The principle of medicinal food

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China's traditional Chinese medicine reported

        In recent years, medicinal food used to assist cure disease and the health care, more and more get the welcome of people. Medicinal food is how to shape? When making specific should pay attention to what way?

        The medicinal food has a long history, it ever since the human, medicinal food is people the use of consciously or unconsciously. In the huangdineijing, cold-induced febride, the daughter party ", "dietary" and so on the classical remedies have special discusses the content of the medicinal food.

        Medicinal food is the medicinal quietly, and won't injure viscera, especially suitable to the old and weak people. Medicinal food is in the basic theory of TCM guidance, according to food function, in view of the constitution that makes state, etc. Only to be Chinese medicine theory and food knowledge can make medicinal food.

        With the development of science and technology, the application principles dietotherapy medicinal food except keep the traditional diet principle, and joined the modern nutrition some dietary principle. Mainly in the following aspects:

        Section comfortable cold-temperate diet

        "Section diet", is the diet to be temperate, do not eat and drink too much, too full, also do not excessive dieting, to quantitative eating. Abstemious, it means that diet should have rhythms, dine on time, that time eating. "Optimal cold-temperate", on the one hand, is refers to the diet of cold temperature to accord with human body temperature, not too cold nor overheating. On the other hand is to point to the cold temperature properties to diet and season and physical fitness, spring, summer, appropriate cold nature diet, autumn winter is warm nature diet.

        Reasonable collocation to and tasty

        "I and five" is refers to the food have acid, bitter, Kennedy and Michael essien, salty, tasty, and five to the human body has a different set of affinity. Five reconcile can play a vital role fully nourish, so that the function of the five zang-organs balance between coordination. In addition, consideration should be given to the food's nutrition composition complementary role, to move, plant food intake balance, in order to ensure sufficient and variety of nutritional needs.

        Three for the specific

        "Three for the specific", is in order, because, YinRenZhiYi.

        "The evaluation of" refers to the season and characteristics and inner organs, the close relationship between Yin and Yang qi to choose suitable for food. Liver advocate spring, summer the heart, spleen Lord long summer, lung Lord autumn, the kidneys winter, in each season, eat the food of the corresponding compensation and saves nine.

        "Adjust measures to local conditions", it is according to the different geographical environment choose diets. Northwest the terrain, Yang hot gas shortage, cold and diet appropriate spicy warm; Southeast low-lying, Yin cold gas lack, climate warmed, and diet appropriate Kennedy light cold cool.

        "YinRenZhiYi", it is to point to according to the gender, age and physical to choose the food. Physiological characteristics of men and women, old and young, physiological status and qi Yin and Yang ups and downs is different, so to choose the appropriate diet accordingly.

        Careful selection to eat and safety to give priority to

        Making dietary supplements, first of all, should choose "edible" product, not the dietary join mass medication, or with drugs is given priority to, or so-called "medicinal food", not only taste is too strong, hard "including", it is difficult to be accepted by people, and for long-term use, easy to have side effects, but harmful body. Dietotherapy medicinal food must be with food is given priority to, with an appropriate drugs, should comply with the "food" and "security" requirement, try to choose a good or taste of dietary flavor the impact is not big or after cooking processing can reach a certain flavor requirements of the Chinese traditional medicine. In addition, dietary as a diet, for safety, facilitate family popularization, in the choice of Chinese herbal medicine, should try to choose those no significant side effects and no strict dose requirements of the Chinese traditional medicine.

        Medicinal food has a long history and profound content, we need to constantly practice slowly exploration, the accumulation of experience, just can be safe to eat, and reach health health purpose.