Netizens knocked on the window and left a message in the back of my blog post: "Today I heard some so-called traditional Chinese medicine practitioners on TV will keep healthy (CCTV2 The road to health), what kind of sex is cool, ancient proverbs, ancient book clouds, ancient medical scientists say, Materia Medica, etc. are used, it seems to still see flowers in the fog, for example, he said he should eat more ginger, and then above A series of arguments, the general argument is "the ancestor said that it is good to eat ginger." I don’t know how you think about this so-called diet therapy?”

　　What is my attitude about these diets? It’s a bit complicated to say. According to my experience, many people are very sensitive to such topics. , If you don’t like it, you will gather together and attack it, so let me be more careful, don’t think I’m nagging—I’m just talking about eight o’clock, ha ha.

　　 1. The ancestors said is definitely not all right, also It’s definitely not wrong, and it’s wrong to say yes or no. The next question is: what’s wrong with the ancestor’s words?

　　 2. You can’t use the words of the ancestor to prove the words of the ancestors Specifically, you can’t use the words of one ancestor to prove the words of another ancestor. Why? Because the words of the ancestors have been copied and copied from one ancient book to another. There are few arguments, denials, or proofs.

　　 3. For the same reason, don’t think that several ancestors all said the same sentence (or the same meaning), that sentence is correct Because they are actually just talking to each other (quoting), from the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, they are just simple repetitions. Therefore, ancient proverbs, ancient books, ancient medical scientists, several masterpieces... .. In fact, its weight is just a sentence of an ancient person.

　　 4. Use modern research to screen the words of the ancestors which are correct and which are wrong. This is a basic understanding (of course, in This is not a consensus in the academic world.) This has already been done in the field of Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine. Many achievements have been made at home and abroad, which attracted the world''s attention. However, there is still a blank in the field of Chinese medicine and health, and almost no similar work has been carried out. The experts just cite, retell, and talk. Sometimes, I write a few popular science articles, which are easy to understand, very cultural, and seem to be correct, but to be honest, I am a little uneasy: this Is that correct?

　　 5. Every nation should respect its ancestors and cultural traditions. This is normal. Driven by this desire, we are always willing to promote the comparisons of our ancestors." "Advanced" and correct performance or theory. In the field of diet and nutrition, we are familiar with the fact that our ancestors knew that kelp (rich in iodine) was used to treat "big neck disease" (iodine deficiency) and pig liver (rich in vitamin A) was used to treat night blindness. (Vitamin A deficiency)...this really makes us proud. However, it is also very easy to make us ignorant-thinking that the ancestor knew everything or omnipotence, what the ancestor said was right. In fact, the ancestor There are a lot of mistakes, but they are rarely publicized, such as "Pregnant women eat crabs and fetuses will traverse", "Pregnant women eat rabbit meat, and children will lack lips"....... There are wrong and right, when used Do you have to be vigilant when you believe?

　　6. The content of TCM diet is very complicated, and many people just choose to look at it (just look like it, it is still difficult to say). Use the content in line with the current nutrition theory, such as "Five Gu is a nutrient, five fruits are a help, five animals are a benefit, five vegetables are abundance, and the smell is combined to serve to replenish the essence and benefit the qi" (more amazing, is this clearly a balanced diet!), but does not talk about health care throughout the dynasties In the book (such as "Thousand Gold Recipes" "Drinking Meal", etc.), "Eating is not complicated, and there are crimes" (this is clearly against diversified balanced meals!). The greatest harm of this artificial bias (only good, not bad) is that we are not vigilant about what is good and bad. It’s like a person, everyone just talks about his merits and talks about his shortcomings, never talk about his shortcomings, in the long run, has it formed a disguised “deception”?

　　7. TCM diet The content of health preservation is actually a product of history, which has great limitations. This should be a rational understanding. Of course, the modern nutrition science we know now also has historical limitations, which can only be solved by continuous development of history. Specifically, many of the statements were correct in ancient times, but now that historical conditions have changed, those statements are not so correct. This is well understood. 8. Having said so much, maybe only this one is useful for netizens. Since those statements are not true or false (some experts "justify" them based on their own preferences, they are not reliable at all), then let us not discern them. Because you believe what he said or not, it does not affect your access to proper diet and nutrition-I mean, you can follow the principles of modern nutrition (such as "Chinese Resident''s Balanced Diet Guide 2007") Or other authoritative nutritional guidelines) to guide your own diet, this is fully evidenced and completely reliable. For example, about ginger, it is also very good to talk about its nutrients. Of course, if you say this, experts or everyone may not understand it, huh, huh, let’s say it’s not as "comprehensible" as traditional Chinese medicine.

　　 a little humble opinion for the reference of netizens. If anyone disagrees with the above points of this blog, please be merciful.