The key word that must be inseparable is "health".
With people's demand for fast-food reading, the health science popularization that draws simple and rude conclusions on the Internet will soon catch people's eyes and vote in favor of their psychology of "believing in it but not believing in it", which makes these unfounded words widely spread and become a large-scale misinformation.
Once health rumors spread, their harm is far greater than ordinary rumors.
End the top ten health rumors in 2020:
TOP 1: Ural licorice is an ancient country in medicine, can it be used as a substitute for tea?
Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch is a commonly used Chinese medicine. Because it can reconcile the medicinal properties of drugs, it is called "medicine" in many prescriptions and "old country" in medicine. Licorice is slightly sweet, so many people like to use it to soak water instead of tea, thinking that it can clear away heat and detoxify, but it is not advisable to use licorice instead of tea for a long time.
In fact, taking licorice for a long time can cause edema. Glycyrrhizin contained in Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch has adrenocortical hormone-like effect, which can promote water and sodium retention and increase potassium excretion. Long-term use of licorice in large quantities will lead to edema, increased blood pressure, decreased blood potassium, weakness of limbs and other pseudo-aldosteronism, as well as urticaria, asthma, nausea and vomiting and other adverse reactions.
TOP2: Can't you eat Artemisia argyi during menstruation?
Some readers saw on the Internet that "Folium Artemisiae Argyi has hemostatic effect" and worried that taking Folium Artemisiae Argyi during menstruation would affect menstruation.
The function of Artemisia argyi is to warm the lower energizer, which is effective for uterine cold bleeding. If you eat mugwort leaves during menstruation under normal circumstances, it will not affect menstruation.
Folium Artemisiae Argyi has the functions of promoting blood circulation, stopping bleeding, warming channels, dispelling cold and removing dampness, regulating qi and relieving pain, and has obvious curative effect on irregular menstruation, abdominal pain and metrorrhagia in women. Western medicine directly acts on diseases or bacteria and viruses, while Chinese medicine plays a role in conditioning human physique and strengthening the body by mobilizing its own ability to treat diseases.
Judging from the simple hemostatic effect, the coagulation function of platelets is far above that of mugwort. Therefore, there is absolutely no need to worry that eating mugwort leaves will affect menstruation.
TOP3: Splenectomy can lead to spleen deficiency?
Splenectomy is more common in spleen rupture caused by trauma. In order to save the lives of the injured, splenectomy is usually performed. However, patients undergoing splenectomy may not necessarily have spleen deficiency, because the so-called spleen in Chinese medicine and the spleen removed in western medicine have their own meanings and come from two completely different theoretical systems.
Spleen in western medicine refers to the excised solid organ, while spleen in traditional Chinese medicine refers to a series of functions. If a person has indigestion, sallow and emaciated face, loose stools and often feels tired, whether or not he has undergone splenectomy, he may be diagnosed as spleen deficiency. If the gastrointestinal function of patients who have undergone splenectomy is normal, it is not spleen deficiency.
Therefore, the deficiency of spleen-qi in TCM is not a localized diagnosis, but a description and explanation of the degree of physical weakness.
TOP4: Sweating can detoxify, and the more you sweat, the better?
Many people think that sweating can detoxify the body. The more you sweat, the more toxins you excrete. Therefore, I will try to make myself sweat a lot.
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) uses sweating to relieve exterior syndrome, detoxify and increase the energy exchange between the body and the outside world, but this sweating detoxification is only a slight sweating. If you sweat excessively to detoxify, it will hurt your health. In this regard, the classic of Chinese medicine points out that "you can't walk like water", because Chinese medicine regards sweat as "the liquid of the heart", and a lot of sweating will dissipate the heart qi, leading to excessive electrolyte loss in body fluids.
In patients with heatstroke shock, many people sweat too much, which leads to arrhythmia and cardiac arrest, which is also one of the evidences of the so-called "sweat is the fluid of the heart" in traditional Chinese medicine.
TOP5: Don't be jealous if you take cold medicine?
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that acidic substances have astringent effects. Some people worry that jealousy will affect the curative effect when taking traditional Chinese medicine for sweating and relieving exterior cold. In fact, this not only misunderstood the concept of acid harvest in traditional Chinese medicine, but also overestimated the efficacy of vinegar.
The convergence function of traditional Chinese medicine refers to astringing sweat, stopping diarrhea, reducing urine and quenching thirst. If a person perspires too much, the doctor will prescribe Schisandra chinensis, raspberry and so on to stop sweating. However, food that tastes sour may not be what Chinese medicine calls astringent. Although the taste of vinegar is sour, it has little astringency and will not affect the medicinal properties of drugs.
Some people worry that the acidity of vinegar will affect the medicinal properties of Chinese cold medicine, but this is even more unnecessary. The acidity of gastric acid is much higher than that of vinegar. Oral Chinese medicine for treating colds is effective only after the action of gastric acid, so it is basically not affected by acetic acid.
TOP6: Does Chuanbei steamed pear cure all kinds of cough?
Steamed pear with Chuanbei is a classic remedy for cough. Many people do rely on this diet to relieve cough, but steamed pears from Chuanbei are not suitable for all coughs. Steamed pear with Fritillaria cirrhosa is a kind of cool food, which has the effect of moistening dryness and relieving cough, and is specially aimed at the problem of lung excess fire. Dry cough caused by dry weather, dry cough without phlegm or cough due to yin deficiency caused by long illness is suitable for taking steamed pears from Chuanbei to relieve cough.
If the patient coughs due to excessive phlegm, it is necessary to eliminate phlegm and relieve cough. Fructus Trichosanthis, Zi Yuan and other traditional Chinese medicines with expectorant and antitussive effects should be selected.
Do you just need to avoid taking Chinese medicine?
Eating Chinese medicine pays attention to taboos, and patients are usually advised not to eat spicy, cold and greasy food. Many people think that they can eat freely after stopping using Chinese medicine. In fact, it is better to say that daily life also needs taboos than to eat Chinese medicine.
The reason why we need to avoid eating is because the patient's constitution will change after illness. Taking traditional Chinese medicine is to regulate the body and restore health, and it is necessary to avoid eating foods that make the body deviate. If the patient belongs to the constitution of excess heat, the mouth and tongue are sore and the stool is dry, at this time, spicy food should be avoided, even after the symptoms are relieved, attention should be paid to avoiding food. Because of the patient's physique, even if there are no symptoms, the food that has adverse effects on the physique should be eaten less or not.
Should nephritis patients eat more black beans to tonify the kidney?
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "black enters the kidney" and advocates eating black food to tonify the kidney, such as black beans, black fungus, black wolfberry and mulberry. Therefore, some patients with kidney disease hope to tonify the kidney by eating black beans.
In fact, the so-called kidney in Chinese medicine does not refer to kidney organs, but to a series of functions of the body. Kidney in traditional Chinese medicine refers to the foundation of the body, so there is a saying of "chronically ill kidney". Black enters the kidney, which is actually to replenish energy for the foundation of the body with the help of black food.
But if you are a patient with nephritis or renal failure, it is not suitable for eating black beans. Black beans are rich in protein, so patients with kidney disease should limit the intake of protein, otherwise it will increase the burden on the kidneys. In addition, people suffering from kidney disease do not necessarily belong to kidney deficiency as mentioned in traditional Chinese medicine, but may also be caused by phlegm-dampness, and the latter should not tonify the kidney but diuresis.
TOP9: Do Chinese medicine have to be taken according to the course of treatment?
Antibiotics should be taken according to the course of treatment, because bacteria, fungi and other microorganisms have a certain life cycle, so taking antibiotics according to their life cycle can completely kill pathogenic bacteria. However, there is no strict time limit for taking Chinese medicine, because Chinese medicine focuses on adjusting human physique, so it cannot be generalized.
If it is a traditional Chinese medicine, stop taking the medicine as soon as possible after the symptoms are relieved, and generally take the medicine for no more than 3 days; Taking tonic Chinese medicine can prolong the time appropriately, but it is not necessary to eat enough dose, and the dose should be adjusted at any time according to the patient's physique. Because Chinese medicine focuses on cultivating one's own physique, when the physical function is restored, one can continue to take it for a period of time to consolidate the curative effect and "get on the horse and send a ride".
TOP 10: eating more hawthorn can eliminate fire and digestion?
Many people think that hawthorn is sour, which can promote saliva secretion and eliminate fire and digestion. In fact, hawthorn is warm, and excessive consumption will make it dry.
In order to avoid getting angry, hawthorn and lily can be eaten together. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that lily tastes sweet and flat, and sweet lily with sour hawthorn will have the effect of "sour and sweet".
As for the hope of eating hawthorn to achieve digestion, we can't generalize. In traditional Chinese medicine, food accumulation points are food accumulation caused by excessive meat intake and food accumulation caused by excessive cereal staple food intake. If eating too much meat leads to food accumulation, taking hawthorn can really achieve the effect of digestion. But if eating too much food leads to food accumulation, you should take fried malt to eliminate food accumulation.
Expert: Health Science Writer/Taylor
Proofreading: Yu Xiaofeng