Chinese medicine diet therapy

Author: Ye Jin
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Publish Date: 2000-01-01
Features: The theoretical core of TCM dietary therapy is based on the principle of "differentiation and treatment," combining the content of zang-xiang (organ manifestation), meridians, diagnostic methods, and treatment principles to select appropriate foods for prevention and treatment. Through differentiation, a comprehensive understanding of the patient's condition is achieved, which is then combined with the influence of seasonal climate, geographical environment, and lifestyle. Adhering to treatment principles such as reinforcing the healthy and expelling the pathogenic, tonifying deficiency and draining excess, applying heat to cold and cold to heat, and establishing treatment methods such as sweating, vomiting, purging, harmonizing, warming, sedating, resolving, and tonifying, the corresponding formulas are formulated based on the properties of foods—cold, hot, warm, and cool—as well as their flavors—pungent, sweet, sour, bitter, and salty. This is a book that introduces the treatment and prevention of diseases through food, collecting successful experiences and prescriptions from renowned classical works.