Where does "Chinese nutrition" come from!

People must consume food to maintain their physical needs. As early as in ancient times, people in the search for food, constantly tasting, and gradually distinguish between drugs and food, will have a therapeutic effect of plants and animals are attributed to drugs, can satiate the stomach and hunger, beneficial to the body of plants and animals are attributed to food, so in the history of medicine, there is a "medicine (medicine) and food are the same source of the" argument. Drilling wood for fire from the ancient people to drink blood of raw food into cooked food, for human health to create the conditions, which is a big step forward. Shang Dynasty, according to legend, Yi Yin is proficient in cooking, at the same time good at preparing a variety of soup cure, raw materials in the "Yang Park of ginger, cinnamon," ginger and cinnamon that is the seasoning, but also sweating to relieve the table, declared Yang Qi, warm stomach to stop vomiting of the best products. At this time, traditional Chinese nutrition has taken shape. To the Zhou Dynasty, according to the "Zhou Rites - Heavenly Officials", the food doctor is ranked in the disease doctor, ulcer doctor, veterinarian first, it can be seen at that time the court attached great importance to the dietary health and treatment issues. This marks the formation of a system of traditional Chinese nutrition, more than 2,000 years earlier than the Western dietitians.

Practical development

Nutritional practice and representative writings with the development of medicine

Traditional nutrition in the prevention, health care, treatment has accumulated a large number of practical experience in food nutrition, food therapy is more prominent, and most of these are recorded in the medical books and materia medica writings. Spring and Autumn and Warring States period appeared one of China's earliest surviving important medical books - Huangdi Neijing, which not only lays the theoretical foundation of Chinese medicine, but also lays the theoretical foundation of traditional Chinese nutrition, and puts forward the view of a comprehensive diet. For example, "Suwen - dirty gas method of time theory" cloud: "five grains for raising, five fruits to help, five animals for the benefit of the five dishes for the full, the smell of the combined service, in order to replenish the essence and benefit the gas." This preparation of meals to meet the needs of human fitness. This is probably the earliest record of a comprehensive diet in the world.

"Shennong Ben Cao Jing" was written before the Eastern Han Dynasty, is China's earliest surviving monograph on herbs *** contains 365 kinds of drugs. The book also recorded a number of medicinal value of food, such as Coix Seed, caraway (sesame), Gorgon fruit, yam, longan, dry ginger, walnut kernel, Shu Pepper and so on. East Han Dynasty physician Zhang Zhongjing in the "Typhoid Fever", "The Golden Chamber" in the choice of many food treatment, such as for the heart and spirit of the loss of nourishment, mental depression, "Lily chicken yellow soup", is a typical representative. Ge Hong in the Jin Dynasty in his book "after the elbow to prepare the emergency formula", the first recorded seaweed for gall disease (goiter), with pig pancreas to cure thirst disease (i.e. diabetes). In the Tang Dynasty, Monk Monk wrote the first monograph on food herbs ("Food Herbs"),*** divided into three volumes, containing 241 kinds of edible herbs, each food name contains several prescriptions, which are reasonably formulated and easy to use. Tang Dynasty physician Sun Simiao in the "Thousand Gold Formula" Volume 26 food treatment chapter, pointed out that "food can expel evil and safe internal organs, pleasing God, refreshing Zhi, in order to capitalize on the blood and gas. If you can use food to calm the disease, release the feelings of the disease, can be said to be a good job. The doctor, when the need to understand the source of the disease, know the offense, to food treatment. If the disease is not cured by food, then medicine is ordered." The book discusses the use of liver to cure night blindness; seaweed, kombu treatment of gall tumors; grain skin prevention and treatment of foot fungus and so on. Drinking food is just about to be" is the Yuan dynasty drinking food doctor Hu Si Hui, rich and comprehensive. The book **** three volumes, volume I overview of the various circumstances taboos, as well as the collection of rare and exotic food. Volume II introduces "all kinds of soup and decoction" and "food for all diseases". Volume III is a food compendium with illustrations. The book also recorded for the first time with the distillation process of medicinal wine. The Ming Dynasty physician Li Shizhen diligently seek ancient teachings, the collection of various schools of thought, *** collection of 1892 kinds of herbs, the book "Compendium of Materia Medica". The Compendium of Materia Medica is not only a collection of herbs before the Ming Dynasty, but also a summary of food herbs. The food accounted for more than one-third of the total number of herbs in the book, were made a comprehensive review also added a number of previously unrecorded or described the food is not detailed. In addition, also recorded a large number of therapeutic prescriptions. The Qing Dynasty Zhang Xingyun's "adjusting the disease diet", Wang Mengying's "with the rest of the house diet spectrum" also has its own characteristics.

In short, the traditional Chinese nutrition in the ancient times and medicine at the same time germination and occurrence, to the Shangzhou gradually into a prototype, set up a "food doctor" specializing in this matter, to the Qin, Han, Tang and Song gradually laid the foundation for the development of the Yuan, Ming and Qing enrichment, the formation of a more systematic doctrine, and has accumulated a wealth of practical and clinical experience, it is worthwhile for future generations to dig, The first time I saw this is when I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night.