The old man use 3 principles

China's traditional Chinese medicine to

        Pay attention to the side effects of drugs

        Follow the doctor's advice when taking medicine, but also pay attention to the continued drug use may be caused by unsafe factors. Especially in the medicine before you read drug instructions in the "adverse reaction" content, once appear serious adverse reactions, should go to a hospital in time by the doctor disposal. If also taking other drugs, when go to a doctor to the doctor should be detailed description. In a variety of medicine share, should also consider whether the result of the interaction of the drug.

        Master drug dose

        As the growth of the age, each organ function gradually recession, metabolic function also decreases, drug in the body metabolism slow down, so the old dosage should be minimum dose began, and gradually increased to regular doses.

        Careful with certain drugs

        The old man should be careful with ephedra, liquorice and rhubarb. Ephedra have excited central nervous and sympathetic nerve function, easy to cause the old man insomnia, elevated blood pressure, and angina pectoris, men's also easy cause urinary retention. Licorice easy cause pseudo aldosteronism, appear higher blood pressure, and edema, serum potassium lower, etc., and aggravate hypertension symptoms. Rhubarb is empirical purging the remedy to the case, the old man deficiency syndrome which is, therefore, should avoid to use. (YangMiao)