From the mawangdui excavated bamboo friends

Look at the ancient culture of health food

Ding Shudong Shandong zhucheng center for mental health

China's traditional Chinese medicine to

        Bamboo friends is made of woven bamboo sticks is filled boxes, mawangdui 48 bamboo unearthed from no. 1 was writing friends, the inside is filled with a variety of funerary objects. According to the bamboo slips of bamboo tied outside friends to annotation, 48 in bamboo friends with 30 friends to food, Chinese herbal medicine and plant stem class 8 friends, clothing and fabric 6 friends, model apparatus for class 4 friends. Thus, food accounted for 62.5% of all the grave goods, embody and highlights the feature of "saying" claims. From 30 food bamboo friends to judging on the food, the main food of western han dynasty is unusually rich, the staple food is rice, wheat, millet, millet, soybean, red bean, sayaka, grain; Fushi has the fruit such as pear, plum, Yang mei, there are east kwai, mustard, bamboo shoots, ginger, lotus root, such as vegetables, there are cattle, sheep, pig, dog, rabbit meat, such as a grain. Unearthed bamboo food friends to reflect the wisdom of ancient people's superb diet, no doubt this feeding regimen today for us to provide the beneficial reference.

        Of traditional Chinese medicine has always attached great importance to feeding regimens, summarizes in huangdi neijing "grain for raising five fruit for help, five livestock for profit, the five dishes for the filling, the smell and clothing, in order to save energy and" principles of meal preparation. Should we use in our everyday life with "grain", "five fruit", "five cattle", "five dishes" reasonable collocation, to fully replenish qi and subtle, safeguard human health and longevity. This diet is tie-in from mawangdui excavated bamboo friends held in food can. A life sanbao said the "essence" is the source of human life, and diet water formed by subtle is an important source of human subtle material, also is the soul of human cases of gas im. So how do we achieve a reasonable meals, which have the effect of poly (refined gas? In summary, four words, namely "grain for a long life, five fruit to help the spleen and stomach, five livestock for yi feng muscle, five vegetables for good nutrition".

        Grain japonica rice, adzuki bean, wheat, soybeans, millet, etc., is a Chinese traditional staple food, and for the modern man who used to eat refined or processed foods, grain has become a kind of ingredients dispensing and ornament. TCM holds that "grain and the spleen, natural everything, alone the thick grain", in fact, almost all the essential nutrients for human body need exists in grain, such as minerals, vitamins, cellulose, etc. Especially cellulose not only can prevent constipation, colon cancer the happening of the "modern civilization disease", also because of its low quantity of heat, full of strong, can delay the natural barrier of gastrointestinal emptying and become the prevention and treatment of obesity. Grain not only for food, also can be used as a medicine used for the prevention and treatment of disease. Such as, medicine can repair the benefit of japonica rice qi, spleen and stomach, in addition to polydipsia, antidiarrheal, whereas adzuki bean can be heat-clearing and detoxifying, heat except vexed, water swelling; More "expensive" of grain of wheat, the huangdi neijing, called the valley of "heart", its oneself yangxin, nourish Yin, for female menopause and nurse.

        Five fruit namely, peach, plum, apricot, chestnut, jujube, etc., is an important source of nutrients in the body, of which, organic acids, minerals, vitamins, cellulose, etc is very important to human health, and also have certain dietotherapy function of some diseases. Known as the "fairy", "longevity fruit," said the peach is a suit is a treasure, peach flavor GanWei acid, temperature, the folding of the lung stop sweat, invigorate the circulation of negative effect, it is often used as a treatment of the consumptive cough, high blood pressure, arteriosclerosis with food; Peaches in the iron content is higher, can be caused by iron deficiency anemia prevention. Peach kernel extracts have certain anticoagulant effect, and has good treatment effect to liver cirrhosis, liver fibrosis; Peach kernel contained in the hydrolysate of bitter apricot glycosides also have significant damage to cancer cells. Can naphthol is contained in the peach blossom, in addition to full moisture, detumescence; Peach blossom also to catharsis and no stimulation to the intestinal wall. Chestnut is the care of old people, rich in unsaturated fatty acids and vitamins, can effective prevention and control of hypertension, coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis and other cardiovascular disease, also can prevent osteoporosis, waist and leg weakness, bones and muscles pain, etc., effectively delay aging process.

        Five livestock cattle, sheep, namely (pigs), chickens, dogs and so on, is the body supplier of high quality protein, containing essential amino acids, and can supply of iron, copper, zinc and other trace elements. Compared with the developed countries such as Britain and America, our country residents prefer to vegetarian food is given priority to, its shortcomings of dietary fat energy, thus increasing meat when there is profit. Dog meat taste salty, warm, has five zang-organs, warm waist and knee, and benefits the kidney strong sun, benefit stomach gas, modern research also found that the dog can effectively improve blood circulation, promote human digestion and absorption. From writing unearthed bamboo friends to find food, is used to record all kinds of bamboo slips have 29 of meat soup, especially to most dog meat soup. Rice congee to join made dog meat, dog meat at the end of the han dynasty are favorite food. In addition, a variety of elbow is also the highlight of bamboo friends to hidden meat food, people in the western han dynasty was to pigs, cattle, sheep cubits, and the dog was all like. Now meat because of has the very high nutritional value, with its unique palatability and chewiness, also become people advocate material, on the table and have anti-cancer anti-cancer effect. Vegetables are the main source of dietary fiber, can reduce or prevent materials such as cholesterol absorption; It contains rich minerals such as iron, calcium, phosphorus, etc., can meet the needs of the human body each period growth and development; Contains a lot of physiological active substances, which is beneficial to maintain and strengthen the function of the body. Some proverb "tofu cabbage, seemingly ordinary cheap Chinese cabbage, rich in vitamin C, calcium, and cellulose, can increase appetite, irritable bowel, removing blood stasis, have the effect of hemorrhoids, and gastric and duodenal ulcers have assisted effect. Cabbage also contains trace elements molybdenum, can prevent carcinogenic nitrite, also the other contains an enzyme that helps decomposition of estrogen, can reduce the incidence of breast cancer in women. Root, stem, leaf, seed of Chinese cabbage can be used as a medicine medicinal purposes, such as bok choy boiled water to wash the outside alone is a coup for the treatment of frostbite.

        Medicine food homology, every meal all medicine, "the grain", "five fruit", "five animals", the configuration of the "five dishes" fully shows the beauty of rational diet, daily life if we can know how to eat, to eat, insist on keeping in good health habit of feeding, small food tend to eat a big effect. "The father of this, will venture to eat. I do not know the appropriate food, not enough to save living also." As early as 1400 years ago who sun simiao told people, by the pre-emergency daughter side normal diet is essential to maintain vitality of basic material, if you don't know to take appropriate way of feeding, will directly affect our lives and life. Modern medical study also pointed out that the rational diet is healthy "four cornerstone" of the first cornerstone. Is the so-called "saying" claims, by writing unearthed bamboo friends, we can understand the general picture of health food and more than 2000 years ago.

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