Chinese Diet Therapy: Ancient Wisdom on the Table

Welcome to the "Wonderful Institute of Chinese Medicine", we will not talk about high-tech today, but take you through time and space, into the kitchen of the ancients, to see how they used food to food to cure diseases and maintain health.
    In the wisdom of our ancestors, food is not only a thing to fill the stomach, but also contains the mystery of regulating the body
1. Five colors into the five organs: food is the most natural medicine
    In TCM, food and our bodies are connected. The ancients believed that different colors of food can affect different viscera, which is the theory of "five colors into five viscera".
    Red into the heart [group voice]: Red dates, wolfberries, and red beans help to nourish the blood and nourish the heart. It's the favorite of the late-night party; Yellow into the spleen : pumpkin, millet, yam strengthen the spleen and stomach, no wonder the older generation always say "millet porridge nourishes the stomach"; Green into the liver : spinach, celery, mung beans help to soothe the liver and relieve depression, and if you are in a bad mood, you can make mung bean soup, which may relieve the heart; White into the lungs : white fungus, lily, lotus root moisten the lungs and relieve cough, dry throat in autumn and winter, come to a bowl of pear soup, Ba Shi is very comfortable; Black into the kidneys : Black sesame, black beans, kelp tonify the kidneys and strengthen the body, no wonder some people say that black beans stewed pig's trotters, hair does not turn white
 2. Medicine and food homology: natural prescriptions in the kitchen
    Sometimes some small combinations in life are simply natural cures. Got a cold? Try ginger brown sugar water, ginger can sweat and relieve the surface, brown sugar can replenish qi and invigorate blood; Insomnia and dreams? Eat some longan and lotus seeds to calm your mind and help you get a good night's sleep; Dyspepsia? Come to a bowl of hawthorn tangerine peel water, strengthen the stomach and eliminate food, and become a "little gastrointestinal assistant" in seconds.
    In fact, the meals we eat every day can be a way of health preservation, and the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing" says that "the upper healing is not sick". Real health management is often not about waiting for the disease to come, but about keeping the body balanced through daily dietary adjustments
    So can modern technology make traditional wisdom more scientific? The answer is obvious, the progress of modern science has also given us a deeper understanding of dietary therapy, for example, garlic really has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects, and the folk "eat some garlic when you have a cold"; Green tea is rich in antioxidants, which help reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. The wisdom of the ancients tells us that food is not only a source of energy, but also a guardian of health. Today's dining table carries thousands of years of health philosophy, and perhaps, the next time you pick up a bowl of hot millet porridge, you can remember that this is not only a meal, but also a warm healing.
     This Week's Task: Design a set of "Therapeutic Emperor Meals" for yourself, take a picture of your creative recipe @ us, and remember that the best hospital is the kitchen, and the best medicine is in the vegetable field! The next issue will take you to unlock acupuncture and cupping, comparable to SPA, remember to squat, we will see you in the next issue