What are the prescriptions for longevity?

Everyone hopes that they can live a few more years, because there are still too many things in the world that we have not seen. Now every household has better conditions, and every household has begun to enter a well-off society. In this way, every household eats better, but eating well does not mean that the body is nourished. Some foods are considered good, but in fact they have no effect. When it comes to prolonging life, many people will choose prescriptions to deal with it. So what are the prescriptions for prolonging life?

1. Astragalus

Astragalus is sweet and slightly warm in nature. It enters the spleen and lung meridians. This product can replenish qi and raise yang, benefit the body's defense system and strengthen the exterior, promote diuresis and reduce swelling, and nourish the five internal organs. Long-term use can strengthen bones and body, and treat various types of qi deficiency. In the Qing Dynasty, the palace used Astragalus to replenish Qi and benefit the blood.

Modern research shows that Astragalus can promote nonspecific and specific immune functions and enhance the body's resistance; it can prolong the average lifespan of silkworms and fruit flies, increase the number of in vitro culture generations of human fetal kidney and suckling rat kidney cells and human fetal lung diploid cells, and prolong the survival time of each generation of cells. These are all good illustrations of the anti-aging effects of Astragalus.

Dosage and Administration: The general dosage of Astragalus is 3-9g. In serious illness or when needed, 30-120g can be used.

Boil 480g of Astragalus membranaceus with water, add honey to make a paste, take 10g daily, washed down with boiled water. Used for those with weak constitution and prone to external infection.

Precautions for use: Do not use if you feel chest tightness or anger; Do not use if you have not recovered from a cold.

2. Ginseng

Ginseng is sweet, slightly bitter and slightly warm. It enters the heart, lung and spleen meridians. It can greatly replenish vital energy, strengthen qi and consolidate deficiency, and save people from critical condition. It can be used in critical moments after a serious or long-term illness, when the body is weak and about to collapse. It can also be used for people with low voice, weak breathing, spontaneous sweating, easy to catch cold, poor appetite, abdominal distension, loose stools, shortness of breath and laziness to speak, fatigue of limbs, muscle wasting, sallow complexion, pale tongue with thin white coating, and slow and weak pulse. These are the symptoms of spleen and lung qi deficiency as described in traditional Chinese medicine. Taking ginseng can replenish the spleen and lungs.

Ancient doctors regarded ginseng as a holy product for longevity. The "Ben Jing" said that it "replenishes the five elements and calms the mind", "improve eyesight, open the heart and improve intelligence, and long-term consumption of ginseng can make the body lighter and prolong life". Therefore, the ancients gave it the beautiful name of "longevity grass". In today's era, some of the anti-aging and longevity Chinese patent medicines that are popular in the market are also inseparable from ginseng.

A decoction made from ginseng alone is called Du Shen Tang, which has the effect of invigorating qi and strengthening the body. For the elderly and weak, long-term consumption of this soup can strengthen the body and resist aging.

Ginseng can be cut into slices and dissolved in the mouth every day to nourish the body, prevent diseases, enhance the body's resistance, and it also has a certain effect on improving intellectual decline, memory loss, and slow thinking in the elderly.

In the above content, we introduced various prescriptions for prolonging life. If you know the prescriptions for prolonging life, you can use them more reasonably in your daily life. When prolonging life, you must choose your daily meals reasonably, the nutritional level of the main foods, eat more health-preserving soups, and use various medicinal materials that are good for the body to make soup, so as to get the effect of fitness and health preservation.