Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to syndrome differentiation and treatment in the process of treating diseases. In fact, tonic medicated diet should also be based on one's own physique. Traditional Chinese medicine can be divided into cold, cool, warm and hot, and it should be scientifically selected according to different people's physique or illness. Generally speaking, Chinese herbs for warm diet, such as onion, ginger, red dates, walnuts, mutton, fennel, etc., have the functions of warming the interior, dispelling cold and helping yang, and are suitable for people with yin deficiency or patients with cold syndrome and yin syndrome, mainly manifested as chills, fatigue, easy sweating, poor memory, backache and knee weakness, stomach cold, loose stool and poor sexual function. Cool dietotherapy traditional Chinese medicine, such as mung bean, lotus root, watermelon, pear, purslane, water chestnut, chrysanthemum, etc. It has the effects of clearing away heat and purging fire, cooling blood and detoxicating, and is suitable for people with yang deficiency constitution or patients with heat syndrome and yang syndrome characterized by fear of heat, irritability, excessive sweating, thirst, dry throat and tongue, and constipation.
Optimization of medicinal materials
Scientific cooking
When buying medicinal materials, you must be fresh and high quality. Anything that goes bad or moldy can't be eaten. Chinese herbal medicines and foods used in medicated diet should be selected first, so as to be clean, free from impurities, foreign bodies, dust and mildew, and pay attention to their pure color and taste, beautiful appearance and good quality. In order to ensure the curative effect of medicated diet, it is necessary to process medicinal materials and food. Some need to be sliced, shredded, diced or cut into sections, some need to be crushed into fine powder, and some need to be processed according to the requirements of traditional Chinese medicine processing to reduce its toxicity or side effects. Good medicated diet must pay attention to cooking skills. Generally, traditional Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine without bad smell can be cooked with food. If there are many drugs or have obvious unpleasant smell, the drugs can be wrapped in gauze and cooked with food, and the drug will enter the food or soup, and the residue should be removed when taking. You can also decoct the traditional Chinese medicine first, filter the juice to remove the residue, and then add the juice in the cooking process of food to reduce the destruction of nutrition and effective components.
Medicinal diet is good, but enough is enough.
Some people think that Chinese medicine has little or no toxicity. It is incorrect and dangerous to buy a handful of fennel and fry it, cook porridge with a handful of medlar and simmer soup with a few ginseng. Chinese medicine is very particular about dosage, and a large amount is directly related to the curative effect. Regardless of the dosage, blind use will have serious consequences. It is not uncommon for someone to use 20 grams of ginseng to boil soup at a time, which leads to cerebral hemorrhage after taking it. "Moderate diet" is an important principle of TCM health care, and medicinal diet should also be moderate and temperate. It is not advisable to overeat in the short term, and you should not rush for success. Should be based on their own situation, often eat a small amount, perseverance, over time will be effective. It is worth noting that although medicated diet has many benefits, its pertinence and therapeutic effect are far less than that of drugs. The combination of the two can complement each other and achieve better results.
The correspondence between man and the universe
Do what is appropriate for the occasion
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that man corresponds to nature and the treatment of diseases should be tailored to three factors. Similarly, medicinal diet should be tailored to the time, that is, four times and five times. Everything recovers in spring, and the five internal organs belong to the liver, which is suitable for ascending and replenishing; Summer is divided into early summer and long summer. The weather is hot in early summer, and the five internal organs belong to the heart, which is suitable for clearing and replenishing. Long summer, hot weather, five internal organs belong to the spleen, suitable for light tonic. The weather is cool in autumn, and the five internal organs belong to the lungs, which is suitable for flat supplement; The temperature in winter is cold, and the five internal organs belong to the kidney, so it should be warm. If you violate this natural law, it will also affect the tonic effect.
The main raw material of medicated diet is traditional Chinese medicine. Since it is medicine, it should be different from ordinary diet. Pay attention to the nature and taste of traditional Chinese medicine, the taboo of medicinal diet and the choice of materials.