In the last chapter, we talked about the balance of diet. In this lecture, we will talk about the balance in diet. What does "balance" mean? When this problem is solved, we can understand the problem of breach, that is, the problem of balance, that is, the five flavors that our Chinese medicine pays attention to. "Su Wen" has a cloud: "Yin gives birth to five flavors; Five flavors of yin and five houses are injured. " The harmony and intake of the five flavors of "sour", "sweet", "bitter", "pungent" and "salty" can keep people healthy. In the words of ordinary people, you should eat some of all flavors.
The theory of traditional Chinese medicine tells us: "Sour tonics liver, bitter tonics heart, sweet tonics spleen, spicy tonics lung and salty tonics kidney". But our reality is that three meals are always one bite at a time and we never change our mind. Everyone thinks jealousy can soften blood vessels. Remember, vinegar cannot soften blood vessels. It feeds on the liver and the blood produced by the liver. Only when the blood is good can the blood vessels soften.
Are we Shanxi people jealous? China is one of the countries with the biggest liver diseases in the world, and Shanxi is one of the provinces with the biggest liver diseases in China. Why? Acid nourishes the liver, but "too much acid will hurt the liver." What is balance? You must balance it. You don't like this. If you eat three meals, you have a problem.
Suffering nourishes the soul. Do you think that Chinese herbs such as Coptidis Rhizoma and Calculus Bovis are bitter? What food can we have to reduce the fire? Bitter gourd is exciting! But now it has been passed around, bitter gourd has become a good medicine for treating diabetes, and I don't know who eats bitter gourd to eat diabetes ... sweet to tonify the spleen, too sweet to hurt the spleen. Do you think there are children who drink boiled water now? Besides drinks, it was drinks, so I drank my spleen. Spleen and stomach are incompatible, either fat or thin. So some newspapers also reported that one out of every three fat people in the world comes from China. Isn't this coming out? It's all against the laws of nature, born for the mouth ... Have you found that there are more and more chubby piers on the street, getting fatter and fatter! What a hidden danger to children's health! In addition to obesity, too sweet can also cause cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, hypertension, kidney disease and so on. If left unchecked, these children will grow into the backbone of society in 20 or 30 years. What kind of health pressure will our country and nation face?
Spicy nourishes the lungs, but too spicy hurts the lungs. "It seems a bit unfair to say that about Chili. Chili is indeed a controversial food. It depends on how, where and how much we eat. This goes back to our old topic, "balance", and nothing can be "excessive"! Eating five colors and flavors in daily diet is called balanced nutrition.
The theory of "homology of medicine and food" holds that the five flavors of acid, sweet, bitter, pungent and salty have their own functions, which support the five internal organs and produce various effects and changes on the human internal organs.
Based on the five internal organs of people, this is the health preservation of traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to the unity of heaven and earth, and should let nature take its course. For the sake of health, we should not go against the laws of nature in our life.