China's earliest existing diet therapy monographs

     A disciple of tang dynasty medical sun simiao meng agreeable freedom (A.D. 621 - the "in) 714 herbal supplements in China is also the world of the earliest existing diet monographs.

    Our ancestors have long recognized diet and phlegm disease and a healthy relationship with food, they began to cure the disease, and has accumulated rich experience. Kaogongji (the "in" eating is carrying medical "duty, and has recorded on the food modulation. Sea classics, the root of Chinese magnoliavine was ranked recorded a lot of food in after the food and drug disease-treating effect. According to the phenomenological periodization records of qin has dietotherapy books - "forbidden" (shennong food seven volumes), pity the book has already lost. When jin sui tang dietotherapy monographs according to statistics have more than 40 species, these books now almost all has lost. Some books from the fragment information can be referenced heart square "medical found in the content.

     It is worth mentioning that sun simiao his "prepare urgent YaoFang", expensively specially wrote a roll of (volume 26) -- "food to article", this is our country the earliest extant about diet therapy designed articles. Claim: any disease sun-style first shall be first to food, food can't cure for the, again to take medication. He think food to not to eat more food, but in or expensive food can be beneficial to human needs. This monographs dietotherapy supplies amounted to 160 kinds of simple easy, and more. As to the night blindness widely used cattle, sheep and other animals for beriberi of liver, prevention and control contains vitamin more valley with leather Fried soup of cooked porridge edible, lack iodine sex strumous (gall with seaweed, kelp), animals Ye, cattle thyroid (deer Ye) to treat, make soup with treatment edema udinese carp, etc. Sun-style also thought: if diet to treat patients with, enough to make is good doctors. In under the influence of sun-style, his disciple dishes in the degree of agreeable freedom became part of the earliest extant diet book - "dietotherapy materia".

    Previous apiece summarized agreeable freedom diet treat diseases empirical knowledge and to collect materia food 200, the became "dietotherapy materia" (three volumes) original book, already are found there existing dunhuang mogao grottoes of ancient codex as well as a great many (original volume with British museum) was stolen. In the certificate of liancheng herbal ", "the heart of medical book party. Selected items in the book for easy pick the main fruit, vegetables, easy, most of these rich human physiological function must adjust the minerals and vitamins, but has the role of time fitness. Such as lotus root of "cold, Lord fill in, reposing, the interests of strength, in addition to force of 100 problems, long clothing, hardy not hunger, so doctors away." Wax gourd "cold, attending ascites, and the stranded bulge urine, stop to quench." Moreover, if in the book with food for some paper with cooking processing. Such as "Ti... make sauce lowing what incense, its food reactive better than the yu ren..." . The book also the earliest recorded pollen food.