| With advancing of modern medicine and pharmacy, medicine emphasizes not only on treating diseases, but more on daily health maintenance and prevention of diseases. Diets are necessary for life. As a result, dietetic therapy, in which fitness, health maintenance and disease prevention are attained through diet, is regarded with more importance and becomes a booming branch of medicine in recent years. Dietotherapy of traditional Chinese medicine is a subject studying the quality, flavor, affinity to channel, combination, contraindication of food, the relationship of food and health and using diet to maintain health and prevent diseases under instructions of traditional Chinese medicine theory and following principle of holism of traditional Chinese medicine and treatment based on syndrome differentiation. It has the characteristics which are using both food and Chinese maetria medica, good curative effects, widely applied and few side effects. Accordingly, dietotherapy of traditional Chinese medicine is worth further research and discuss.Zhang Zhong-Jing in Han dynasty, studying ancient classics, collecting massive prescriptions of Chinese materia medica, wrote Shang Han Za Bin Lun (Treaties on cold pathogenic and miscellaneous diseases). This book was originally composed of 16 chapters and becoming two books, Shang Han Lun (treaties on cold pathogenic disease) and Jin Gui Yao Lui (synopsis of gold chamber), in Song dynasty because of historian reasons. Shang Han Lun has no specific chapter for dietotherapy, but records many related theories and methods of clinical practice in it. In Jin Gui Yao Lui, there are many applications of dietotherapy descriptions, and there are specific chapters like"contraindication and indication for birds, beats, fishes and worms"and"contraindication and indication for fruits, vegetables and crops", which discuss specifically food hygiene and dietetic contraindications. Though many traditional Chinese physicians at different times and lots of documents mentioned the prominent contribution of Zhong-Jing to dietotherapy, there is no complete study and discuss.This goal of this research is to study the thought and applications of dietotherapy in Shang Han Lun, and hopefully understand Zhong Jing's thought of dietotherapy better and help developing dietotherapy of Chinese materia medica. The method of the research is using documents and Access to sort, count and analyze the theories and prescriptions of Chinese matreia medica related to Shang Han Za Bin Lun.The results shows that Shang Han Za Bin Lun has sufficiently integrated theory and principles of applications for dietotherapy. Also, there are many examples of applications in it, mainly including"prevention as a goal","treatment according to three conditions","strengthening vital Qi and consolidating body resistance","widely usage of diverse food","using both food and Chinese materia medica","using the solvent appropriately","indication and contraindication for diet", and"diet for emergency". The proportion of prescriptions with both food and Chinese materia medica in the book is very big, including 17 prescriptions with only food in them, 227 prescriptions with both food and Chinese materia medica. There are 62 kinds of food used, including 34 daily food and 28 food as Chinese materia medica, of which the proportion to all the food and Chinese materia medica is one third.Zhong Jing well inherited the thought of dietotherapy from the ancestors and developed and innovated it, depicting a relatively integrated system of dietotherapy and using delicately lots of food on clinical treatment and health maintenance. His thought impacted the followers greatly and he is truly the founder of dietotherapy of traditional Chinese medicine. |
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