A saying goes like this: “spring is the most important season of the year.” So is preserving life.

“But, there are great differences between Early spring, Mid-Spring and Late spring for preserving life,” says the associated professor Yang Wenlian, who has worked as a Chinese Medical Specialist for more than thirty years. For example, people need to be activated and drive away the cold from the winter in early spring; in mid-spring, the spleen has to be nourished; lessening the heat from the body must be prevented during late spring.

Professor Yang said, “It is still timely to start preserving one’s health from now on though this is the last solar term in late spring.” There are some sayings about Grain Rain: “Rain brings the growth of hundreds of grains, and snow stops during clear brightness (Qing Ming); frost ends when Grain Rain arrives.” The average temperature reaches 12 degrees Celsius and above, with lots of rainfall—or “grain fall!” It is the best time in a year, with luxuriant greens and blossoms everywhere. The state of mind is the best at this time, thus people should pay attention to nourishing life.

“One more thing that’s worth noting is that it is also time for all kinds of diseases, and these should be prevented.” Allergies and respiratory illnesses are the most difficult problems for most people. At the same time, there are heavy winds, which disturb the nervous system, causing uneasiness and pains of many sorts. From a Chinese medical perspective, the reason for these pains and aches are the heat accumulated in the liver.

So we must preserve the livers, promoting blood circulation while removing meridian obstruction. Besides, as a result of unstable temperature, the changeable weather, it is easy to induce diseases such as coronary heart disease, arthritis, gastroenteritis and HFMD (Hand-Foot-and-Mouth Disease). According to Professor Yang, preserving the health by focusing differently is the treasure passed down from the generations, and we must stick to it. Nourishing life properly can get twice the result with half the effort.

It is with lots of benefits that people use these health care products with a good diet from the point of preserving the health. Yet people become undecided with the increase of the health care products, and the intermingling of products with good quality and bad quality. “Who knows if it is real or not”? This kind of question finds many people’s voices. “Actually we are very miserable, since we are puzzled as to how to select the finest products with cheapest prices. During interviews, many people revealed to the journalists the reasons they were unable to buy the health and care products.

The markets for health products are in a mess. Thus Tongrentang, a famous Chinese pharmaceutical company, with its century-long history, should be responsible for the health of the public, says Hang Hong, Doctor of Medicine, the associate secretary general of China Health Care Association, the chief scientist and vice general manager of Beijing Tongrentang Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.

As a saying goes, “Treat before getting illness.” It is more enjoyable to prevent the thousands of people from being ill than relieving the pains of the sick ones. It contributes a lot to the health from the public by taking the fine health care products with cheap prices. In this regard, Tongrentang cannot fall behind its peers.

Tongrentang, joins the fields of categorizing Chinese medical products into health care products by selling more new-type health care products with the integration of traditional technology with the modern advanced science.

Thus, it requires conscientiousness and responsibility from the corporations to produce good products to cultivate a healthy market on the one hand; on the other, the people themselves at best master some basic knowhow to recognize if the healthcare products are true or not, Doctor Zhang proposed.

First, do not believe advertisements blindly. This is a time when good medicine needs advertisement, which has to depend on the responsible media to publicize. But if the coporations focus too much on the advertisement, then they pay little attention to other aspects, since it does cost to produce this product.

Second, do have faith in the big corporations. Recent years, many traditional Chinese medical companies are now transiting to the production of health care products to some extent. We should notice that more and more companies are now depending on the advanced production and research technology, which are standard in operation and creative in thinking. Therefore they are more believable and safer for supplying the health and care products. For example, each health and care product in Tongrentang has to pass a lot of demonstrations by the experts, like research on its toxicity, including tests on human bodies. Besides, the production procedures are checked on by the stuff from BQMMB （Beijing Quality Monitoring and Management Bureau）.

In addition, it is also important to guarantee the quality of the products via the creativity. New products from Tongrentang Health Pharmacia are entering into the market. For example, probiotics and its related products are designed according to the characteristics of the Chinese people. They can dissolve in the intestinal tract and play their roles more effectively there, unlike the traditional products, which are dissolved by stomach acid. If the probiotics and its related products are taken together, the microbial balance can be reached in intestinal tract. More than that, the health care products from Tongrentang are special since they are enriched with Chinese medicine and produce an advantage.

Finally, do not believe that one product can cure many diseases. There is no such magic in the world. Any health care product or medicine is quite effective in curing one symptom, but one symptom only. Curing all equals curing none. For instance, the health care products from Tongrentang Health Medicine are quite suitable to different groups of people: some are quite effective in bone fracture, some diabetes; some kidney diseases. Patients must prescribe medicine for specific ailments.