The homology of medicine and food in China has a long history. It is recorded in Huangdi Neijing Tai Su that "food is to satisfy hunger and medicine is to cure disease". Most of China's first pharmaceutical monograph, Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing, is daily food, and many of them are medicines. There is no absolute dividing line between them, and their nature and taste are peaceful. Medicinal and edible homologous substances are essentially edible Chinese herbal medicines. Because of the dual-purpose function of medicine and food, the general food intake is stronger than that of medicine, and most of them are tonics, which have the functions of conditioning, rehabilitation and health care. They have been used in medical care in the form of dietotherapy, food supplement and medicated diet.

Ancient medical scientists applied the theory of "four natures and five flavors" of traditional Chinese medicine to food, and thought that every food also had "four natures and five flavors". When using, we should also follow the principle of "due to people, time and place" and pay attention to the incompatibility of food and medicine.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that obesity is related to many factors, such as congenital constitution, improper diet, restlessness, emotional disorder and so on. In treatment, on the basis of syndrome differentiation and treatment, the principle of tonifying deficiency and purging excess is adopted, and the deficiency of both qi and blood and yin and yang of viscera is adjusted, combined with the methods of promoting qi circulation and resolving phlegm, promoting diuresis and dredging fu-organs, removing blood stasis and dredging collaterals for comprehensive treatment. In daily life, we can choose traditional Chinese medicine with the same origin of medicine and food for prevention and treatment.

First of all, Khumbu

Salty and cold in nature, classified as liver, stomach and kidney meridians.

Efficacy: softening and resolving hard mass, resolving phlegm and promoting diuresis.

"Take a rest and serve thin people for a long time." -"Dietotherapy Materia Medica"

Contains laminin, which is a polysaccharide and has the function of eliminating blood lipid. It contains many minerals and trace elements.

It can reduce the deposition of animal fat on the heart, blood vessels and intestinal wall.

Second, seaweed.

Bitter, salty and cold in nature, classified as liver, stomach and kidney meridians.

Efficacy: expectorant, soft and firm, diuretic.

"The thin man is not convinced." -"Dietotherapy Materia Medica"

It has the function of reducing blood fat. The mixture of alginic acid and equimolecular amphetamine contained in seaweed is an appetite suppressant, which can reduce obesity.

Third, adzuki bean

Sweet and flat, it enters the spleen, heart and small intestine.

Efficacy: diuresis, detumescence and detoxification.

"Eat thin people for a long time." -"Dietotherapy Materia Medica"

"Sex is fluid, and it is boring to eat for a long time." —— Tao Hongjing

Contains alkaloids, which can accelerate gastrointestinal peristalsis, promote urination and eliminate edema. It is especially effective for obese patients with edema.

Fourth, the lotus leaf

Sweet and astringent in nature, entering the spleen meridian.

Efficacy: clearing heat and relieving summer heat, eliminating dampness, promoting hair growth and clearing yang.

"Lotus leaf suits it and makes people thin." -Compendium of Materia Medica

You can use fresh lotus leaves to cook porridge, or you can use decoction instead of tea. It is especially suitable for losing weight in summer, or treating heat caused by spleen deficiency and dampness resistance and stomach heat and dampness resistance in obese patients.

Nelumbine can effectively decompose body fat and excrete it. Lotus leaf alkaloids can densely cover the human intestinal wall, forming a layer of fat isolation film to prevent fat absorption and accumulation.

Five, wax gourd

Sweet and light, cold in nature.

Efficacy: diuretic, expectorant, heat-clearing and detoxification.

"Cooking food can refine the five internal organs. Don't eat if you want to be fat. People who want to be thin and light eat very healthy people. " -"Dietotherapy Materia Medica"

Contains malonic acid, which can effectively inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat. The dietary fiber content in wax gourd is high, which can reduce cholesterol and prevent atherosclerosis.

Six, hawthorn

It tastes sour and sweet, slightly warm, and enters the spleen, stomach and liver meridians.

Efficacy: eliminate accumulation, promote qi circulation and remove blood stasis.

"Diet, eliminate meat accumulation." -Compendium of Materia Medica

Hawthorn can quickly decompose and consume fat and promote the digestion of fatty foods in the body.

Author: White, chief physician, Department of Endocrinology, Guang 'anmen Hospital, Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Expert Visit Table of "Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome" in Endocrinology Department

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1. "Special clinic" needs to be marked with "special number";

2 "special clinic" by attending and above titles doctors take turns visiting.