The Book of Changes tells us the characteristics of various foods from nature, so that we can effectively use food to nourish our bodies.
From the appearance, walnuts are like our brains. Eating more walnuts is good for our brains. The shape of black fungus is similar to our ears. Eating more black fungus can nourish our ears. Cashews look like our kidneys, so cashews have always been a good food for tonifying the kidney.
Walnut, auricularia auricula and cashew nuts are all "pictographic foods", and we can find many such foods in our daily life.
In our life, we can't live without eating, but how to eat and what to eat? It is necessary for us to think seriously, and the content of diet health preservation has been mentioned in the Book of Changes. At the same time, in the history of the development of the Chinese nation, we can also see many things related to diet.
Thousands of years have passed, and the diseases are still those diseases. There is a saying: "the country is people-oriented, and the people take food as the sky." Let's first look at the word "food", which is divided into "people" and "goodness". So, why did the ancestors make words like this? It is telling us that if there is a good harvest, then the people can live a good life, and then everyone will do good deeds. In this case, it will present a scene of peace and prosperity.
In addition, in ancient times, countries were called countries. This "millet" refers to five grains. Since ancient times, China has emphasized food and diet. According to the records of Oracle Bone Inscriptions thousands of years ago, the common diseases of human beings at that time were mouth-eye deviation, hemiplegia and other diseases. However, after thousands of years, our common diseases are still these. Haven't our society developed and science worked out a cure to control these diseases? Of course not.
So, what is the reason why our symptoms have hardly changed compared with those of thousands of years ago? In fact, this is because we have not mastered the diet structure.
In the Book of Changes, there are many contents about pictographs and images. So, what is "pictographic food"? The so-called "pictographic food" refers to what kind of organs a food grows, which will nourish this organ, such as walnuts, black fungus and cashews mentioned above.
Ingesting "pictographic food" can effectively nourish various organs of our body, and at the same time, it is also a traditional health preservation method, which can replenish the dirty. When we reach a certain age, the organs of the body will inevitably age. At this time, we need organs that nourish the body. In all organs of the body, nourishing the five internal organs is the most direct, because after food enters the organs, it can be directly absorbed by the organs without any transformation, thus obtaining a good nourishing effect. Therefore, nourishing the body by nourishing the viscera is a very simple and effective method.
There is a story. Once upon a time, a man had symptoms of rectocele and was in pain. He came to ask a doctor. The doctor told him that he could steam the large intestine, glutinous rice and glutinous rice together after returning, and add some astragalus to relieve the symptoms of proctoptosis. Later, he said to the doctor, "I did as you said as soon as I got back, and the result was really good." I didn't know that diet could also keep us away from diseases. This time it really opened my eyes. "
In fact, through the adjustment of diet, we can stay away from some minor illnesses and pains, and even have a good adjuvant treatment effect on some serious diseases. Therefore, we can't underestimate the influence of diet on our health.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that women are yin and men are yang. Women's roots are blood, while men's roots are essence. If female friends are deficient in blood, they might as well eat pork liver and stir-fried carrots, while if male friends are deficient in kidney, they can eat cashew nuts and stir-fried kidney flowers. In addition, such as yam and medlar soup, it also has a good kidney-tonifying effect. From this point, we can find that for men, it is better to make up for pollution with pollution.
If our eyes are not very good, then we can eat some fish eyes to improve our eyesight. See if the elderly at home often have heel pain. If that's the case, you can stew some pig's trotters for them, which can relieve their heel pain symptoms. Therefore, all kinds of methods to supplement the dirty are actually developed from the theory of "pictographic food".
So, what is "eating as righteousness"? Cold food nourishes yin; Warm food nourishes yang, that is, "food is like benevolence and righteousness". Once you find yourself yin or yang deficiency, you can use diet to regulate your body according to this principle.
Therefore, in fact, our ancestors listed a nutritional "recipe" in the Book of Changes. As long as you can maintain a reasonable diet, you can have a healthy body, and nourishing and conditioning your body can also start with diet.