Food therapy, on the other hand, refers to the therapeutic effect of food. Therefore, the concept of Chinese medicine food therapy, aimed at people who are already sick, reflecting the Chinese medicine food and drug homology, food before medicine idea, is the study of the use of appropriate food, or the use of food with drugs, through the daily diet of the way to treat the disease of the academic. The role and importance of food therapy, the Tang Dynasty, the king of medicine Sun Simiao's "Thousand Gold Formula" is highly summarized: "food can expel evil and safe internal organs, pleasing the spirit of the spirit to capitalize on the blood, if you can use the food to level the disease, the release of the feelings of the disease, can be described as a good work ...... when you have to understand the source of the disease first, know the offender, food treatment, food therapy is not healed, and then The order of the medicine." This sentence tells us that food can get rid of evil health care, nourish the human body qi and blood, if only with food can cure the disease, can be called a brilliant doctor. The general rule of treatment is that, insight into the cause of the disease, understand the condition, and then the first food treatment, food treatment is not good, and then the use of drugs.
In addition, it is important to emphasize that food therapy is effective, but not blindly replace the drug. Because food, although there is also a taste of bias and have to correct the body's imbalance of yin and yang, but its bias is not as obvious as the drug, so the simple dietary therapy is mainly applied to the condition of the early stage of the disease or the recovery, or chronic diseases of the remission period. After all, drugs are more biased, and the effect of treating diseases is much stronger than that of food. Food therapy can not replace Western medicine, from the point of view of the comparison of Chinese and Western medicine, Chinese medicine treatment focuses mainly on regulating the internal organs of yin and yang lifting in and out of the qi, focusing on the whole but the local target is not enough; Western medicine is to emphasize the targeted treatment, in the whole body function of the overall regulation of the lack of. The two together, each with its own strengths, can often get twice the result with half the effort. This is for some diseases, especially chronic diseases, with Chinese medicine dietary therapy can reduce the amount of Western medicine is the reason why. However, if you blindly stop taking medication and only use dietary nutrition and dietary therapy to maintain, it will inevitably lead to a short-term rebound of the condition. For this situation, the correct approach should be, in the case of the two together, according to the condition of the gradual reduction in the amount of Western medicine, through a slow process, and strive to minimize the amount of Western medicine or simply use food therapy to control the recovery.
As you can see, dietary therapy and dietary supplementation are two completely different categories. As the fundamental principle of Chinese medicine is to "regulate yin and yang, to (medicine and food) bias correction (human body) bias", that is to say, the use of a variety of therapeutic media bias, to correct the human body has been biased yin and yang imbalance, so as to restore the balance of yin and yang of the normal. If the healthy people take therapeutic formula, due to the obvious bias of the therapeutic formula, it will not play a health role, but also break the original balance of yin and yang and lead to disease. So the health care people must be clear which is the food nutrition, which is the therapeutic formula, usually see the relevant information, be sure to carefully clarify its role and scope of application, not to be used indiscriminately.