Scallion noodle soup for colds, stewed pears with Fritillaria cirrhosa for coughs, tangerine peel soup for eliminating dampness, lotus root boiled water for stopping bleeding, and yam Gordon Euryale soup for diarrhea. . . We are all familiar with these. In daily life, you may have such an experience. When you encounter minor ailments and pains, you will always hear the old people around you recommend various dietary therapies-dietotherapy. Some of the effects are really good, but if you ask your elders the principle, they may not be very clear. They only know that their ancestors were handed down in this way, as long as it works. However, there are always some curious babies, and there are still many doubts in their hearts. Why can dietotherapy cure diseases? How did diet therapy develop? What simple dietotherapy methods are there in life? Let's explore it today.
First, the development of dietotherapy.
1. Primitive society: Humans have gradually discovered that some animals and plants can not only satisfy hunger, but also protect health and treat diseases.
2. Shang Dynasty: The cookware was reformed and a diet method of cooking and cooking soup was created.
3. Zhou dynasty: there appeared a "food doctor" responsible for diet nutrition and health care.
4. Warring States: The treatise of dietotherapy and health preservation appeared in Huangdi Neijing.
5. Han: Zhang Zhongjing attaches importance to diet health and its auxiliary treatment. (After Guizhi decoction, you need to "drink more than one liter of hot porridge to help medicine", and avoid cold, sticky, spicy and other foods during taking medicine. )
6. Sui and Tang Dynasties: monographs on dietotherapy came out. Such as: Qianjinfang, dietotherapy herbal medicine, edible herbal medicine, etc.
7. Song Dynasty: Specially set up "dietotherapy" class to introduce dietotherapy methods for various diseases.
8. Yuan Dynasty: Hu Sihui's Eating inherited the tradition of combining food, nutrition and medicine, and made many comments on the diet of healthy people.
9. Ming dynasty: dietotherapy and health care developed in an all-round way.
10. Recent situation: The development of chemistry has further promoted the development of dietotherapy.
Second, the way of diet therapy
1. paste: After physical treatment, food is broken into paste and processed into food for people to eat directly.
2. porridge: it is made of boiled rice. If the drugs are added and boiled together, it is called medicinal porridge, or a proper amount of medicinal juice can be mixed into porridge for patients to take.
3. Soup: Soup is a thick soup made of meat, eggs and seafood.
4. Tea: also known as "tea substitute", refers to the crude and finished products made of drugs with or without tea.
5. Wine: also known as "medicated wine", it is a liquid dosage form combining traditional Chinese medicine and wine, which can be soaked or brewed.
In life, as long as we distinguish the nature and taste of food and cook it properly, it can become a delicious food, which can not only satisfy hunger, but also cure diseases. It can be said that dietotherapy is a very safe way to keep fit!