Song Dietary Therapeutic Research,

Health preserving with food and dietetic therapy are the important part of Traditional Chinese Medicine, which have very long history and luxuriant content.This paper discussed the health preserving with food and dietetic therapy before Song dynasty from fore times: prehistoric era, the health preserving with food and dietetic therapy budded the course of our ancestor looking for food. With the invention and use of fire, the health preserving with food and dietetic therapy piled out the pivotal pace; In the Pre-Chin era , the court set up the professional medicine of food, which is the sign of the health preserving with food and dietetic therapy had came into being. Before the Tang dynasty, the health preserving with food and dietetic therapy had been accumulated abundant experience. The Tang dynasty, people made a point of treating illness through food, further more, monograph of dietetic therapy had been appeared in this period.In a word, this study did not only simply unfurl phylogeny of the health preserving with food and dietetic therapy before the Song dynasty, but also discuss the trait of this historic period.