The creations and inventions of great immortal figures are always closely related to the life and livelihood of the people. If it is said that more than three thousand six hundred years ago, born in Luanchuan Yiyin opened up the first river of human soup, then Monk's "dietary herbs" is the earliest existing monographs on dietary therapy in our country and the world, Monk can be called the ancestor of the world's dietary therapy.

"Food Therapy Materia Medica" **** three volumes, containing 227 food medicine, not only rich in content, and most of the practical, set of ancient food therapy, and many drugs for the early Tang Dynasty herbal book of unrecorded products. Such as fish in the cinnamon fish, perch, fish (yellow croaker), as well as vegetables in the cabbage, spinach, lettuce, caraway, etc., rice and cereals in the mung bean, white beans, mustard wheat, etc., are for the first time in the "dietary herbs".

The book in China's medical history, especially in the history of the herb occupies an important position. We see the "Food Therapy Materia Medica", all edible and both medical effects of things are included, such as fruits and vegetables, rice and grain, birds and animals, insects and fish, as well as processed products. Monsoon for us to prescribe a dose of health and longevity of the "gold prescription", and these food and medicine varieties, a wide range of both edible and therapeutic value.

In ancient China, many health scientists, Monk has his own unique ideas and insights. He does not advocate breathing, exercise, nor does he advocate the pleasure of qin and chess, serving food bait, only advocate food therapy. "Medicine is not as good as food", "medicine is three times poisonous", Monk in a wide range of folk experience based on the collection, put forward his own dietary therapy advocates. He believes that the drug "poison" refers to the bias of the drug, such as hot, cold, warm, cold, sour, bitter, salty, etc., the use of the right cure, if the grasp is not good, but instead of inviting disaster, so he advocated that "to dispel the evil with medicine, nourishing with food." Grains and cereals, rice and white flour, which is the human race in the long history of the living process, from the countless food selected by the most peaceful flavor and the most abundant "food and medicine", its efficacy is precisely how to let humans survive, health and longevity. Food therapy not only avoids the bias of drugs, but also makes people healthy, therefore, for more than a thousand years, "Food Therapy Materia Medica" is widely favored by the world.

Montezemon was also a gourmet - a gourmet over 1300 years ago. In "Food Therapy Materia Medica", he also included many special dietary treatments for animals and animal organs. For example, the sheep section in the middle volume of the book says: "Lamb's liver: cold in nature. Treatment of liver wind and deficiency heat, eye redness and dark pain, blindness after fever, green sheep liver or son liver thin cut, water immersion Fu, extremely effective, raw son liver swallowed especially good."

The prescriptions prescribed by Monk in "Food Therapy Materia Medica" are both simple and easy to understand, as well as easy to follow and use. The therapeutic food items he prescribed abound in daily life. Chicken, duck, fish, meat, fruits and vegetables are all included. For example, "Duck: main tonifying Qi, digestion, eliminating twelve kinds of worms, white duck meat to supplement the deficiency", "persimmons: to supplement the deficiency. Red persimmon: tonifying gas, renewing the meridian gas. Dry persimmon: thick stomach and intestines, warming the middle, strengthening the spleen and stomach qi to eliminate blood." Black beans: make people live longer, and benefit the yang road." Such as these, life is common and easy to see, therapeutic methods are simple and easy to implement. These therapeutic products have a disease cure, no disease is nourishing, for the masses of people practically like.

Four, a therapeutic food spread all over the world

With the enhancement of people's awareness of therapeutic food and health maintenance, the quality of life, "therapeutic food herb" more and more by the people of the country and the world's attention. For more than a thousand years, "Food Therapy Materia Medica" has been widely quoted and promoted by domestic and foreign medical practitioners. The earliest references to the original text are Chen Zangqi's Gleanings from the Materia Medica of the Tang Dynasty, Tamba Kangrai's Medical Heart Formula of Japan, and the Jiayu Materia Medica and Zhenqi Materia Medica of the Northern Song Dynasty, and so on. However, in the long history, the original book of "therapeutic materia medica" is lost. 1907 British Stein (si AuYei Stein) in China's Gansu Dunhuang Mogao Caves in the acquisition of "therapeutic materia medica" scrolls. We can imagine the ecstasy of the high nosed Englishman when he acquired the scrolls and the way he danced. More than 1,300 years later, this treasure still lies in the Museum of London, England, with the collection number of stein Rolls No. 76.

The therapeutic herb scrolls appeared in the world, and the world's research on the scrolls and The therapeutic herb restoration was carried out one after the other. Japanese scholars Kano Naoki's first transcription of the British London collection of scrolls, 1924 Luo Zhenyu according to Kano's transcript, and with reference to another copy of the scrolls of the photocopy, his son Luo Fubao transcription, compiled into his editors, "Dunhuang Shihuang Shihua Shattered Gold," a book. 1925 to the title of "therapeutic herbal remedies scrolls," Oriental Institute, according to the Luo's photocopies of copies of the publication in 1930, the Japanese Shen Mei Wanzan scrolls of the study of the investigation of the study. The study of therapeutic herbs of the book 1931 Fan Fengyuan will be in the end of Wan San series of notes and Japanese kana side note extracted out of the deletion, the title of "Dunhuang Shihou ancient herbs" of the name of the lead print publication. 1980, the People's Health Publishing House commissioned the Director of the Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guang'anmen Hospital Xie Haizhu and Weng Weijian, lecturer at the Beijing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, began to "therapeutic herbs of the collation of the editorial work. Xie old and invited since the 50's will be carried out "therapeutic herbs" research Mr. Ma Jianxing and students Deng Jinsheng *** with the work, after more than 4 years of hard work and efforts, finally completed the finishing and editing tasks. 1984 July "therapeutic herbs" by the People's Health Publishing House published publicly, this important pharmacological works lost for thousands of years to restore the original appearance of the bright light back into the world, glossy future generations!

Review of the book

Recalling the Monk Monk of the millennia, the spring breeze is vast, not humble and unassuming. In the court upright as an official, but happy to live in seclusion in the garden. With the benevolence of a healer, he relieved the world of life. Writings "food therapy Materia Medica", to the future generations of food therapy and health care to give instructions.

Ancient Monk!

Monson is one of the most famous monks of all time!

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