Five livestock: pigs, cows, sheep, chickens and dogs. That is to say, within the framework of the five elements theory of TCM, five animals have a corresponding relationship with five flavors and five internal organs, and five animals also have their own nutrients, which guides the dietary nutrition principles of TCM.
Five vegetables: sunflower, leek, epimedium and onion. Five dishes are representatives of vegetables listed from the perspective of sex and taste, generally referring to various vegetables.
Extended data:
Huangdi Neijing is a comprehensive medical work, which establishes the theories of Yin and Yang, five elements, pulse condition, Tibetan image, meridians, etiology, pathogenesis, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, health preservation and luck.
Discussing medicine with a holistic view presents a "holistic medical model" of nature, biology, psychology and society. Its basic material comes from the long-term observation of life phenomena in ancient China, a lot of clinical practice and simple anatomical knowledge.
Huangdi Neijing laid the foundation of human physiology, pathology, diagnosis and treatment. It is a medical work with great influence in China and is called the medical ancestor.
Among the dietary principles advocated in Neijing, "five fruits are helpful". Five fruits refer to dates, plums, apricots, chestnuts, peaches, sweet dates, sour plums, salty chestnuts, bitter apricots and sweet peaches, which enter and help the five internal organs. Modern five fruits generally refer to fresh fruits, dried fruits and nuts.
Although the contents of starch and protein in fruits are not as good as those in cereals and beans, they are rich in dextrin, monosaccharide and organic acids such as citric acid and malic acid, which are of great benefit to human health.
The four characteristics of five poultry meat are classified according to the attributes of yin and yang and five elements and the efficacy of five flavors. We can know that beef is warm, chicken is slightly warm, dog meat is warm, mutton is hot and pork is slightly cold.
Taking the five flavors of food as the intermediary and the five behaviors of mother and son as the second order, it can be judged that dog meat can nourish liver and heart, mutton can nourish spleen, beef can nourish spleen and lung, chicken can nourish lung and kidney, and pork can nourish liver.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-Huangdi Neijing