How to do TCM food therapy ?

Diet should be diversified Because the theory of Chinese medicine is based on the five elements of yin and yang, so the diet is also from the five tastes, five organs, “Nei Jing” proposed “five grains for nourishment (rice, millet, millet, wheat, beans, etc.), five fruits for help (a variety of fruits), five animals for the benefit (a variety of animals), five dishes for the full, the smell together and served, in order to replenish the essence and benefit the qi, the five, there are pungent, sour, sweet, bitter and salty, each has a benefit. Five flavors entrance, hidden in the stomach and intestines, taste has hidden, in order to nourish the five qi, qi and born, fluids into each other, God is self-generated”. This means that staple foods, fruits, meat and vegetarian dishes each have different roles. A balanced diet is the only way to maintain a healthy body. Chinese medicine also has a clear understanding of the different roles of the five flavors, “the five flavors into, acid into the liver, pungent into the lungs, bitter into the heart, salty into the kidneys, sweet into the spleen, is the five into.” This means that each organ needs different nutrients, and the five flavors are different from the internal organs, and the diet should be diversified to meet the needs of different organs, which coincides with the modern promotion of a balanced diet. Chinese cuisine is all about color, aroma and taste, in fact, it has achieved the five colors and five tastes, in a way it exceeds the so-called “one, two, three, four, five, red, yellow, blue, white, black” advocated nowadays.