Dietary Herbal Medicine

Name: Dietary Herbal Medicine
Author: Meng Shen

食疗本草

by Meng Shen (孟诜)

Status: Completed
Source: Fanqie

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267Chapters

Synopsis

"Dietotherapeutic Materia Medica" is a very representative ancient dietary therapy book from the Tang Dynasty in my country. It was compiled by Meng Shen and supplemented by Zhang Ding. The book is divided into three volumes and systematically includes hundreds of daily foods such as grains, vegetables, fruits, animals and poultry, seafood, and seasonings. The book abandons ordinary medical science and is based on people's daily diet. It records the nature and taste of each ingredient, its edible effects, applicable diseases, dietary taboos and simple recipes one by one. Different from traditional Materia Medica, which focuses on medicinal materials, this book focuses on edible things, taking into account dietary supplements, dietary therapies, and external treatments. It also takes into account the differences in soil and water between the north and the south, and distinguishes the effects of raw, cooked, and fresh dried ingredients on the same food. The book contains a large number of simple treatment methods that are easily available to ordinary people, such as external application of wild vegetables for sores, fruits for cough relief, aquatic products for reducing swelling, and grains to regulate the spleen and stomach. The text is simple and pragmatic, integrating medical knowledge into three meals, and creating a popular system of the same source of food and medicine. It is not only a record of diet and health care in the Tang Dynasty, but also an important reference for food therapy classics in later generations. It is still of high reference value for modern medicinal diets and daily dietary supplements.

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