In health care administration, more tonic medicines but less purgative ones are advisable; neutral-and mild-natured drugs but small dosage are advisable; the stress is placed on the spleen and kidney with the five zang organs concurrently taken into account; the tonification is based on differentiation of physique with yin and yang regulated; more dosage forms of bolus, powder, plaster and pill are used but less decoction is applied; medication and dietary therapy are concurrently adopted according to the specific conditions. Only in this way can the old people's physiological characteristics be suited to, abuses rectified, diseases prevented and life prolonged.