On a regular basis, a food is seldom used alone to supplement nutrition or to treat diseases. In order to enhance the effectiveness and palatability of food, different foods are often used together, and this kind of relationship is known as food compounding. This relationship is called food compounding. Food compounding and drug compounding are basically the same, the only difference is that food compounding not only pays attention to the therapeutic effect, but also pays attention to the nutrition and flavor. The combination of food is basically divided into synergistic and antagonistic aspects. The synergistic combination of food includes mutual necessity and mutual enablement; the antagonistic aspect includes mutual fear, mutual killing, mutual evil and opposite.

Compatibility

Similar foods are used in conjunction with each other to enhance each other's efficacy. Such as the treatment of liver and kidney yin deficiency type hypertension in the tamarind and eggs porridge, tamarind and eggs **** tonic liver and kidney, clearing the heat; and then such as the treatment of impotence leeks fried walnut kernel, leeks and walnut kernel can be warmed kidney yang, the synergistic use of the power to multiply the strength of the yang.

Phase to make

To a type of food as the main, another type of food as a supplement, to strengthen the efficacy of the main food. If the treatment of wind-cold cold ginger sugar drink, warming and stomach brown sugar, ginger warming and dispersal of cold effect enhancement; treatment of rheumatoid arthritis mulberry mulberry wine, the pungent dispersal of blood and menstruation of wine, so that the mulberry branches of the wind-dampness effect to strengthen.

Phase Fear

A kind of food's can reduce or remove the adverse effects of another kind of food. Such as garlic can reduce or eliminate the adverse effects of phytohemagglutinin in lentils. Ginger can reduce or eliminate the adverse effects of certain fish, such as causing diarrhea and skin rashes.

Phase kill

A food to reduce or eliminate the adverse effects of another food, in fact, is the fear and kill the same relationship from a different perspective of the two statements.

Phase-negative

One food can weaken the effect of another food. The efficacy of qi replenishing foods (such as yam and chicken) can be weakened by radish

On the contrary

The combination of two kinds of food may produce undesirable effects, which forms a taboo on the combination of food. According to the experience of previous generations, the food taboo than the drug taboo (eighteen anti, nineteen fear) is more. Such as persimmons taboo tea, mustard cabbage taboo carp, white potatoes taboo eggs, radish taboo orange, green onions taboo honey.