Meridian tropism classification
Centripetal meridian food
Medicinal and edible purposes: wine, lily, peach kernel, longan, wild jujube seed and lotus seed.
Vegetables and fruits: shepherd's purse, lotus root, lotus root, pepper, arrowhead, lotus leaf, watermelon, wax gourd and persimmon.
Cereals: mung beans, adzuki beans and wheat.
Meat: pigskin, sea cucumber.
Liver meridian food
Medicine and food are homologous: wine, placenta Hominis, purslane, lotus leaf, dandelion, Sophora japonica, peach kernel, hawthorn, Ziziphus jujuba seed, mulberry, almond, wolfberry fruit, citron, bergamot, papaya and leek seed. Vegetables and fruits: tomato, towel gourd, rape, leek, shepherd's purse, Toona sinensis, Artemisia annua, cherry, dark plum, loquat, litchi, mango, fig, plum and arrowhead.
Cereals: vinegar, black sesame.
Meat: jellyfish, herring, eel, shrimp, turtle and crab.
Spleen meridian food
Medicinal and edible purposes: ginger, purslane, papaya, cinnamon, lotus leaf, hawthorn, Siraitia grosvenorii, dark plum, jujube, fig, longan pulp, Ziziphus jujuba seed, lotus seed, dried tangerine peel, seaweed and Euryale ferox.
Vegetables and fruits: coriander, bitter vegetable, lotus root, lotus root knot, eggplant, tomato, tofu, water bamboo, rapeseed, rape, shepherd's purse, kohlrabi, pumpkin, taro, lentils, peas, carrots, winter melon skin, cowpea, pepper, garlic and apple.
Cereals: buckwheat, sweet potato, sorghum, japonica rice, glutinous rice, millet, barley, wheat, black beans, coix seed, broad beans and soybeans.
Meat: ham, pig (meat, liver, blood, belly, heart), beef, chicken, goose, mutton, dog meat, loach, silver carp, carp, crucian carp, eel,
Lung meridian food
Medicinal and edible purposes: ginger, lobster sauce, mustard seed, pepper, seaweed, almond, lily, walnut kernel, Siraitia grosvenorii, dark plum, ginkgo, citron, dried tangerine peel, Allium macrostemon, wine and tea.
Vegetables and fruits: onion, onion, garlic, shepherd's purse, coriander, water bamboo, white radish, winter melon seeds, rapeseed, radish seeds, rape, lotus root knot, Artemisia annua, carrot, celery, wax gourd, mushrooms, arrowheads, laver, sugarcane, persimmon and water chestnut.
Cereals: Coix seed, glutinous rice
Meat: pig lung, pig skin, goose, duck egg, white duck and silver carp.
Kidney meridian food
Medicine and food are homologous: seaweed, hippocampus, mulberry, coix seed, medlar, walnut kernel, cinnamon, euryale seed and lotus seed.
Vegetables and fruits: garlic, mustard, Toona sinensis, cowpea, chestnut, leek, leek seed, pepper, fennel, cherry, pomegranate, grape and plum. Cereals: broad beans, millet, wheat, black sesame seeds, black beans and potatoes. Meat: jellyfish, sea cucumber, carp, eel, shrimp, yellow croaker, ham, pork, pig kidney, pig liver, pig blood, pig heart, quail eggs, white duck, mutton, dog meat, placenta hominis and pigeon eggs.
Stomach meridian food
Medicine and food are homologous: ginger, lobster sauce, dandelion, bergamot, hawthorn, jujube,
Vegetables and fruits: pepper, fennel, leek, sugarcane, apple, pear, peach, cherry, watermelon, orange, grapefruit, hazelnut, water chestnut, lemon, mushroom, radish seed, pumpkin seed, potato, onion, bitter gourd, lotus root, eggplant, tomato, spinach, lentil and pea.
Cereals: sorghum, glutinous rice, millet, mung bean, buckwheat, barley, wine and vinegar.
Meat: milk, chicken, pork, pork, pig heart, trotters, pig liver, pig blood, ham, dog meat, beef, herring, crucian carp, river snail and yellow croaker.
The following "food meridian tropism" table gives a simple explanation of the above situation.
Meridian tropism represents the main function of food in stomach meridian.
Ginger, cinnamon, radish, watermelon, persimmon in lung meridian, honey, nourishing yin and moistening dryness, mustard tuber for relieving pain, water chestnut for resolving phlegm, medlar in liver meridian for treating night blindness, blind mustard tuber, chrysanthemum morifolium for treating red eye swelling and pain, walnut kernel, sweet almond, banana for moistening dryness, relieving cough, facilitating defecation, treating lung dryness, intestinal dryness, cough and constipation. Among the foods we eat every day, most of them are flat foods, followed by warm foods and cool foods.
Hot food
Mustard seeds, trout, cinnamon, pepper, pepper, etc.
Hot food
Glutinous rice, sorghum rice, chestnuts, dates, walnuts, almonds, leeks, fennel, coriander, pumpkin, ginger, onion, garlic, longan, lychee, papaya, cherry, pomegranate, ebony, fragrant rafter, bergamot, eel, bighead carp, silver carp, shrimp, etc.
light food
Rice, corn, peanuts, soybeans, broad beans, red beans, black beans, peas, lentils, sweet potatoes, potatoes, taro, lotus seeds, hazelnuts, euryales, mushrooms, tremella, fungus, Chinese cabbage, shepherd's purse, kohlrabi, Chinese cabbage, carrots, onions, plums and figs.
cold drink and snack
Millet, barley, wheat, buckwheat, coix seed, mung bean, tofu, water chestnut, mushroom, eggplant, white radish, white gourd, towel gourd, rape, spinach, amaranth, celery, orange, orange, apple, pear, duck egg, etc.
cold drink and snack
Bitter gourd, tomato, cucumber, bracken, bamboo shoots, Zizania latifolia, lotus root, water chestnut, sugarcane, persimmon, banana, mulberry, watermelon, melon, laver, kelp, razor clam, snail, etc.
Meridian tropism according to taste
Food can be divided into five categories according to its "taste": pungent, sweet, sour, bitter and salty. Among the five flavors, the sweet one is the most, the salty one and the sour one are the second, the spicy one is the least and the bitter one is the least.
sweet food
Rice and flour miscellaneous grains, vegetables, dried and fresh fruits, chicken, duck and fish, etc. Its efficacy has the function of tonifying and strengthening, and people with qi deficiency, blood deficiency, yin deficiency, yang deficiency and deficiency of five internal organs are suitable to eat more sweets. Although sweetness can replenish qi and blood, it can also eliminate muscle tension and detoxify, but eating too much sweets will make you fat, which is the cause of many cardiovascular diseases such as arteriosclerosis. Therefore, such patients and diabetics should avoid eating sweets.
Sour food
Tomatoes, hawthorn, grapes, apricots, lemons, oranges, etc. Has astringent and astringent effects, and is suitable for patients with chronic diarrhea, dysentery, cough, asthma, hyperhidrosis, hyperhidrosis, frequent micturition, nocturnal emission and nocturnal emission. Sour taste can also increase appetite, strengthen spleen and appetite, enhance liver function and improve calcium and phosphorus absorption rate. But eating too much acid can lead to digestive disorders.
Spicy food
Ginger, green onion, onion, pepper, leek, etc. Its efficacy can disperse qi, promote qi circulation and dredge blood vessels, and it is suitable for exogenous exterior syndrome or pathogenic wind, cold and dampness. Pungent taste can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, enhance digestive juice secretion, enhance amylase activity, promote blood circulation and metabolism, and has the functions of dispelling cold and dredging collaterals. If you have an exogenous cold, you should eat spicy food such as ginger, onion and perilla to dispel the external cold. For those with stomachache, abdominal pain and dysmenorrhea caused by stagnation of cold, they should eat more spicy foods such as pepper, fennel, long pepper, Amomum villosum and cinnamon to facilitate the circulation of qi, dispel cold and relieve pain; Patients with wind-cold-dampness arthralgia should drink spicy white wine or medicated wine to dispel wind and cold and warm blood vessels.
Salty food
Seafood, pork, dog meat, pig offal, etc. Its efficacy can be soft and firm, can disperse the knot, and can also moisten the lower body. People with tuberculosis, lump and constipation should eat it. Salty food, mostly seafood and some meat. If the jellyfish tastes salty, it has the functions of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, resolving food stagnation and moistening intestines. It is most suitable for cough due to phlegm heat, phlegm core, lump accumulation, qi stagnation in children and dry stool. Kelp is salty, has the function of softening and resolving phlegm, and is suitable for people such as furuncle, scrofula and phlegm-fire tuberculosis. Pork, a common food, is salty and can nourish yin and moisten dryness. It is also suitable for people with fever, body fluid injury, dry cough and constipation.
Bitter food
Bitter gourd, bitter vegetable, etc. Its efficacy can clear diarrhea and dry dampness, and it is suitable for patients with heat syndrome and dampness syndrome. For example, bitter gourd tastes bitter and cold, which is suitable for people with fever, polydipsia, heatstroke, red eyes, sores and furuncles to eat with bitter vegetables to clear away heat and improve eyesight, detoxify and purge fire. Another example is tea, which tastes bitter and cool, and also has the effect of clearing away diarrhea. It is suitable for drinking in summer, and has the effects of clearing brain, quenching thirst, promoting digestion and resolving phlegm.
Nourishing and regulating menstruation
Chinese medicine also divides food into different types according to its nourishing function, mainly including the following four categories:
Buqi food
Rice, millet, yellow rice, glutinous rice, barley, wheat, naked oats, soybeans, lentils, peas, potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, carrots, mushrooms, chicken, beef, rabbit meat, herring, silver carp and so on.
Blood-enriching food: carrot, longan, litchi, mulberry, blood tofu, animal liver, animal meat, sea cucumber, flat fish, etc.
Aphrodisiac food
Leek, sword bean, cowpea, walnut kernel, mutton, dog meat, venison, animal kidney, pigeon eggs, eel, shrimp, mussel, etc.
Ziyin food
Chinese cabbage, pear, grape, mulberry, medlar, black sesame, tremella, auricularia, lily, milk, pork, turtle, croaker, squid, etc.
To sum up, the theory of food meridian tropism in TCM theory is an important theoretical basis of Chinese traditional diet. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the health care and conditioning functions of food and drink are by no means exclusive to exotic foods, nor are they just the amount of "nutrients". Instead, according to the symptoms, disease location, disease nature, age, sex, physique type, season and geographical factors of patients, combined with the theory of food taste and tropism, the suitability and taboo of choosing food are analyzed. This colorful and dialectical scientific concept of dietary taboo is not found in modern nutrition and western medicine theory, and is of great value to Chinese medicine.