Fact check:没有病可以吃中药吗？Can I take TCM medication when I do not have any illness?

当然可以。
现在的人的都处于亚健康的状态，即使身体检查指标都未见异常，但出现一些不健康的生理状态如失眠、便秘、腹胀等等。

这时候可以用中药调理！

或者你现在没有任何症状，但是中医师透过把脉和看舌头，判断你身体其实是有问题的，只是还有表现出来，可能随着年龄的增长，会慢慢浮现，这时候你也可以用中药调理。

中医不是治病，是治未病，就是还没生病，就先预防。

除此之外，药食同源就是中药又是药物也是食材，你家煮的汤也有放药材，所以没有病也可以吃。

Sure, you can still take TCM medication even if you do not have any discomfort or disease.
Nowadays, people are in suboptimal health status, meaning there are no abnormalities from laboratory examination but they are still presented with unhealthy physiological states such as insomnia, constipation, abdominal distension and other discomforts.
Thus, you can try Chinese medicine to ease your discomfort with less side effects.

If you do not have any symptoms now doesn't mean that you are healthy, Chinese medicine physicians will diagnose you  through pulse and tongue appearance, to determine your body constitution.

If your body constitution is imbalanced, you are advised to take chinese medicine to balance up your body. 

Chinese medicine emphasizes on health preservative, means preserving one's body so as to maintain good health, prevent diseases and prolong life expectancy.
In daily life, herbal soup that you drink contains herbs as well, thus people without any illness can take herbs as supplement.