Experts remind us that health products are different from drugs and can only play a role in auxiliary treatment, not replace conventional prevention and treatment of diseases.
【Healthy individuals should be cautious about adjusting their lifestyle】
Li Chengke said that human beings are unified with nature, and the various functions of organs and qi and blood are all in response to changes in the environment, time, and climate in the natural world. The classics of traditional Chinese medicine point out that the key to maintaining health in the four seasons is "nurturing yang in spring and summer, and nourishing yin in autumn and winter." In winter, the temperature drops, the days are shorter and the nights are longer, and nature presents a desolate and cold scene. Various animals find places to hide, some even do not eat or drink and enter hibernation, avoiding the harsh living environment in nature, waiting for spring to come.
At this time, humans should pay attention to keeping warm and preventing colds. Taking advantage of the good quality of sleep and good digestion and absorption function in autumn and winter seasons, storing seasonally rich and nutritious food, increasing sleep time and eating nutritious food appropriately can reduce consumption and replenish nutrients. In short, for a healthy body, strengthening health only teaches people how to adjust their lives, tap into their own potential to increase their physical fitness, and cultivate righteous qi without relying on drugs.
【Taking medicine when healthy can easily harm the body】
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that winter is the best time of the year for nourishing and accumulating. Especially during the period before and after the winter solstice, the nutrients that the human body is easy to absorb and supplement can achieve the effect of "achieving twice the result with half the effort" and improve the immune function of the body and promote metabolism. Therefore, there is a saying that "eat well in winter, fight tigers in the next spring."
However, medicinal supplements are still medicines, and medicines are used to treat diseases. Traditional Chinese medicine treats diseases by using the properties of medicinal herbs such as cold, hot, tonifying, reducing, raising, lowering, consolidating, and dispersing to correct the imbalance of diseases and restore the balance of yin and yang in the body to cure diseases. Therefore, if the body is healthy, taking dietary supplements or various so-called "strengthening drugs", "longevity drugs", "beauty drugs" and so on, for the purpose of health maintenance, the biased nature of these drugs will inevitably disrupt the functions of the internal organs and damage the righteous qi. Therefore, it is advised not to blindly believe in rumors and take medicine when healthy to avoid harming the body. In recent years, there have been reports of blindness caused by the use of various ginseng products, such as a case in Henan Province where a healthy young person suffered symptoms of poisoning such as dizziness, restlessness, confused speech, and mental confusion ten minutes after decocting 30 grams of red ginseng.
Of course, some traditional Chinese medicines are commonly used as food, with mild properties, such as Chinese yam, lotus seeds, mung beans, red beans, bean sprouts, tea leaves, coix seeds, longan meat, walnut meat, etc. They are made into various "health foods" based on their properties and still belong to the category of food, not drugs. People can eat them according to the instructions, which should be beneficial and harmless.
