Chinese medicine believes that even if food is used to regulate various functions of the body, people can get health or prevent diseases. Under this definition, it is more appropriate to take food as health preservation. Dietotherapy is food after all, and its therapeutic effect is often limited. If you have an acute disease, the risk of diet therapy is relatively high. Health care should consider food supplement, and treatment should consider drug attack. Under the guidance of Chinese medicine theory, it uses the characteristics of food to regulate the body function, so as to obtain health or prevent diseases.
Dietotherapy is a long-term health-preserving behavior. It is generally believed that food is an edible substance that provides various nutrients for human growth and healthy survival. In fact, Chinese medicine has long recognized that food can not only provide nutrition, but also cure diseases.
History of dietotherapy:
With the appearance and use of pottery, food processing is not limited to "burning meat" and "burning grain on stone". Cooking methods are increasingly diversified, and food tastes more delicious. During this period, wine also appeared. It was recorded in Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals that "Yi Di made wine", but at first it was limited to the wine naturally fermented by grain crops and fruits, and later there were edible wine and medicinal liquor with compound ingredients.
Neijing during the Warring States Period was the first monograph on medical theory in China. Su Wen and Zheng Wuchang argued: "Great poison cures diseases, and six out of ten are excluded; Often poison cures diseases, nine times out of ten; Small poison cures all diseases, ten in and eight out; Nontoxic treatment, nine times out of ten. Food, meat, vegetables and fruits are exhausted, and if you are not used to it, you will be hurt. "The book spoke highly of the role of dietotherapy, which is also a great progress in dietotherapy theory.