In Huangdi Neijing, it is pointed out that five flavors enter the stomach, and each is happy. Acid enters the liver first, bitter enters the heart first, sweet enters the spleen first, pungent enters the lung first, salty enters the kidney first, and it is also common to replenish qi for a long time.
In spring, you should eat more sweets. Sweetness belongs to the earth, and the earth breeds everything. Sweets are our main source of nutrition. Sweet food has the function of tonifying the middle energizer and harmonizing the spleen and stomach.
In summer, you should eat more spicy food. Pungent taste enters lung and large intestine meridian. Can spread lung qi. Pneumatic blood moves. People with poor qi and blood should use pungent flavor to make qi and blood flow, so that a pool of stagnant water can become living water and have vitality.
In autumn, you should eat more sour food. Acid belongs to yin, sour taste enters the liver and gallbladder, and tonifies the yin of liver and gallbladder. Yin represents water and liquid, that is, sour taste can promote the production of liver blood and bile. Sour taste into the liver can calm the liver and reduce fire, which is helpful to relieve damp-heat in the liver and gallbladder.
Eat more bitter food in winter. Bitter taste enters the heart and small intestine, which can purge heart fire and small intestine fire. Any medicine for clearing away heat and purging fire has bitter taste. The most widely known are bitter gourd and coptis chinensis, which are specially used to solve the problems of sore mouth and tongue, anxiety and insomnia.
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1 and the relationship between five flavors theory and human pathology
According to medical theory, the human body is in a dynamic balance, and the viscera are mutually restricted, interacted and unified by opposites. If the five flavors in the diet are partial to the food, and the five flavors act on the human body too much or too little, it will cause the rise and fall of the function of the viscera, destroy the balance of the unity of opposites of the viscera, and lead to the occurrence of diseases.
Huangdi Neijing takes the law of five elements as a clue, and lists the different influences of different living environments and eating habits on pathogenesis.
"Su Wentong's Theory of Strange Heaven" says: "The taste is too sour, the liver qi produces fluid, and the temper is absolutely; The taste is too salty, the bones are exhausted, the muscles are short and the heart is depressed; The taste is too sweet, the heart is full of asthma, the color is black, and the kidney is unbalanced; The taste is too bitter, the temper is not strong, and the stomach is strong; The taste is too spicy, the tendons are full of tears, and the spiritual center. "
They all pointed out that although the development of five zang-organs depends on five flavors, excessive use of five flavors will destroy the harmonious relationship of five zang-organs.
2. The relationship between five flavors theory and human physiology.
Huangdi Neijing holds that man is born with the qi of heaven and earth, and the qi of man is the qi of heaven and earth. Jing Lei explained: "The husband's taste comes from the qi of the earth, so he can produce the yin of the five internal organs". Yin, viscera and yin essence refer to the material basis.
Su Wen and Wu Dayun talk more specifically about "acid gives birth to liver, liver gives birth to tendons, and tendons give birth to heart" ... bitter gives birth to heart, heart gives birth to blood, blood gives birth to spleen ... sweet gives birth to spleen, spleen gives birth to meat, meat gives birth to lung ... Xin gives birth to lung, lung gives birth to moss, moss gives birth to kidney ... salty gives birth to kidney, kidney gives birth to bone marrow, and bone marrow gives birth to liver. "
It can be seen that the five flavors play an important role in nourishing and coordinating the five internal organs. Only by transforming the five flavors into essence and blood can we form an organic whole of human beings. It is generally believed that bitter heart, pungent lung, sour liver, sweet spleen and salty kidney have their own specific affinities for five flavors. Mastering this relationship between dirty and taste is of great significance for correct medication and diet maintenance.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-five flavors