Health medicinal food to health remedy order

Our correspondent WuZhi ZhangWenMing

China's traditional Chinese medicine reported

        Recently, the family lived in fujian province of zhangzhou HuLe into sir, listen to his colleagues speak of a medicinal food, with a variety of 10 Chinese herbal medicine special to boil the, eat up and sweet and very nourishing. Mr. Hu specially spent more than half of the time for cooking, but this kind of medicinal food eaten after half an hour, Mr. Hu feel lightheaded, soon symptoms get worse, even people see not pure. Sent to hospital just know, from liver function is abnormal at ordinary times, may of this medicinal food and some of the traditional Chinese medicine composition conflict.

        As people health care consciousness enhancement and the popularity of medical knowledge, "medicinal food restaurant" increasing in recent years, medicinal food menu also gradually into the ordinary restaurant and the family dinner table. In fact, diet and medicinal food are two concepts, diet without drugs, applicable range is wider; Medicinal food prepared by food and drug cooking and become, because "it is medicine 3 minutes poison", not all people have applied.

        Fuzhou general hospital of nanjing military general director doctor liu introduces, China has a long history of medicinal food, from the palace to folk, spread worldwide. But "dietotherapy" and "medicinal food" concept is often confuse people, in fact, "dietotherapy" and "medicinal food" already have the difference, and have a contact. "Dietotherapy" is in good health, to prevent and cure diseases, prolong life of a subject, the characteristic is get food efficacy in, but without drugs; "Medicinal food" is a food and drug, but it is not a simple addition of food and Chinese medicine, but in Chinese medicine diagnosis and distinguish guidance, by drug, food and condiment three and refined a both drug efficacy, and delicious food, to prevent and cure diseases, physical life of the special diets.

        Relatively speaking, dietotherapy medicinal food than the use of more wide range, but if the aim of preventing for illness for medicinal food and slightly better. But, medicinal food can't literally use after all "is a medicine three minutes poison", should follow some principles. Speak of traditional Chinese medicine pattern identification and treatment, the application of medicinal food should be based on syndrome differentiation material compatibility, such as blood deficiency for patients choose the food of the blood and Chinese date, peanuts, Yin for patients with medlar, lily, dwarf lilyturf, etc. At the same time of traditional Chinese medicine thinks, the person and the corresponding, the viscera of operation, and the nature of closely related to climate change. "With the cold, cold hot far far with hot", meaning that the properties of the cold drugs, should keep clear of the cold winter, and use properties of warm drugs, should avoid hot summer. This view also apply to medicinal food.

        In short, eat of medicinal food can't eat, according to different time, at different places, choose different ingredients as raw material to supplements, otherwise not only do not rise to the role of food, it will damage the body. In addition, the constitution of different age, when with medicinal food also should be different. Children's constitution and tender, select material shoulds not be big big heat. The old man more liver and kidney deficiency, drug use is unfavorable drying temperature; Pregnant women could move TaiQi, unfavorable use smooth the blood of the product.