Traditional Chinese medicine for invigorating blood should avoid menstruation

"Spring born and summer long, autumn harvest and winter storage, the age of heaven and earth; spring warm and summer hot, autumn cool and winter cold, the outline of the four seasons." This is a well-known saying of health preservation Winter is the best time for annual tonic According to traditional Chinese medicine, winter belongs to the "closed storage" season Through tonic, the kidney "essence" can be more abundant, so that the body will be better and less sick in the next year This is the idea of treating diseases in traditional Chinese Medicine Modern medicine also believes that after entering winter, the metabolism of the body will decline, and the physical consumption will be reduced At this time, tonic can make the medicine more easily absorbed and stored And play a greater role In the course of tonifying, invigorating Qi, blood, Yin, Yang, mind, stomach and food are all hot branches According to Huang Qihui, an associate professor of traditional Chinese medicine at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat sen University, the elderly, those who frequently use the brain, those who have been sitting for a long time, and those who are tired of physical deficiency are all suitable objects for winter tonic therapy However, they must be differentiated according to their own constitution, and they cannot blindly follow the general trend, and acute gastritis may occur if the tonic therapy is too fast or too fierce The white-collar women who need to avoid menstruation are more likely to have blood deficiency syndrome in winter Its main manifestations are pale or yellow face, pale lips, palpitations, insomnia, numbness of hands and feet, less menstruation or amenorrhea "What this kind of women should do now is to use traditional Chinese medicine to replenish blood." He said The commonly used traditional Chinese medicines popular to women are angelica, cooked land, Polygonum multiflorum, polygonatum, Ejiao, white peony, Ligusticum chuanxiong, wolfberry fruit, Caulis Spatholobi, ginseng, dangshen, astragalus, etc.; the main foods selected are mutton, pork, beef, chicken, duck, etc It is suitable for the symptoms caused by deficiency of blood, such as complexion, fatigue, dizziness, palpitation, insomnia, numbness of hands and feet, menstrual disorder, etc "This kind of medicated diet is mostly greasy, so those with excess heat, phlegm dampness, middle obstruction and exogenous fever are not allowed to eat It is best to eat regularly by stages, and replenish blood should avoid menstruation when it comes, so as not to increase menstrual volume " He said.