Ancient medical practitioners affirmed that pharmaceutical treatment is the mainstay, and also emphasized the importance of food treatment. It is believed that after a person is sick, do not rely solely on drugs, should pay attention to the use of dietary principles, in order to facilitate the recovery of the disease. Chinese medicine attaches great importance to dietary regimen, known as food nutrition. The "Neijing" contains "big poison cure, ten to its six; often poison cure, ten to its seven; small poison cure, ten to its eight; non-toxic cure, ten to its nine; food to raise the full, do not make too much, to hurt its positive". This shows that the food conditioning, will not produce a variety of side effects of drugs, will not hurt the body, through the food, so that the patient to restore vitality, prompted by the healing. Especially the long illness and tuberculosis and other consumptive diseases, the need to strengthen the food. As the saying goes, "medicine is not as good as food", dietary regimen, can often receive good results. Such as summer fever, commonly known as resistance and propulsion, medicine is ineffective, such as eating winter melon soup, green bean soup, red bean soup, can play a preventive effect.

Therapeutic

Rational use of food characteristics or regulate the nutritional composition of the diet to prevent and treat diseases known as therapeutic. In short, the use of food to prevent and treat disease is called therapeutic food.

The so-called medicinal diet; it is to take the nature of the drug, the flavor of the food, complement each other, *** with the matching *** with the cooking and the production of meals known as medicinal diet. Shape is food, sex is medicine. Playing food with the power of medicine, food to help the synergistic effect of medicine, that is, delicious food, but also can achieve the dual role of drug therapy and food nutrition. It is an important part of traditional Chinese diet and traditional medicine.

The difference between dietary nutrition and dietary therapy

Dietary nutrition focuses on dietary supplementation; dietary therapy focuses on dietary treatment.

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