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What do you mean by five fruits, five grains, five livestock and five vegetables?
Five fruits jujube, plum, apricot, chestnut and peach are collectively called five fruits, and the dietary principle advocated in Neijing is called "five fruits help".

Whole grains? One refers to rice, millet, millet, wheat and rice; The other refers to hemp, millet, millet, wheat and glutinous rice. The difference between the two is that the former has rice without hemp, while the latter has hemp without rice. The ancient economic and cultural center was in the Yellow River valley, and the main rice producing area was in the south, while the rice planting in the north was limited, so there was no rice in the original "five grains".

Five animals and five animals refer to cattle, dogs, sheep, pigs and chickens. There is a saying that "the five animals are beneficial", that is, within the framework of the five elements theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the five animals have corresponding relations with the five flavors and five internal organs, and the five animals also have their dirty things, which guide the dietary nutrition principles of traditional Chinese medicine.

Five dishes in Chinese medicine terminology, the ancient five dishes refer to sunflower, leek, epimedium and onion. "Five flavors of Lingshu" said: "Kwai Gan, leek acid, fresh, bitter and scallion." "Su Wen Dirty Qi Method": "All five dishes are stuffed." Five dishes are representatives of vegetables listed from the perspective of sex and taste, referring to all kinds of vegetables.

The expanded edition of Huangdi Neijing consists of Lingshu and Suwen, which is the earliest medical classic in China and one of the four classic works of traditional medicine (the other three are Difficult Classic, Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Shennong Herbal Classic).

Huangdi Neijing is a comprehensive medical work, which establishes the theories of Yin and Yang, five elements, pulse condition, Tibetan image, meridians, etiology, pathogenesis, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, health preservation and luck. Its basic material comes from the long-term observation of life phenomena in ancient China, a lot of clinical practice and simple anatomical knowledge.

Huangdi Neijing laid the foundation of human physiology, pathology, diagnosis and treatment. It is a medical work with great influence in China and is called the medical ancestor.