People naturally like to eat more foods with good taste and high nutritional value, but Chinese medicine believes that the nutritional value of food itself is of course important, and its eating method is also very important for the absorption of food nutrition and gastrointestinal health.

Eating on time is the key to maintain the body's rhythmic absorption and utilization of nutrients, and it is one of the important factors for food maintenance. Proper diet is one of the important links to maintain the balance of yin and yang in human body.

Chewing slowly can give full play to the body fluids in the mouth to irrigate the internal organs and moisten the whole body. Because many enzymes, vitamins, organic acids and other substances in body fluids are helpful for digestion, moistening the mouth, resisting bacteria, poison and cancer, overeating, overeating, conniving at the mouth and abdomen, overeating is easy to damage the spleen and stomach, so that the diet can not be fully digested, and violent anger is easy to corrode the viscera and cause diseases.

Food also has "four flavors and five flavors"

Cold food is good for fever. For example, bitter gourd is cold, which can clear away heat and detoxify, and can be used for red eyes and pain caused by fever or summer heat and liver fire. Cold and cold are only different in degree. For example, apples and bananas are cool fruits, which have the effect of promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, and are used to treat polydipsia caused by heat injury to yin and body fluids. Hot and warm food is good for colds. Such as mutton and dog meat, can warm the middle warmer and kidney, and can be used for abdominal pain, anorexia, soreness of waist and knees and impotence caused by spleen, kidney and cold.

At the same time, Chinese medicine believes that different tastes of food have different effects. Sour taste can converge, such as cherry can nourish liver and kidney and stop diarrhea; Xinsanneng can do it, such as scallion and coriander can dispel the cold; Bitter taste can purge fire, such as bitter gourd can clear away heat and relieve summer heat and detoxify.

Salty taste can soften and moisten, such as seaweed and kelp. Sweet taste can tonify deficiency, such as longan meat can tonify spleen and stomach, nourish blood and soothe the nerves; Jujube can tonify the spleen and stomach and qi and blood. There are many ways to keep in good health in TCM.