Diet Therapy And Health Books Recommend That Our Ancestors’ First Choice For Treatment Was Diet Therapy.
Traditional Chinese medicine has been passed down for thousands of years, and traditional medical systems such as India have been passed down for thousands of years. Its core wisdom seems to be particularly precious today.
Modern medicine often exhibits a relatively single approach to chronic diseases, which has even led to the controversy of "ineffective medical treatment". At that time, many Western scholars began to look back at the teachings given by ancient physicians and discovered a medical sequence with surprisingly consistent properties. That is to say, it starts with dietary therapy, then drug therapy, and finally surgery.
This ancient law is actually the cornerstone of health that we most need to regain now.
The “common prescription” of Hippocrates and Sun Simiao
You may not know that Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, made it clear more than two thousand years ago that food becomes your medicine and medicine becomes your food. Sun Simiao, the king of medicine in the Tang Dynasty of my country, also emphasized in "Qian Jin Yao Prescription" that as a doctor, you should first understand the source of the disease, know what is causing it, treat it with food, and then prescribe medicine if the disease cannot be cured by food therapy. These two masters of Eastern and Western medicine, spanning time, space and regions, proposed exactly the same diagnosis and treatment procedures.
They all put food therapy in the first place, believing that the human body has a strong repair ability, and food is the safest and most basic fuel to activate this ability.
Regrettably, driven by the fast pace and high efficiency of the modern medical system, this normal order is often reversed. As soon as the patient enters the door, he or she will be directly recommended to undergo surgery or be prescribed a bunch of chemical drugs. However, few people can sit down, seriously inquire and make adjustments to their daily diet.
See the wisdom of "using food as medicine" from the "Huangdi Neijing"
"The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic", known as the source of traditional Chinese medicine, is actually a treasure book in itself, and this treasure book takes diet therapy and health preservation as its core.
It proposes such a dietary principle, which is "five grains for nourishment, five fruits for help, five livestock for benefit, and five vegetables for supplement". It regards complete and natural food as the basis for maintaining life and the basis for preventing diseases.
Traditional medicine upholds the view that food is not just a source of energy, but also contains the kind of "information" that can regulate body balance.
When we isolate specific substances in a medicinal plant and create a single "chemical magic bullet", we often destroy its naturally occurring synergistic effects.
For example, there is a symphony orchestra. If the first violinist only performs a solo, it is absolutely impossible to play the grand momentum and harmony of the entire piece of music.
Massive practices have proven that maintaining the integrity of food and its natural nutritional structure is the most effective and fundamental way to prevent and treat chronic diseases.
Three core principles of traditional medicine
The principles of maintaining health of the traditional system represented by traditional Chinese medicine are the same as the principles of maintaining health by the traditional system represented by Indian medicine. They are essentially different from modern allopathic medicine.
The first is Food as medicine .
It holds the view that the food we eat has two situations. One is that it nourishes the body and strengthens the immune system; the other is that if it is eaten indiscriminately, it will turn into "garbage" that poisons the body.
Therefore, every time during diagnosis and treatment, the first thing the doctor pays attention to is the patient's dietary structure and imbalances.
The second is to pay attention to synergy .
Traditional medicine does not pursue the use of a single ingredient to "eliminate" symptoms, but rather uses a combination of natural herbs to strengthen and activate the body's own immune system and regenerative capabilities.
It regards each person as a unique individual, and the basis for treatment is to observe the overall state of this person called "person", rather than just focusing on a certain condition called "disease".
The third is to integrate it openly with modern medicine.
Traditional medicine has a very clear understanding of its own position. It will not let you choose to drink a bowl of soup when you encounter a heart attack or severe trauma.
It attaches great importance to the significant advantages of modern Western medicine in first aid, surgery, etc., and advocates combining this "reactive" emergency treatment with a "preventive" collaborative system. Only in this way can we develop a strong and far-sighted comprehensive medicine for the 21st century.
Return to the kitchen: Give yourself the best “prescription”
More and more scientists, after repeated research and experiments, have come to a thought-provoking conclusion: many chemically synthesized drugs have clear side effects that are harmful to health, and there are also a large number of chronic diseases that can be improved by adjusting the daily diet, and even use reasonable light fasting to create an opportunity for the body to perform "general cleaning".
For ordinary people like you and me, the inspiration brought by this ancient wisdom is extremely practical: instead of pinning all your hopes on doctors and scalpels after your body sends warning signals, it is better to start now and re-examine your own kitchen and the table where food is placed.
The value of preparing a complete, natural meal for yourself and your family is much higher than buying expensive health care products later or suffering the pain of surgery.
The best choice to prevent diseases and maintain health is truly hidden in the smell of fireworks that surrounds our three meals a day.
