Do you have to eat cream in winter?

This ointment can be taken all year round. But the key is to choose the cream that suits you according to the different solar terms and your physical condition.

Because the cream is greasy, it is not easy to digest and absorb when taken in hot weather. A personalized cream usually takes about a month, and it is easy to deteriorate when the temperature is high. Therefore, it is appropriate to take cream in winter.

Experts say that cream is not only a "specialty" in winter, but also can be eaten all year round. But according to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, winter is the season of storage. During this period, the essence of human body is stored but not discharged, and nutrients are fully absorbed, utilized and stored, thus giving full play to its functions of improving physique and preventing and treating diseases. From the point of view of modern medicine, it is because the temperature in winter is low, the absorption function of gastrointestinal tract is strong, and the metabolic rate of human body slows down in winter, and nutrition can be transformed into its own substances more. At this time, tonic can better play a nourishing role, and secondly, the cream is not easy to mildew and deteriorate in winter, which affects the curative effect.

Plaster, also known as "decoction ointment" and "nourishing ointment", belongs to one of the eight major dosage forms of traditional Chinese medicine: pill, powder, ointment, pill, wine, dew, soup and ingot.

Generally, it is composed of more than 20 kinds of traditional Chinese medicines. After repeated decocting, slag removal, juice extraction, and adding auxiliary materials such as donkey-hide gelatin and honey, it is made into a viscous semi-liquid or semi-solid nourishing product.