Medicinal diet is a reasonable combination of medicines and foods to achieve the effects of health care and strengthening the body, regulating internal organ diseases, and preventing diseases and changes.
1. Health care, prevention and treatment of diseases: medicinal diets can make use of the characteristics of food or drug flavor bias, can be used in daily life for the subhealthy people, because different flavors of food and drugs have different affinity for different internal organs, reasonable use of which can adjust the human body’s yin and Yang state, so that the human body’s yin and yang tend to be balanced, to achieve health care, prevention and treatment of disease effects.
2. Regulate visceral diseases: in patients with visceral diseases, you can use different flavors of the medicinal diet to regulate the diseases of the internal organs. For example, patients with liver disorders can consume sweet medicinal diets, such as round-grained rice, beef, jujube, sunflower and so on. Therefore, medicinal diets are used in the treatment of different internal diseases, which not only help the recovery of the disease but also facilitate the physical and mental rehabilitation of the patients.
3. Prevention of disease and change: patients who already have a disease, the consumption of medicinal diets can prevent the disease to malignant transformation, for example, patients suffering from phlegm-dampness evidence of lung disease, it is advisable to eat more light and phlegm medicinal diets, not only to prevent phlegm-dampness breeding, but also help to clear the body of phlegm, increase the body’s ability to heal.
The efficacy of medicinal diet is relatively limited, can not completely replace the drug, can be in the doctor’s advice according to their own situation reasonable choice of medicinal diet, in order to play the role of medicinal diet.