Nutrients belong to the category of modern nutrition and are the basic structural components of matter. Includes six nutrients: protein, carbohydrate, fat, vitamins, minerals, water and other ingredients, which are the basic components of the human body. Lack or excess will bring disease problems. ?
In traditional Chinese medicine, some nutrients in food are consistent with nutrition, but the ingredients of herbal food belong to the non-nutritional range. The function of traditional Chinese medicine is not through the six nutrients in medicine, but through the active structures of non-nutrients such as triterpenoids, saponins, esters and alcohols, so it has nothing to do with nutrients. It can be said that TCM health preservation contains the elements of modern nutrition and is more extensive.
The two have different effects on human body, in which nutrients are necessary for human body to supplement every day, but traditional Chinese medicine is not. When health is threatened, only Chinese medicine is included. Therefore, health maintenance depends on nutrition, and disease rehabilitation depends on Chinese medicine, which is their core role. Therefore, no matter how important nutrients are, they have no real effect on the treatment of diseases, but they can be used as auxiliary treatment. This is the national definition of health food. Of course, the content of TCM health preservation can also be explained from the viewpoint of nutrition, which is a more in-depth content and is omitted here.
Conclusion: Therefore, nutrition can not be without the content of TCM health preservation. At present, most nutrition textbooks also include Chinese medicine dietotherapy.