2024/11/6 14:41
(Updated at 11/6 14:51)
Winter Supplements: Choose Wisely to Replenish Energy and Health
(Central News Agency Reporter Hao Jueqing, Taichung, 6th) Tomorrow is the start of winter, and Zheng Weiren, a Chinese doctor at the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s Taichung Hospital, will start taking supplements. Before taking supplements, you must understand the properties of the ingredients and the ingredients of the medicine so as not to harm the body.
At the beginning of winter tomorrow, Taichung Hospital will remind the public to be careful about taking supplements in winter. If you take the right supplements, you can replenish your energy and maintain your health. Wrong supplements, be careful about harming your body.
Zheng Weiren said, recently a person was found clinically, after eating medicated mutton stew in a group purchase at home for three days, the patient had acne on the neck and scalp, and his skin itching became more severe, so he went to the hospital for treatment.
Zheng Weren pointed out that there are many kinds of medicated dietary supplements for winter, including “warming tonic”, “flat tonic”, “cooling tonic” and so on. Generally healthy and normal people will not have any problem in taking these three types of diet. Supplements, but some people who have a hot or cold constitution, if you suffer from any disease, you should take supplements selectively.
Zheng Weren gave examples of simple winter lamb stew, sesame oil chicken, ginger duck, herb braised pork ribs, siuwu chicken, shochu chicken, etc. Most of their medicinal properties are “warm, aromatic and sweet”. They often feel warm throughout the body and have health care functions such as revitalizing vitality and promoting circulation; Suffers from internal heat symptoms like irritability, insomnia, chapped lips, acne etc. adverse reactions.
Zheng Weren also reminded that people with hot and dry constitution, autoimmune diseases such as Sjogren’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus erythematosus, etc., or metabolic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, gout, etc., as well as those with eczema. , xerosclerosis, etc. Patients suffering from skin diseases such as ringworm, acne and fungus should refrain from taking warm tonic medicinal foods, as colds, fever, acute gastroenteritis and cancer patients are also not suitable for warm tonics.
But if you still want to experience herbal food in winter, Zheng Weren suggests that you can choose “flat tonic” or “cool tonic” herbal food, such as Xishen soup, yam pork ribs, bitter gourd pork ribs, Lao Cai preserved chicken soup. , mushroom chicken soup, etc., which have mild medicinal properties, are less likely to cause side effects of warmth and dryness, and are a suitable choice for the public.