China traditional Chinese medicine has a theory of "homology of medicine and food" (also called "homology of medicine and food") since ancient times.
Tai Su in Huangdi's Internal Classic in the Tang Dynasty wrote: "Eating on an empty stomach is food, and patients take medicine", which embodies the idea of "medicine and food are homologous".
With the accumulation of experience, medicine and food began to differentiate. After using fire, people began to eat cooked food, and cooking technology gradually developed. At the same time that food and medicine began to differentiate, dietotherapy and medicine also gradually differentiated.
Neijing has excellent dietotherapy theory, such as "treating diseases with great poison, eliminating six from ten diseases;" Often poison cures diseases, nine times out of ten; Small poison cures all diseases, ten in and eight out; Non-toxic treatment, nine times out of ten; Whole grains, vegetarian fruits and vegetables, eat nutritious food, not too much, hurt its meaning, "this can be called the earliest principle of dietotherapy."
The theory of "homology of medicine and food" holds that many foods are both food and medicine, and food and medicine can also prevent and treat diseases. In ancient primitive society, people found the taste and efficacy of various foods and drugs in the process of searching for food, and realized that many foods can be used as medicine and many drugs can also be eaten. It is difficult to distinguish the two strictly.
This is the basis of the theory of "homology of medicine and food" and the basis of dietotherapy.
Chinese medicine also has a concept of Chinese medicine: all animals and plants, minerals and so on. It also belongs to the category of traditional Chinese medicine, and traditional Chinese medicine is a very big drug concept. Traditional Chinese medicine can be eaten, but the dosage is different, that is to say, the method: the toxic effect is small, but the toxic effect is small.
Therefore, strictly speaking, in Chinese medicine, there is no difference between medicine and food, and it is relative: medicine is also food, and food is also medicine; The side effects of food are small, but those of drugs are large. This is another meaning of "homology of medicine and food".
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In the Notice on Further Standardizing the Management of Raw Materials for Health Foods issued by the Ministry of Health, specific provisions have been made on articles with the same origin of medicine and food, articles that can be used for health foods, and prohibited articles for health foods. The list of three items is:
1, a list of items that are both food and medicine.
Clove, star anise, kidney bean, ginseng, fennel, thistle, yam, hawthorn, purslane, Zaocys, dark plum, papaya, hemp seed, flower generation, Polygonatum odoratum, licorice, angelica dahurica, ginkgo, white lentil, white lentil flower, longan, cassia seed, lily and licorice.
Semen Phaseoli, Colla Corii Asini, Endothelium Corneum Gigeriae Galli, Fructus Hordei Germinatus, Thallus Laminariae, Fructus Jujubae, Fructus Siraitiae Grosvenorii, Semen Pruni, Flos Lonicerae, Fructus Canarii Albi, Herba Houttuyniae, Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens, Fructus Aurantii, Fructus Lycii, Fructus Gardeniae, Fructus Amomi, Boat-fruited Sterculia, Poria, Fructus Citri and Herba Elsholtzia.
Lophatherum gracile, fermented soybean, chrysanthemum, chicory, yellow mustard seed, Polygonatum sibiricum, perilla frutescens, kudzuvine root, black sesame, black pepper, Sophora japonica, dandelion, honey, torreya grandis, Ziziphus jujuba seed, fresh cogongrass rhizome, fresh reed rhizome, Agkistrodon halys, dried tangerine peel, mint, coix seed, etc.
2. List of items that can be used for health food
Ginseng Radix, Ginseng Folium, Ginseng Fruit, Ginseng Radix, Notoginseng Radix, Rhizoma Smilacis Glabrae, Cirsium japonicum, Ligustrum lucidum, Cornus officinalis, Radix Cyathulae, Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae, Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum, Cortex Acanthopanacis, Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis, Cimicifuga Rhizoma, Radix Asparagi, Rhizoma Gastrodiae, Radix Pseudostellariae, Radix Morindae Officinalis, and Radix Aucklandiae.
Radix Rehmanniae, Polygoni Multiflori Radix, Rhizoma Bletillae, Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Fructus Amomi Rotundus, Concha Haliotidis (proof of use is required), Cortex Lycii, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Caulis Bambusae, Flos Carthami, Radix Rhodiolae, Radix Panacis Quinquefolii, Fructus Evodiae, Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae, Cortex Eucommiae, Semen Astragali Complanati, Cortex Moutan, Aloe, Rhizoma Atractylodis, Fructus Psoraleae,
Radix et Rhizoma Rhei preparata, Radix Polygoni Multiflori preparata, Radix Acanthopanacis Senticosi, Fructus Rosae Davuricae, Herba Lycopi, Alismatis Rhizoma, Flos Rosae Rugosae, Rhizoma Anemarrhenae, Apocynum venetum, Folium Ilicis Kudingcha, Semen Fagopyri Esculenti, Fructus Rosae Laevigatae, Magnolia Officinalis, magnolia officinalis flower, Curcuma rhizome, Fructus Aurantii, Fructus Aurantii Immaturus, Semen Platycladi, Pearl, Gynostemma pentaphyllum and Fenugreek.
Caulis Polygoni Multiflori, Rhizoma Cyperi, Rhizoma Drynariae, Radix Codonopsis, Cortex Mori, Ramulus Mori, Bulbus Fritillariae Thunbergii, Herba Leonuri, Herba Centellae, Herba Epimedii, Semen Cuscutae, Flos Chrysanthemi Indici, Folium Ginkgo, Radix Astragali, Bulbus Fritillariae Hubei, Folium Sennae, Gecko, Vaccinium Vaccinium, Fructus Sophorae, Pollen Typhae, Fructus Tribuli, Propolis, Fructus Ziziphi and Chinese ink.
3. List of prohibited items of health food
Dysosma versicolor, Lysimachia christinae, Euphorbia Euphorbia, Aristolochia, Scolopendra, Radix Aconiti, Radix Stephaniae Tetrandrae, Mulberry Leaves, Semen Strychni, Polygoni Multiflori Radix, Buckwheat, Croton Croton, Mercury, Catharanthus roseus, Radix Kansui, Rhizoma Arisaematis, Rhizoma Pinelliae, Rhizoma Typhonii, Stellera Stellata, Caulis Akebiae, Nongjili and Rhizoma Anemarrhenae.
Pig shit beans Amorphophallus Shā rotto Katakuri, Lijiang, Euphorbia. , Kunming begonia, puffer fish, Boneflower, Derris, Digitalis, Datura flower, Petunia, Arsenic (white arsenic, red arsenic), Kusnezoff monkshood.
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