People in China have always attached importance to health preservation. Health and longevity are the common hope of China people, but the wisdom of our ancestors is definitely not simply based on longevity. Quality of life and happiness are the most important. That's why there is a saying that "a crane sends a child's face". Imagine that even if you live to 100 years old, all your physiological functions will decline when you are 60 years old. Will you be happy if you spend all your time in bed? However, over the years, we have often praised the health concept of westerners. As we all know, the differences in geography, climate, environment and raw materials that are suitable for westerners' health preservation concept, as well as the problems of national inheritance, can only be used for reference in a small part, and cannot be completely copied. Chinese civilization can last for five thousand years, not only because we have been inheriting it, but more importantly, our physical quality, which was achieved a long time ago, because our ancestors understood the principle of harmony between man and nature. But now most of us have a superficial understanding of the ancient concept of health preservation, which is really a pity. When we talk about medical care today, we should understand that people will get sick if they eat whole grains. The ancients didn't think this disease was a bad thing. In the eyes of the ancients, diseases are caused by the continuous accumulation of some incorrect daily behaviors. Therefore, in traditional medicine, the so-called Chinese medicine, there is a saying that treatment means "not getting sick." The so-called "not getting sick" does not mean giving up treatment when you are sick, or going to see a doctor when you are not sick, but keeping your body in normal function through reasonable health preservation methods, including a harmonious and unified state in daily life related to the four seasons, solar terms, diet and emotions. The ancients believed that people were sick and sub-healthy because their bodies were attacked by evil spirits. This evil is not a monster, but because of incorrect behavior that leads to problems in all parts of our bodies and slowly destroys ourselves. For example, in the cognition of diet, the ancients never respected the desire for food. Eating is not only to maintain your life, but also to be responsible for your body. They think everything is complementary. Too much is too late, so in the eyes of the ancients, eating is also a kind of treatment and maintenance, and drug treatment is not as good as diet therapy. Traditional Chinese medicine has a long history of understanding diet nutrition. As early as 2000 years ago, there was a record of eating doctors, "five flavors and five medicines to raise their diseases." Huangdi Neijing has a clear definition in dietotherapy and health preservation. The medical book Fifty-two Prescriptions for Diseases unearthed from Mawangdui Han Tomb records a large number of foods used as medicine, and Shennong Herbal Classic records about 50 kinds of medicated diets. Treatise on Febrile Diseases is also rich in dietotherapy contents, among which "Danggui Ginger Mutton Soup" and "Zhudu Soup" are still commonly used in clinical dietotherapy prescriptions. Sun Simiao's "Bei Ji Fang" in Tang Dynasty is the earliest extant monograph on dietotherapy, which lists a monograph on dietotherapy. Herbal Diet, written by Meng Chang, a famous scholar, medical scientist and dietotherapy in Tang Dynasty, has collected more than 200 kinds of medicinal diets, which is the earliest extant monograph on dietotherapy in China. In Song Dynasty, Chen Zhi's "Book of Supporting Parents for the Aged" gave a detailed explanation on the feeding and nurturing of milk. In Yuan Dynasty, Hu Sihui wrote Diet, which was the first monograph on nutrition in China. Until today, it still has guiding significance in diet collocation, reasonable diet and the treatment of some chronic diseases. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, dietotherapy materia medica developed further, and some of them also expounded the nutritional value and therapeutic value of food from the perspective of nutrition. Great progress has been made in modern research on nutritional components, especially the molecular quantification of food and the calculation of calories, which has injected modern scientific content into the ancient Chinese medicine nutrition. Today, the older generation will tell us that every season comes, we will eat some local ingredients for viscera conditioning. In fact, it is to make our organs better adapt to the changes of the four seasons. Eating local seasonal ingredients and not eating out-of-season ingredients has always been regarded as a standard by our ancestors. The ancient "diabetes" is today's diabetes, the so-called "disease of the rich", the poor will not get it. It is precisely because those rich people at the top of the food chain have enough conditions to enjoy all kinds of food. They violated the law of natural health preservation and ate things that were not in their own place. Although it tastes delicious, it can't be absorbed by internal organs, but it produces toxins, causing the invasion of evil spirits and suffering from many strange diseases. On the contrary, those poor people who have no conditions will not get these strange diseases unless they are thin and malnourished. Today, with the development of society and the progress of mankind, most people's appetites can be satisfied in the well-off era, so you will see many wealth diseases that were rarely seen before, and the number of people suffering from these diseases will gradually increase, such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, gout, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and so on. Rarely seen before. If you go to match foreign fast food again, I'll tell you, it's not good to keep fit, and it's not wrong to raise the dead. The so-called subtle Shui Gu, also known as grain gas and food gas, refers to subtle substances provided by various diets and is the main source of dietary nutrition. As the doctor must read said: "As soon as you have this body, you will be endowed with grain qi, which will enter the stomach, drain into the six fu-organs and get qi, and harmonize with the five internal organs to produce blood. Human resources think that the living are also." A daughter needs a party "said:" The foundation of peace of mind must be food, and people who don't know what to eat are not enough to survive. "It can be seen that only a reasonable diet is the basic truth to nourish the human body and maintain human life. Overeating is to open a hospitalization procedure for your body. Not only don't overeat, but also eat things that don't suit you and are out of season. Some traditional health proverbs also sum up the wisdom of the ancients. If you pay close attention, many health-preserving methods are actually around you: some mantras and some simple habits contain effective health-preserving methods. There are some sayings about drinking soup in the south and the north: "You don't need to go to the drugstore for a bite of soup before meals"; "Drinking soup before meals is better than a dose of good medicine"; Drink soup before meals to make you slim and healthy; After eating soup, the more you drink, the fatter you get. "What is the reason? From the mouth, throat, esophagus to the stomach, it is like a passage, which is the only way for food. Drinking soup before meals is equivalent to adding a "lubricant" to this digestive tract, so that food can be swallowed smoothly and the digestive tract mucosa can be prevented from being dry and hard. Drinking soup from time to time helps to dilute, stir, digest and absorb food. If you don't have this habit, you will be thirsty if you secrete too much gastric juice after meals. Drinking water at this time will dilute the gastric juice. Therefore, drinking soup before meals can reduce the occurrence of esophagitis and gastritis. Of course, drinking soup varies from person to person. It is generally advisable to use half a bowl of soup before lunch and dinner, and more before breakfast, because after a night's sleep, the human body loses more water. The best time to drink soup is about 20 minutes before meals, or you can drink soup slowly and in small quantities. Soup should be based on stomach comfort, and "binge drinking" is prohibited before and after meals. On the contrary, drinking soup after meals is harmful to your health. Eating soup after meals can easily lead to overnutrition and obesity. Diet enters the human body, is digested and absorbed by the stomach and spleen, and is transformed into Shui Gu essence, and Shui Gu essence is further transformed into nutrients such as qi and blood, essence and body fluid, which nourishes the human body and enables life activities to continue. Therefore, qi and blood, essence and body fluid are the basic substances to play a nutritional role. Eating soup is also an important instruction. Lingshu Jue Qi said, "The valley is full of qi, and there is phlegm in the brain. It is a kind of body fluid, which can nourish the brain and moisturize the skin. "It can be seen that body fluid is a normal liquid with nourishing and nourishing effects. The liquid is clear and thin, and the liquid is turbid and thick. Body fluid is relatively mobile, mainly distributed in skin, muscles, orifices and other parts, which can penetrate into veins and moisturize the whole body; Liquid has little fluidity and nourishes organs and tissues mainly in joints, organs and brain marrow. Another example is these proverbs: "Eating radish in winter and ginger in summer does not require a doctor's prescription"; "Eating three slices of ginger in the morning is better than ginseng chicken soup"; Eating ginger in the morning is better than ginseng chicken soup; Eating ginger at night is better than arsenic "; Eat a jujube every day and you will never get old. In winter, people are used to tonic, exercise less every day, and it is easy to produce hot phlegm in the body, especially in middle-aged and elderly people. Radish belongs to soil, which is centered on soil according to the theory of five elements of traditional Chinese medicine. Beneficial to spleen and stomach and middle qi. Choosing radish during meals can eliminate cereal consumption, phlegm addiction, cough, thirst and viscera qi. Due to the hot summer, people are accustomed to being greedy for cold, like taking cold products, and feel the cold at night, which is easy to produce summer heat and dampness, affecting the spleen and stomach, so people have a bad appetite in summer and eat less and greasy. Drinking ginger soup or adding more ginger when cooking can not only dispel cold and relieve summer heat, but also treat abdominal pain, diarrhea and vomiting caused by eating unclean food. But it's better to eat ginger in the morning and radish at night. In the morning, the gas in the stomach needs to rise. Eating ginger can strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach, paving the way for digestion and absorption of a day's diet. Volatiles in ginger can speed up blood circulation, excite nerves and make the whole body warm. At night, the yang is converging, and the yin is exuberant. You should eat more foods that clear away heat and help digestion, which is more conducive to rest at night. Radish is a good choice. However, the pungent effect of ginger will affect people's normal rest at night. Eating pungent ginger at night is easy to produce internal heat, and there will be symptoms of "getting angry" for a long time. Compared with ginger and radish, jujube is a good product for invigorating qi and nourishing blood and calming the nerves, which is beneficial to patients with hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, insomnia and anemia. Eating dates every day can improve human immunity and inhibit cancer cells. Pharmacological research found that red dates can promote the production of white blood cells, reduce serum cholesterol, increase serum albumin, protect the liver, and contain substances that inhibit cancer cells. All of the above are actually reflecting that four flavors and five flavors are the basic nature 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 of medication, but also an important basis for diet health preservation and dietotherapy. Four qi, also known as four natures, are cold, hot and cool. Among them, cold and hot have their own commonness, but the degree is different. Temperature is second only to heat, and coolness is second only to cold. Cold, heat, warmth and coolness are relative to the cold and heat of the disease. " Su Wen's "On the Truth" said: "The cold is hot, and the hot is cold. "This is medication and an important basis for choosing food. Five flavors refer to five different flavors: sour, bitter, sweet, pungent and salty. Chinese medicine believes that the five flavors enter the stomach and separate the five internal organs, thus nourishing the five internal organs and making them function normally. Different foods have different selectivity for viscera. For example, the five flavors of Lingshu said, "The five flavors have their own ways, and the taste of the valley is sour, and the liver comes first. Valley tastes bitter, so cultivate your mind first. The grain is sweet, and the spleen should be removed first. Gu Weixin, take the lungs first. The grain is salty, so take the kidney first. This division of five flavors is not only applicable to five grains, but also to five fruits, five livestock, five vegetables and five colors, which is the theoretical basis of dietary nutrition in traditional Chinese medicine. Knowing these routine things does not mean that we become old Chinese medicine practitioners, nor does it mean that you are bound by rules and regulations. But let us know more about the wisdom of the universe summarized by the ancients. China's health care is not superstitious and backward, and there is nothing wrong with western health care, but it is more suitable for westerners' bodies and regions. Today, the development of our society has improved everyone's speed, and slowing down has become a luxury. In the past, few people paid attention to the research and textual research of traditional culture, let alone go to school, but I think with the revival of traditional culture, we young people should regain China's health wisdom and not let these things spread 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 let us know and we will delete the relevant content as soon as possible.