Diet and health preservation is a health preservation method that adjusts diet, pays attention to dietary avoidances, and consumes food reasonably in accordance with the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, so as to improve health and prolong life.
Diet is the source of nutrients for the body, and it is an indispensable condition for maintaining the growth and development of the human body, completing various physiological functions, and ensuring the survival of life. "Hanshu Li Shiqi Biography" said: "The people take food as the sky", which is what it means. The ancients have long recognized the important relationship between diet and life. They have accumulated rich knowledge and valuable experience in long-term practice, and have gradually formed a set of dietary and health preservation theories with Chinese national characteristics, which have played a huge role in ensuring people's health.
The purpose of diet and health preservation is to supplement nutrition reasonably and moderately, to nourish the essence and qi, and to correct the bias of yin and yang in the viscera through dietary adjustment, so as to improve the health of the body, anti-aging and prolong life. Since diet is necessary for people, and improper diet is most likely to affect health, food nourishment is an important part of TCM health preservation.
Viscera, muscles and bones, qi and blood, thus conducive to health and longevity. "Su Wen: The Generation of the Five Organs" points out: "If you eat too much salt, your veins will condense and change color;If you eat more bitterness, you will have a plucked skin and hairIf you eat too much, you will be anxious and your claws will wither;If you eat more acid, the meat will be *** and the lips will be exposedIf you eat too much sweetness, your bones will ache and fall, and the five flavors will also hurt." From the perspective that eating too much taste is harmful to health, the importance of harmonizing the five flavors is emphasized.
Dietary adjustment should also be arranged separately according to the differences in age, physique, personality, habits, etc., and cannot be generalized. For example, people with high stomach acid should eat more alkaline foodsPeople with hypoacidity should choose acidic foods appropriately to ensure that the acidity of the food is moderate. People who are fat have phlegm and dampness, so the diet should be light, and fat and greasy should not eat morePeople with thin bodies have a lot of yin deficiency and internal heat, so they should eat more sweet and moist foods in their diet, and spicy and dry products should not eat more.