Frost's Descent Hits Record 32.3 Degrees as Chinese Medicine Practitioners Warn This Year Is 'Heat-Dryness' and Caution Against Indiscriminate Warming Tonics

The Hong Kong Observatory recorded 32.3 degrees on Frost's Descent this year, the hottest Frost's Descent on record, with the health-preservation approach shifting from 'cool-dryness' to 'heat-dryness'. People with a heat constitution should use gentle, moistening combinations such as glehnia root, Solomon's seal rhizome and dwarf lilyturf tuber, while those with a cold constitution should use warm, moistening ingredients to strengthen the spleen, and should not follow the trend of drinking glehnia root and Solomon's seal rhizome. Honey must be dissolved in warm water to obtain the effect of cooked use warming the centre, and those with cold-dampness constitution and diarrhoea should avoid it.