Vegetarian food is not only rich in vitamins and inorganic salts, but also can dredge the stomach and promote digestion. Cellulose in vegetarian food swells when it meets water, forming a dense network, which can absorb inorganic salts and organic acids in the intestinal cavity and further absorb water, thus regulating the function of the intestinal tract. Therefore, eating more foods containing cellulose, such as beans, corn and celery, Chinese cabbage and Chinese cabbage, can prevent the occurrence of intestinal cancer.
The best combination of meat and vegetables is more than twice or more than that of meat and vegetables. Modern nutritionists believe that fresh fruit, dried fruit, berries and other foods have high biological activity and are good foods to prolong life.
The balance between sex and taste
Food is the best medicine, and it has always been emphasized that "medicine and food are homologous" and "medicine is not as good as medicine".
Food has four natures and five flavors, just like traditional Chinese medicine. Four natures are cold, hot, warm and cool, and five flavors are sour, bitter, sweet, pungent and salty. Foods with different properties can have therapeutic effects similar to those of traditional Chinese medicine in different degrees, such as
Pear is sweet in taste and cool in nature, which is a good product for clearing spleen and stomach, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, nourishing yin and moistening dryness.
● Watermelon is cold and sweet, which can relieve summer heat and quench thirst.
● Mung beans are cold and non-toxic, which can clear away heat and detoxify, promote fluid production and quench thirst.
● Jujube is warm and sweet. It is a common medicine for invigorating spleen and stomach, nourishing blood and calming nerves, and it is also a good fruit that is often eaten.
Mutton is sweet, warm and hot, which can tonify deficiency and dispel cold, and has the same effect as ginseng.
● Garlic is warm and pungent. It is a common condiment, but it has a good detoxification and sterilization effect and can treat diarrhea and cough. It is considered as a natural broad-spectrum antibiotic.
● Ginger is mild and pungent, and has the effects of sweating, relieving exterior syndrome, warming lung, relieving cough and stopping vomiting.
Therefore, food, like Chinese medicine, must be combined in a balanced way to ensure the balance of qi in the five internal organs. Excessive five flavors lead to imbalance of five internal organs.
Cold-heat balance
Eating warm food or cold food in daily diet will have an impact on human physique and personality.
Common warm foods are jujube, distiller's yeast, black beans, peppers, oranges, plums, peaches, mutton, shrimp, etc., which have the functions of supplementing fatigue, dispelling cold, benefiting qi and blood, and warming the waist and knees.
Common cold foods are millet, mung bean, mushroom, Chinese cabbage, tomato, wax gourd, watermelon, lotus root, horseshoe, pear and crab. It has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, nourishing yin and cooling blood. (Chapter M, K, K to @