中医学认为,药食同源,食物用得适当也可以对疾病的恢复起很大作用。我们的祖先在这方面积累了丰富的经验,早在《黄帝内经》中就很重视饮食对人体健康的作用。它指出,五谷为养,五果为助,五畜为益,五蔬为充,简要地说明了饮食与健康的关系。《寿亲养老新书》说:人若能知其食性调而用之,则倍胜于药也。善治药者不如善治食。从现代医学观点来看,食疗确有补充人体营养物质,改善病人体质,提高病人抗病能力和防病治病的作用。 Chinese medicine believes that medicine and food homology, food properly used can also play a significant role in the recovery of the disease. Our ancestors have accumulated rich experience in this field. As early as in the Yellow Emperor’s Canon of Internalism, the importance of diet on human health has been emphasized. It pointed out that the grain for the support, five for the help, five for the benefit, five for the charge, a brief description of the relationship between diet and health. “Longevity pension book,” said: If people can know their diet and use it, the times are better than medicine. Good governance is better than cure. From a modern medical point of view, diet does have to supplement human nutrition, improve patient constitution, improve patient resistance to disease and disease prevention and treatment.