The dog days officially began on July 15th this year. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the Three Fu Days are a good time for health preservation and treatment of winter diseases in summer. What is' Winter Disease and Summer Treatment '? What are the applicable populations? Xu Jing, Director of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine at Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, introduced that "winter diseases" mainly refer to diseases that are prone to occur or worsen when the human body is invaded by cold air, usually showing obvious seasonality, worsening in autumn and winter, and easing in summer. For example, chronic respiratory diseases such as allergic rhinitis and pharyngitis, as well as cold diseases such as chronic bronchitis, asthma, and emphysema, can be induced by improper summer health maintenance. Summer treatment "refers to the traditional Chinese medicine characteristic therapy that utilizes the characteristics of rising yang energy and opening and releasing skin pores in summer to carry out preventive adjustments, tonify qi and warm yang, dispel cold and unblock meridians, improve the body's disease resistance, and alleviate symptoms of diseases that are prone to occur in winter Xu Jing said that the common "summer treatment" methods include acupoint sticking, traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture and moxibustion, massage, Tonic Diet, moxibustion, etc. Sanfu Tie "belongs to a type of acupoint plaster and is currently one of the most widely used" summer treatment "methods. It involves boiling Chinese herbal medicine into a paste, ointment, or shaping the medicine into a medicinal cake, and applying it to specific parts of the human body to stimulate acupoints, stimulate meridians, and allow the medicinal ingredients to penetrate and absorb to exert therapeutic effects. Xu Jing pointed out that it is not recommended for patients to apply the "Sanfu Tie" at home by themselves, because the ingredients and effects of the "Sanfu Tie" prescription are different, and the "Sanfu Tie" purchased from non-medical institutions may have uneven quality and certain safety hazards. She also emphasized that during the Three Fu Days, one should not blindly follow the trend and go to extremes in health preservation. "Three Fu Patch," "Three Fu Moxibustion," and "Sky Moxibustion on the Back" are all aimed at patients with cold symptoms such as asthma, chronic bronchitis, and allergic rhinitis. These "winter diseases" must be diagnosed by traditional Chinese medicine practitioners through syndrome differentiation and treatment, and the "cold" characteristics that truly belong to the "yang deficiency constitution" of traditional Chinese medicine can be treated using the method of "treating winter diseases in summer". (New Society)