In one's life, almost everyone has had a cold. Can you take tonics when you have a cold? Many Chinese patent medicines, such as Shiquan Dabu pills, are marked on the instructions or bottle labels of tonic agents such as Shiquan Dabu pills, which indicates that people with cold should not take tonics again, so as to avoid affecting the evacuation and expelling of cold pathogens due to wrong supplement. This is the truth of "mistakenly supplementing and retaining evil" and "keeping the door closed" in TCM.
Generally speaking, mild cold, tonic can continue to take, but if there are fever and other symptoms, it is best to suspend tonic, so as not to affect the evacuation of cold pathogens.
People with poor physique are easy to catch a cold. Appropriate tonic is conducive to the evacuation of external pathogens. For example, Qi deficiency people can add dangshen, Astragalus and other Qi tonic drugs; Yang deficiency people can add Fuzi, Guizhi and other warming Yang medicine; blood deficiency plus rehmannia, angelica and other blood tonic drugs; Yin deficiency plus Yuzhu, Ophiopogon and other Yin nourishing drugs. After a cold is cured, you can often take Qi tonifying drugs such as Astragalus membranaceus, Codonopsis pilosula, Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria cocos and other invigorating drugs, which have a certain effect on the prevention of cold. Influenza patients are generally not suitable for tonic
The above-mentioned cold refers to those who have obvious symptoms such as fever and cannot take tonic. Some people with poor physique are more likely to catch a cold than ordinary people. This is a manifestation of the weakness of Lung Health called by traditional Chinese medicine, which is called "excessive evil of the body" and "cold caused by deficiency". On the etiology and pathogenesis, there are Qi deficiency, Yang deficiency, blood deficiency and yin deficiency. On the basis of expelling external pathogens, these cold patients should supplement Qi, Yang, blood and Yin respectively to help healthy qi and remove pathogenic factors. For patients with cold and Qi deficiency, Qi tonifying drugs such as dangshen (or ginseng) and Astragalus membranaceus should be added; for those with Yang deficiency, Yang warming drugs such as aconite and cassia twig should be added; for those with blood deficiency, blood tonic drugs such as Rehmannia glutinosa and Angelica sinensis should be added; for those with Yin deficiency, Yin nourishing drugs such as Yuzhu and Ophiopogon japonicus should be added.
Easy to catch a cold person, usually can take medicine such as Astragalus membranaceus, Codonopsis pilosula and so on. Modern studies have shown that Codonopsis pilosula, ginseng, Astragalus membranaceus, Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria glabra and other Invigorating Qi drugs can improve the immune function of the human body, and have a certain effect on the prevention of cold. In clinical practice, if you meet people who are not solid in exterior deficiency, evil wind and spontaneous sweating, and are susceptible to wind evil due to body deficiency, you can use 'Yupingfeng Powder (composed of Astragalus membranaceus, Atractylodes macrocephala and Radix Saposhnikoviae). In this prescription, Astragalus membranaceus, the monarch medicine, enters the spleen and lungs with a sweet temperature, replenishes Qi and stabilizes the exterior; the official medicine Atractylodes macrocephala can strengthen the spleen and Qi, strengthen the surface and stop sweating, help the Astragalus membranaceus to transport the middle Jiao, support the source of transformation, so that the Qi is vigorous and the exterior is solid, and the evil is not easy to invade. It is a good method to combine tonifying and dispersing. Therefore, Qi deficiency is easy to be taken by people with exogenous factors, which can strengthen the surface and resist evil, while those with deficiency and spontaneous sweating can consolidate and stop sweating.
However, for patients with influenza, due to the acute onset, severe illness, and high fever, it is not appropriate to take tonic, and wait for the cold to improve, and then appropriate dialectical supplement.