Chinese people have always attached great importance to health care. Healthy and long life is a common hope of Chinese people, but the wisdom of our ancestors is definitely not based solely on living a long life. Quality and happiness in life are the most important. That's why there is a saying of "he has a child's face". Imagine that even if you live to be a hundred years old, all your physiological functions will decline when you are sixty years old, and you will spend your whole day in bed. Will you be happy? But these Over the years, we have often praised the health concepts of Westerners. However, due to differences in region, climate, environment and food materials, as well as issues of racial heredity, the health and wellness concepts suitable for Westerners can only be used as a reference for a small part. By copying it all, Chinese civilization can last for five thousand years. Not only do we have inheritance, but more importantly, our physical fitness. A long time ago, our ancestors understood the principle of the unity of nature and man and let nature take its course, and we were able to have high-quality food. Preserved. However, most of us today have only a superficial understanding of the ancients’ views on health care, which is really a pity. Today we are talking about medical treatment. Everyone should understand that no one will get sick if they eat whole grains. The ancients did not think this. Sickness is a bad thing. In the eyes of the ancients, getting sick is caused by the long-term accumulation of some of our incorrect daily behaviors. Therefore, in traditional medicine, the so-called traditional Chinese medicine, there is a theory of treating "pre-disease". The so-called "". "Being sick" does not mean giving up treatment if you are already sick, or asking people to see a doctor when you are not sick. It means keeping your body's functions running normally through reasonable health care methods, which includes the four seasons, solar terms, A state of harmony and unity in daily life related to diet, emotions, etc. The ancients believed that the reason why people become sick and sub-healthy is that the body is invaded by evil spirits. This evil spirit is not caused by evil spirits, but caused by incorrect behaviors. There are problems in various parts of the body, and they slowly defeat themselves. For example, in terms of their understanding of diet, the ancients never respected greed. Eating is not only to maintain one's life, but also to be responsible for one's own body. , they believe that everything is complementary to each other, so in the eyes of the ancients, eating is also a kind of treatment and maintenance. This is why traditional Chinese medicine has a long history of understanding diet and nutrition. Many years ago, "Book of Zhou" contained records of dietary medicine, and ""use five flavors, five grains, and five medicines to nourish the patient". The "Huangdi Nei Jing" has clear boundaries in dietary treatment and health preservation. Mawangdui Han Tomb The unearthed medical book "Fifty-two Prescriptions for Diseases" contains a large number of records of food being used as medicine. The "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" records about 50 kinds of medicinal foods. The "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases" also contains rich dietary therapeutic content, including " "Danggui, Ginger and Mutton Soup", "Pork Tripe Soup", etc. are still commonly used clinical dietary therapy prescriptions. Sun Simiao's "Essential Prescriptions for Emergencies" in the Tang Dynasty included a food treatment chapter, which is the earliest existing monograph on dietary therapy. Meng Shen, a famous scholar, medical scientist and dietician in the Tang Dynasty, wrote "Dietotherapeutic Materia Medica", which collected more than 200 kinds of herbal foods. It is the earliest existing monograph on dietary therapy in my country. There are detailed explanations. Hu Sihui in the Yuan Dynasty wrote "Yin Shan Zheng Yao", which is my country's first nutrition monograph. To this day, it still has guiding significance in terms of dietary matching, reasonable eating and the treatment of certain chronic diseases. . During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, dietary herbal medicine was further developed, and some even elaborated on the nutritional value and therapeutic value of food from a nutritional perspective. In modern times, great progress has been made in the research on nutritional components, especially the molecular quantification of food and the calculation of calories, which have injected modern scientific content into the ancient Chinese medicine nutrition. Today, our older generation will tell us that every season, we will eat some local ingredients to regulate the internal organs. In fact, it is to make our organs better adapt to the changes of the seasons. It has always been regarded as a norm for our ancestors to eat local seasonal ingredients and avoid out-of-season ingredients. In ancient times, "diabetes" is today's diabetes. The so-called disease of wealth is generally not suffered by poor people. It is precisely because those rich people at the top of the food chain have enough conditions to enjoy all kinds of delicacies from mountains and seas. They have gone against nature. The rule of health is to eat these things that are not in your own place. Although they taste delicious, the organs cannot absorb them. Instead, they produce toxins, cause evil spirits to invade, and get many strange diseases. On the contrary, those who have no conditions are poor. Apart from being thin and malnourished, they will not suffer from these strange diseases.
Today's society has developed and mankind has progressed. In the era of moderate prosperity, most people's desires can be satisfied. Therefore, you will see many diseases of wealth that were rare in the past, and the number of people suffering from them is gradually increasing, such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, gout, and hypertension. , hyperlipidemia, etc. It was rarely seen before. If you add Western fast food diet, then I tell you, if you are not good at maintaining health, you will definitely not go wrong with maintaining your health. The so-called water and grain essence, also known as grain qi and food qi, generally refers to the subtle substances provided by various diets and is the main source of dietary nutrition. Just as "Must-Read by Medical Sect" says: "" Once you have this body, you must have grain qi. The grain enters the stomach, spreads over the six internal organs, and the qi arrives. It harmonizes with the five internal organs to produce blood, and people use it to survive. also. "Qian Jin Yao Prescription" says: "The foundation of survival must be food. Those who don't know what to eat are not enough to survive." "It can be seen that only a reasonable diet is the basic principle to nourish the human body and maintain human life. Overeating is a hospitalization procedure for your body. Not only do not overeat and eat things that are not suitable for you and out of season, some traditional Health proverbs are also a good summary of the ancient wisdom of health care. If you pay attention, many health care methods are actually around you: some common sayings passed down by word of mouth and some simple habits contain effective health care methods. . There are some sayings about drinking soup in the south and the north: ""A sip of soup before a meal, no need to go to the pharmacy"; ""Drinking soup before a meal is better than a good medicine"; ""Drinking soup before a meal, you will be slim and healthy; "Drink soup afterward, the more you drink, the fatter you will become." What is the truth? From the mouth, throat, esophagus to the stomach, it is like a passage, which is the only way food must pass. Drinking soup before meals is equivalent to adding " "Lubricant" allows food to be swallowed smoothly and prevents dry and hard food from damaging the mucous membrane of the digestive tract. Adding some soup from time to time during meals can help dilute, stir, digest and absorb food. Afterwards, excessive secretion of gastric juice will cause excessive loss of body fluids and cause thirst. Drinking water at this time will dilute the gastric juice. Therefore, drinking soup before meals can reduce the occurrence of esophagitis, gastritis, etc. Of course, drinking soup is necessary. It varies from person to person. Generally, half a bowl of soup is appropriate before lunch and dinner, and more before breakfast, because the body loses more water after a night of sleep. It is best to drink soup about 20 minutes before meals, and it can also be taken slowly during meals. Eat a small amount of soup, and eat soup according to the comfort of your stomach. Avoid "binge drinking" before and after meals. On the contrary, drinking soup after meals is a way of eating that is harmful to health. Drinking soup after eating is easy to cause nutritional deficiencies. Excessiveness causes obesity. When food enters the human body, it is transformed into water and grain essence after being digested and absorbed by the stomach and spleen. The water and grain essence is further transformed into nutrients such as qi, blood, essence, body fluid, and fluid to nourish the human body and make life possible. The activity can be continued, so qi, blood, essence, and body fluid are the basic substances for nutritional functions. "Lingshu·Jueqi" says: "When the grain is full of qi, the bones are filled with moisture." It belongs to flexion and extension, leaks water, nourishes the brain, and moisturizes the skin, and is called liquid." It can be seen that body fluid is a normal liquid with moisturizing and nourishing effects in the human body. Among them, the thin ones are called fluids, and the ones that are turbid and thick are called fluids. The fluidity of fluid is greater, It is mainly distributed in the skin, muscles, orifices and other parts, and can penetrate into the veins to moisturize the whole body; the liquid is less fluid and mainly nourishes the joints, organs, brain and other parts to nourish the internal organs and tissues. : ""Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, it won't take the doctor to prescribe medicine"; ""Eating three slices of ginger in the morning is better than ginseng soup"; ""Eating ginger in the morning is better than ginseng soup; eating ginger in the evening is better than arsenic"; ""Eat a jujube a day, and you will never grow old in your life." In winter, people are accustomed to taking supplements and do less daily exercise. The body is prone to heat and phlegm, especially in middle-aged and elderly people. Radish belongs to earth, and according to the theory of the five elements of traditional Chinese medicine, it is in the middle, which is good for the spleen and stomach. , beneficial to the qi, choosing radish during meals can eliminate cereal grains, remove phlegm, relieve coughs, relieve thirst, and promote qi in the internal organs. Due to the heat in summer, people are accustomed to being greedy for cold food and like to take cold and cool products, which they feel again at night. Cold nights can easily produce summer heat and dampness, which can affect the spleen and stomach. Therefore, people have a bad appetite in summer and eat less and feel tired. Drinking some ginger soup or adding more ginger when cooking can not only dispel cold and heat, but also treat abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, etc. caused by eating unclean food. But it’s best to eat ginger in the morning, and it’s best to eat radish in the evening. In the early morning, when the gas in the stomach is waiting to rise, eating some ginger can strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach, paving the way for the digestion and absorption of food throughout the day. Moreover, the volatiles in ginger can speed up blood circulation, excite nerves, and make the whole body become more energetic. Warmth; at night, yang energy converges and yin energy rises. Therefore, you should eat more foods that can clear away heat and reduce qi and digestion. This will be more conducive to resting at night, and radish is a good choice.
The pungent and warm dispersing effect of ginger will affect people's normal rest at night, and eating pungent and warm ginger at night can easily produce internal heat, which will lead to "" internal heat" symptoms over time. Compared with ginger and radish, jujube is beneficial to the body. It is a good health product that nourishes Qi, nourishes blood, and calms the mind. It is very beneficial to patients with hypertension, cardiovascular disease, insomnia, and anemia. Eating dates every day can improve human immunity and inhibit cancer cells. Pharmacological studies have found that red dates can promote white blood cells. It produces, lowers serum cholesterol, increases serum albumin, protects the liver, and contains substances that inhibit cancer cells. The above are actually manifestations of the four qi and five flavors, which are the basic properties of dietary nutrition. Traditional Chinese medicine nutrition believes that food also has "" four qi. " and " "Five Flavors". The theory of Four Qi and Five Flavors is not only the basis for medication and treatment, but also an important basis for diet regimen and diet therapy. The four Qi are also called the four natures, which are the four different properties of cold, hot, warm and cool. Among them, cold and cool, hot and warm have their own natures, but they are different in degree. Warmth is inferior to heat, and coolness is inferior to cold. The four properties of cold, heat, warmth and coolness are opposite to the cold and heat of the disease. In terms of "Su Wen·Zhi Zhen Yao Da Lun" it says: "" Cold causes heat, and hot causes cold. "This is a great way to treat medicine, and it is also an important basis for choosing food. The five flavors refer to the five different tastes: sour, bitter, sweet, pungent, and salty. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the five flavors enter the stomach and separate the five internal organs to nourish them. , so that their functions can be exerted normally. Different foods have different selectivities for the internal organs. For example, "Lingshu·Five Flavors" says: ""The five flavors each go to their liking, and the sour taste of grains goes to the liver first. The grain tastes bitter, and the mind wanders first. Grain is sweet in taste and affects the spleen first. The grain tastes pungent and affects the lungs first. Grain tastes salty and goes to the kidneys first. "This division of five flavors is not only applicable to five grains, but also to five fruits, five livestock, five vegetables, five colors, etc. This is the theoretical basis of traditional Chinese medicine dietary nutrition. Understanding these conventional things does not require us to become a Old Chinese medicine does not mean that you are limited to rules and regulations, but it allows us to better understand the wisdom of the universe summarized by the ancients. Chinese health care is not superstitious and backward, and Western health care does not mean that it is wrong. It is more suitable for the body and region of Westerners. The development of our society today has increased everyone's speed. Slowing down has become a luxury. Few people care about the research and textual research on the traditional culture of the past. Not to mention practicing it, but I think that with the revival of traditional culture, we young people should regain the Chinese wisdom of health care and not let these things be passed down only among the older generation. Inheriting these things is our precious wealth. Disclaimer: The above content comes from the Internet, and the copyright belongs to the original author. If there is any infringement of your original copyright, please inform us and we will delete the relevant content as soon as possible.