Sun Simiao, a doctor in the Tang Dynasty, pointed out in "A Thousand Women's Diet Prescriptions": "The foundation of settling down is food; The speed of saving lives depends on medicine. "This means that we must rely on food to maintain life and strengthen our physique. To cure diseases and save lives, we must rely on drugs.
Diet and nutrition:
The normal maintenance of human life activities depends on food nutrition, which was called "Shui Gu subtle" in ancient times.
Medicine and food are homologous. Minor ailments, the initial stage of some diseases or the rehabilitation stage after the initial recovery of diseases, can be treated or nursed back to health with the help of "food medicine", which is called dietotherapy and food tonic in Chinese medicine.
Of course, dietotherapy can't cure all diseases, and treatment depends on drugs. Therefore, Sun Simiao, who was revered as the Bodhisattva of the King of Medicine by later generations, emphasized that "if a husband is a doctor, he must first know the source of the disease, know what he has committed and treat it with food. If the diet is not healed, then take the medicine. " The mantra can be described as the daughter of health care.
"Food is the most important thing for the people", "Food supplement is not as good as medicine supplement". However, diet is a double-edged sword for human health.
Huangdi Neijing called it "water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it". Pointed out that "yin has five flavors; Five flavors of yin and five houses are injured. " Yin essence refers to the five flavors that the human body depends on and come from diet; The five internal organs (five palaces) that store yin essence are also damaged by five flavors of diet.
This sentence clearly points out the duality of diet for human health. It can be said that both health and disease can be eaten.