| Objective:Sub-health is a new medical concept of modem medicine in the end of 20th century. There is no concept of sub-health in the classics traditional Chinese medicine, but Emphasis on the preventive treatment in "Huang Di Nei Jing" included the sub-health people's treatment.Under the Chinese Medicine theory, research to combination the Chinese medicine with food used in sub-health to the purpose of treating disease" preventive healthcare, health longevity"Methods:This article based on the " Huang Di Nei Jing " and other classics on the "preventive treatment" theory and medicinal diet to improve sub-health state of systemize literature, to study the equipment, processing and use of medicinal diet for sub-health.Results:Future study at the intrinsic mechanism and rules to improve the medicinal diet in the application of sub-health state.Conclusion:The medicinal diet is a traditional way under the guidance of Chinese medicine theory, combine the Chinese medicine and food, used for health care, disease prevention and rehabilitation. The sub-health is a state between health and disease. Application of the medicinal diet is belonging to the preventive treatment area. It has obvious advantages of efficacy and safety compared to drug intervention. |