Drugs can cure diseases, take effect quickly, and focus on treating diseases; Medicinal diet is mostly used for health preservation and disease prevention, with slow effect and emphasis on maintenance and prevention. Medicinal diet plays an important role in health care, health preservation and rehabilitation, but it cannot replace drug treatment. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages, and appropriate methods should be selected according to specific people and conditions, and should not be abused.
Eat for evidence:
Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes syndrome differentiation and treatment, and the application of medicated diet should also be based on syndrome differentiation and treatment. For example, patients with blood deficiency often choose jujube, peanuts and other blood-enriching foods, while patients with yin deficiency often choose medlar, lily, Ophiopogon japonicus and so on. Only by using materials according to evidence can the health care function of medicated diet be brought into play.
2. It changes with time:
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that people correspond to the sun and the moon, and the movement of qi and blood in human viscera is closely related to the climate change in nature. "Use cold to stay away from cold, use heat to stay away from heat", that is to say, use cold medicine to avoid cold winter and use warm medicine to avoid hot summer. This view also applies to medicated diet.
3. Eat for people:
People's physique and age are different, and there should be differences when using medicated diet. Children's physique is delicate, raw materials should not be cold and hot, old people's liver and kidney are insufficient, and drugs should not be warm and dry. Pregnant women are afraid of fetal gas and should not use products that promote blood circulation smoothly. These are all medical diets that should be paid attention to.
4. It varies from place to place:
There are certain differences in climatic conditions and living habits in different regions, and human physiological activities and pathological changes are also different. Some are located in wet places, and their diets are warm, dry and spicy, while others are located in cold places, and their diets are hot and greasy, while the diet in Guangdong in the south is cool and sweet, so is the selection of medicinal foods.
The incompatibility between medicine and food is the experience of the ancients, which is followed by later generations.
Although some of them have not been scientifically proved, it is advisable to use traditional sayings until a reliable conclusion is reached.
Mainly includes:
Pork ebony, Platycodon grandiflorum, Coptidis Rhizoma, Picrorhiza Rhizoma, Lilium and Atractylodis Rhizoma;
Pig blood should avoid Rehmannia glutinosa, Polygonum Multiflori Radix and honey;
Mutton should avoid Pinellia ternata and Acorus calamus, and avoid copper and cinnabar;
Dog meat avoids Phytolacca acinosa and almonds;
Carassius auratus avoids magnolia officinalis and Ophiopogon japonicus;
Garlic should avoid rehmannia root and Polygonum multiflorum Thunb.
Radish avoids rehmannia glutinosa and Polygonum multiflorum Thunb.
Avoid poria cocos and vinegar.
There are also some taboos in the compatibility of food and food. Although the reason is not sufficient, it seems appropriate to be cautious in the application of medicated diet and take it as an important reference.
These taboos are:
Pork should avoid buckwheat, pigeon meat, crucian carp and soybeans;
Mutton is jealous of vinegar; Dog meat avoids garlic;
Crucian carp avoid mustard and pig liver;
Pig blood avoids soybeans;
Pig liver should avoid buckwheat, bean paste, carp sausage and fish;
Carp avoid dog meat;
Turtle meat should avoid amaranth, wine and fruit;
Eels avoid dog meat and blood;
Sparrow meat avoids pig liver;
Duck eggs avoid mulberries and plums;
Chicken avoid mustard, glutinous rice and plums;
Turtle meat should avoid pork, rabbit, duck, amaranth and eggs.
Medicinal diet is generally classified according to the nature of raw materials and production methods, which can be roughly divided into the following categories.
Rice flour: steamed bread, noodles, rice, dumplings, steamed buns, wonton stew and other diets made of rice and flour.
2. Dishes: Meat dishes can be made into cold dishes, steamed dishes, stews, stir-fry, stir-fry and braised dishes.
3. porridge food: a semi-liquid diet with rice, wheat and beans as the basic raw materials, and other ingredients such as medlar, hawthorn and lily.
4. Pastry: This medicated diet is made according to the method of making cakes, with various patterns. Such as Fuling cake, chestnut paste and walnut cake.
5. Soups: thick soups made of meat, eggs, milk, seafood and other raw materials, boiled, stewed and praised.
6. Beverage: A liquid made by soaking, squeezing, decocting or distilling drugs and food for drinking. Such as hawthorn juice, autumn pear juice, radish juice and so on.
7. Tea: a liquid made by directly brewing drugs, such as chrysanthemum tea, cassia seed tea, hawthorn tea, etc.
8. Candied fruit: It is made from dried and fresh fruits or peels of plants, boiled with liquid medicine, and added with appropriate amount of honey or sugar.