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What are the classifications of food according to nourishing meridians?
Traditional Chinese medicine also divides food into different types according to its nourishing function, which mainly includes the following four categories: qi-invigorating food.

Rice, millet, yellow rice, glutinous rice, barley, wheat, naked oats, soybeans, lentils, peas, potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, carrots, mushrooms, chicken, beef, rabbit meat, herring, silver carp and so on.

Blood-enriching food: carrot, longan, litchi, mulberry, blood tofu, animal liver, animal meat, sea cucumber, flat fish, etc.

Aphrodisiac food

Leek, sword bean, cowpea, walnut kernel, mutton, dog meat, venison, animal kidney, pigeon eggs, eel, shrimp, mussel, etc.

Ziyin food

Chinese cabbage, pear, grape, mulberry, medlar, black sesame, tremella, auricularia, lily, milk, pork, turtle, croaker, squid, etc.

To sum up, the theory of food meridian tropism in TCM theory is an important theoretical basis of Chinese traditional diet. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the health care and conditioning functions of food and drink are by no means exclusive to exotic foods, nor are they just the amount of "nutrients". Instead, according to the symptoms, disease location, disease nature, age, sex, physique type, season and geographical factors of patients, combined with the theory of food taste and tropism, the suitability and taboo of choosing food are analyzed. This colorful and dialectical scientific concept of dietary taboo is not found in modern nutrition and western medicine theory, and is of great value to Chinese medicine.