A classic saying is that food is the best medicine for human treatment, and dietotherapy is to use food instead of medicine to treat diseases, restore cell function and restore human health. Advanced balanced nutrients, enhance the nutritional metabolism function of cells, and enable cells to obtain powerful energy; At the same time, it can activate the healthy immune genes of cells, increase the immune activity of cells and multiply the number of immune cells; Can make immune cells have the ability to release a large number of specific immunoglobulins, so as to directly kill bacteria and viruses invading cells, and directly neutralize and remove physical and chemical substances absorbed by cells; Powerful immune cells can directly devour dead cells and metabolic wastes, and help the cells with low function to restore their functions, thus achieving the purpose of treating diseases. Hippocrates, known as the father of medicine, said: drug treatment is not as good as food treatment, and food is the best medicine for human treatment. He believes that the innate immunity of human body is the real terminator of disease.
The homology of medicine and food is one of the most valuable contributions of primitive medicine in China to human beings. Whole grains are beneficial to the human body but not to the body, so they are "neutral". This is the most important standard for China's original medicine to choose food. This standard is based on "people-oriented", not on the objective basis of "testing" with experimental animals.
In this standard, there is no clear boundary between food and medicine. When food leaves the "medium" a little, it will be cold (such as mung beans) or warm (such as lobster sauce). If it deviates far from the middle, it is "cold" and "hot". If the medicine is farther away from the middle, this is the origin of cold medicine or hot medicine. "Cold is hot, and heat is cold", which is the treatment principle of traditional Chinese medicine. If you have a fever, you should take cold medicine. If the fever is not so bad, you don't need to take medicine. It can be adjusted by cold foods (such as mung beans mentioned above). Or conversely, Dallas goes to the auditorium, which is what we often call "diet therapy". Dietotherapy and medicated diet are not the same concept. The former uses food for conditioning, while the latter turns what is usually classified as "medicine" into delicious food. For example, "Danggui Ginger Mutton Soup" is both medicine and food. It is the best choice for people who are weak and often have cold hands and feet in winter.
If it is extremely cold or hot, it is called "poison". For example, "croton" is also a kind of bean. Ordinary people will have diarrhea if they eat one by mistake, because it is extremely hot and is often used to treat patients with extreme cold. Therefore, Huangdi Neijing said that treating diseases is "gathering poison to attack it", not "gathering medicine to attack it". Therefore, no matter food, medicine or even poison are homologous, because the purpose is the same: to restore the self-organization ability that deviates from the normal state to the normal state.
Western medicine is not. No medicine can be food, and food can't be said to be effective. As for "poison", it is even different. It needs to be emphasized again that Chinese medicine is a "people-oriented" standard, not a "laboratory animal-oriented" standard. If the toxicity of croton is tested by the usual animal model of western medicine, the result is the opposite. Experimental mice will not only have diarrhea, but also become more and more blessed, so the so-called "mouse-oriented" "objective" standard is not perfect.
The two different medical systems have different goals: western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine, and each has its own value evaluation system. Originally, the two systems could complement each other and respect each other. However, today's medical and western medicine value evaluation system is in the DPRK, while Chinese medicine is in the wild, and medicine and food are homologous, so this precious wealth is questioned, abandoned and even misused. For example, the once popular saying that mung beans can cure diabetes. Because of the large number of diabetic patients and the "lifelong medication" recognized by modern medicine, the society has been troubled, so the theory has aroused widespread concern since it appeared, and finally caused a "trust crisis" and "health crisis" about dietotherapy because of many loopholes. The paradox of this theory is that the standard of diabetes is defined by western medicine. For example, according to the level of blood sugar, using mung beans as a diet therapy is to solve the diseases defined by western medicine from the perspective of Chinese medicine, which is unscientific in itself and loses the advantages and characteristics of Chinese medicine, because mung beans are definitely not as effective as hypoglycemic drugs of western medicine from the perspective of indicators alone. The two are different systems and not on the same line, so this statement has loopholes and cannot be justified. After this academic loophole is enlarged, it is actually a good thing for dietotherapy or the whole Chinese medicine community: the lack of this problem is not the lack of one person, but the lack of the whole Chinese medicine community. The "health crisis" is not caused by one person. The fundamental reason is that the whole field of Chinese medicine has lost its own value evaluation system. This lesson should be made up, otherwise the "health crisis" will continue and the whole Chinese medicine system will collapse.