Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) refers to physical weakness as physical weakness, and the weakness of chronic diseases as deficiency syndrome, and divides weakness into four types: qi deficiency, blood deficiency, yin deficiency and yang deficiency. Combining the five internal organs of heart, liver, spleen, lung and kidney, each organ has the types of qi, blood, yin and yang weakness, such as lung qi deficiency, spleen yang deficiency and spleen yang deficiency, etc. TCM theory is balanced, as long as human qi and blood are balanced. Physical weakness is that some functions of the body are reduced, and it is not necessarily sick, which is called "sub-health" by western medicine. If it is not replenished, adjusted and conditioned in time, it will be harmful to health.

Treatment of weakness, according to Chinese medicine, "deficiency is complementary, but in fact diarrhea, heat is cold, cold is hot." "principle, need to adjust the excess and deficiency through tonic, tonic has four aspects: invigorating qi, nourishing blood, nourishing yin and nourishing yang, and it is necessary to differentiate the body according to each person's physique and disease syndrome, and tonic has medicinal tonic and food tonic, whether using medicinal tonic or food tonic, all for the purpose of tonifying deficiency and strengthening the body resistance and food tonic.

Sometimes it is more important than medicine tonic, because food tonic can not only tonify deficiency and eliminate pathogenic factors, but also strengthen the body's health, so that the body's qi, blood, yin and yang can reach a new balance and restore health. Therefore, there is a saying that "medicine tonic is not as good as food tonic", and tonic is to tonify deficiency and strengthen the body's health. If it is not empty, it can cause adverse reactions, such as strong people taking warm qi and blood tonic drugs such as ginseng and donkey-hide gelatin. There will be loss of appetite, nausea, fullness, constipation, dizziness, sore throat, and bleeding gums. For example, people with yang deficiency who are afraid of cold and have thin stools will be more afraid of cold, diarrhea, abdominal pain, etc. after taking yin-nourishing drugs such as Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Ophiopogonis, and Carapax Trionycis. These are all due to improper tonic, which damages stomach qi and violates the principle of TCM syndrome differentiation and tonic.

The following is a brief introduction to some tonic foods and medicated diets for physical weakness:

1 qi deficiency: the main manifestations of qi deficiency are; Lack of breath, laziness in speaking, fatigue and fatigue, low voice, shortness of breath when moving, easy sweating, dizziness, palpitation, sallow complexion, loss of appetite, asthenic heat, spontaneous sweating, proctoptosis, uterine prolapse, pale and fat tongue, teeth marks on the edge of the tongue, weak pulse, etc., are hypofunction, not necessarily sick, and people with qi deficiency need to replenish qi. Ginseng, Radix Astragali, Radix Codonopsis and other drugs for invigorating qi can be selected.

1.1food for invigorating qi deficiency: beef, chicken, pork, glutinous rice, soybean, white lentils, jujube, crucian carp, carp, quail, eel, shrimp, mushroom, etc. You can often choose clothes alternately.

1.2 Examples of medicinal diet for invigorating qi deficiency:

Yu zhen Chicken: Wash a hen, put 30g longan, dried litchi, black dates, lotus seeds and medlar into the belly of the chicken, and add seasoning to steam food, which can replenish qi and nourish essence.

Steamed quail with Astragalus membranaceus: 6 ~ 9g of Astragalus membranaceus and 2 quails are steamed to supplement qi deficiency.

2 blood deficiency: the main manifestations of blood deficiency are; Pale complexion, pale lips and claws, dizziness, fatigue, dizziness, palpitation, insomnia, dreaminess, dry stool, pale tongue, slippery fur, thin and weak pulse, etc. Tonifying should adopt the methods of enriching blood, nourishing blood and generating blood, and the drugs for enriching blood can be selected from Angelica sinensis, Colla Corii Asini, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata and Mulberry.

2.1Buxue deficiency food: black-bone chicken, black sesame, walnut meat, longan, chicken, pig blood, pig liver, brown sugar, red beans, etc., which can be used alternately.

2.2 Examples of medicated diet for tonifying blood deficiency:

Danggui silky fowl: Danggui and Huangqi each 15g are put into a gauze bag and cooked with a silky fowl. Eating chicken and drinking soup can replenish blood and deficiency.

Colla Corii Asini glutinous rice porridge: Colla Corii Asini 9g (broken) and black glutinous rice 60g*** boiled porridge for oral administration, which can replenish blood and deficiency.

3 yin deficiency: also known as yin deficiency and excessive fire, commonly known as virtual fire, the main manifestations of yin deficiency are; Fear of heat, irritability, burning in the cheeks, dry mouth and sore throat, dry stool, short red or yellow urine, lack of body fluid in the tongue, vexation of five hearts (two palms, two soles and the top of the head), night sweats, backache, wet dream's spermatorrhea, red tongue with thin or stripped fur, rapid pulse, etc. Tonifying yin, nourishing yin, nourishing yin, etc. should be adopted, and the drugs for tonifying yin deficiency can be Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Ophiopogonis, Rhizoma Polygonati Odorati, Pearl powder, Tremella, Cordyceps, Dendrobium, Tortoise Shell, etc.

3.1food for nourishing yin deficiency: soft-shelled turtle, bird's nest, lily, duck, snakehead, jellyfish, lotus root, Flammulina velutipes, gouqi head, water chestnut, raw pear, etc., which can be taken alternately.

3.2 Examples of therapeutic prescriptions for nourishing yin deficiency with medicated diet:

Tremella and red date soup (or lily and lotus seed soup): appropriate amount of tremella and red date (or lily and lotus seed) can be taken as snacks to supplement yin deficiency.

Turtle Erzi Decoction: Turtle 1 only with Ligustrum lucidum and Lycium barbarum 20g, add seasoning, and eat turtle soup for several doses, which can tonify yin deficiency and treat low back pain, nocturnal emission, dizziness and blurred vision caused by liver and kidney yin deficiency.

Dendrobium river fish; 6g Dendrobium, river fish 1 strip * * * steamed food, can nourish yin.

Cordyceps old male duck: Cordyceps 9g is cooked with three-year-old male duck 1 only * * *, and eating duck meat and drinking soup can replenish yin deficiency.

4 yang deficiency: also known as yang deficiency and fire failure, it is the further development of qi deficiency, and the main manifestations of yang deficiency are; In addition to the manifestations of qi deficiency, I am usually afraid of cold, my limbs are not warm, I like hot drinks, my body temperature is often low, my waist is sore and my legs are weak, I have impotence and premature ejaculation, my lower abdomen is cold and painful, I am tired, I have trouble urinating, my tongue is pale, my fur is white, and my pulse is heavy and thin. Tonifying Yang, Yiyang and Wenyang: Ginseng Radix Rubri, Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum, Eucommiae Cortex, Cordyceps, Cinnamomum cassia, Hippocampus, etc. can be used as the drugs for tonifying Yang deficiency.

4.1Foods for tonifying yang deficiency: beef, dog meat, mutton, bullwhip, sea cucumber, mussel, walnut meat, longan, quail, eel, shrimp, leek, cinnamon, fennel, etc., which can be taken alternately.

4.2 Examples of therapeutic prescriptions for tonifying yang deficiency:

Hippocampus Broiler: Hippocampus 9g, Broiler 1 bird, steamed with * * *, which can tonify yang deficiency.

Leek and white rice shrimp: 200g leek, white rice shrimp (or shrimp) 100g, stir-fried, seasoned, often taken, can tonify yang deficiency.

5 Two Deficiencies: People with physical deficiency often have two deficiency bodies, and there are the following types of two deficiency bodies:

5.1deficiency of both qi and yin: both qi deficiency and yin deficiency, mainly manifested as; There are symptoms of qi deficiency such as dizziness, fatigue and leg weakness, and symptoms of yin deficiency such as rising fire, dry throat and red tongue, but there is no chronic disease. This constitution is called deficiency of both qi and yin, and the tonic method of supplementing qi and nourishing yin should be adopted, that is, qi and yin should be considered at the same time.

5.2 deficiency of yin and yang: both yin deficiency and yang deficiency are called deficiency of yin and yang, which are mainly manifested as follows; Fear of both cold and heat, especially cold in winter and heat in summer, is the constitution of yin-yang imbalance or deficiency of both yin and yang, and tonic methods such as nourishing yin and warming yang, nourishing yin and strengthening yang should be adopted.

5.3 Deficiency of both qi and blood: Deficiency of both qi and blood generally appears in anemia, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, after massive hemorrhage, menorrhagia of women, etc., which mainly shows as follows; There are both manifestations of qi deficiency and blood deficiency, and supplementing qi and generating blood, nourishing qi and blood, and supplementing qi and blood should be adopted.

The food and medicated diet with the functions of invigorating qi, enriching blood, nourishing yin and nourishing yang can be used to supplement the body according to the differentiation of symptoms and signs, and should be taken alternately according to the severity of weakness. After the weakness disappears, you should stop taking tonic food and medicated diet until you take a normal balanced diet, so that you can really "supplement the deficiency, but actually diarrhea", and you don't need to supplement it without deficiency, so as to avoid supplementing it in vain.