Indeed, we have to eat three meals a day. To some extent, the food we eat will become a part of our body. Zhuangzi said, "All over the world, one breath".
Everything is made up of qi. When we eat food, we are actually angry with it. In this way, diet is really important to our health.
So how to eat is wisdom?
The first is to learn to eat at the right time.
Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to the unity of heaven and man and conforms to nature. In fact, the same is true of diet. What is nature? Is to eat and drink according to the laws of heaven and earth. Eating at the right time, in short, is what season requires us to eat. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the climate changes throughout the year are spring, long summer, autumn harvest and winter sickness, and so is the human body.
No matter what kind of food, it will grow the fullest and most nutritious only in its growing season.
For example, this season is winter, and the most common foods we eat are Chinese cabbage and radish. Chinese cabbage is very interesting. There is a folk saying: "Frosted vegetables are delicious", which means that frosted vegetables in this season are not only fresh and delicious, but also sweet.
Because frosted vegetables resist a lot of cold, can eating them in our bodies resist the cold outside?
In addition, winter is the main season for storage, and winter is a good time for tonic. You can eat some warm food or seed food, such as yam, which is very good. Eating more yam in this season can effectively tonify the spleen and kidney. How much Yang Can will rise in the coming year depends on how much you hide now in winter.
In addition to following the laws of heaven and earth, Chinese medicine also pays attention to syndrome differentiation and treatment, so we can also eat according to our own constitution.
For example, some people say that they are cold, hot and so on, in fact, that is to say, each of us has our own physical deviation. Traditional Chinese medicine divides the human body into nine constitutions: Yang deficiency constitution, Yin deficiency constitution, Qi deficiency constitution, Qi stagnation constitution, phlegm-dampness constitution, damp heat constitution constitution, blood stasis constitution and peace constitution.
Eating according to constitution, in short, means eating different foods according to different constitutions. For example, people with yang deficiency can eat spicy products such as ginger to help generate yang, people with yin deficiency can eat more nourishing foods, such as lilies and tremella, and people with qi stagnation can eat some foods that promote qi, such as roses, to soothe the liver and regulate qi.
Of course, Chinese medicine is not absolute, but nine kinds of constitution, which is just convenient for us to understand. In fact, we can't be completely a certain constitution. Even if you judge that you belong to a certain constitution, you can't absolutely say that you just follow some absolute standard.
Influenced by western medicine and nutrition, we modern people are used to understanding things through simple cutting. It is very easy to understand and popularize such standards, but it will also prevent us from truly understanding the essence of things.
This brings us the third principle of diet: to eat according to the state and needs of the body. Because a food is good for health, there is no universal standard that is divorced from specific people and specific situations.
The differences between people are so great that what suits one person may not suit that person.
Therefore, although there are some standards in Chinese medicine, for example, people with yang deficiency and heavy phlegm should not eat more cold things such as fruits, but we still have to return to the present state and make some detailed explorations and attempts on the body, that is, eat according to the present state and needs of the body. If you can grasp this degree, you will find that many times the food we like to eat is actually what the body really needs at this moment.
Of course, this realm may be very easy for the ancients. In the past, the ancients used mash and rice wine to treat diseases. But modern people have deviated from the road of health for a long time, and it may be difficult at first.
However, we can also train and cultivate our perception of this part of the body in our daily life.
Therefore, learning Chinese medicine is also a process of learning how to live a good daily life.
We can learn Chinese medicine and some basic health knowledge to appreciate the dietary wisdom of our China culture, so as to better serve our health.
In modern times, we often say that we should have cultural self-confidence. The word culture may not be as tall as we thought, or it may be hidden in our daily life, waiting for each of us to explore and explore.