Compendium Of Materia Medica Of The Traditional Chinese Medicine With Food Studies The Corresponding Relationship Between Physique Type

This paper makes a systematic research on corresponding relation of453kinds of food in Bencao Gangmu to constitution through traditional theoretical studying methods basing on the theory of constitution.We conclude its formation and development, sum up its classifying ways in the ancient and modern, and clinical applying in the modern through analyzing the theory of constitution.To research the affection of the food to constitution from five flavors, relative combination and fitting or no fitting in the diet through discussing the resource of cultivating health by the food.We clear up and summarize the food in Bencao Gangmu symmetrically and do a responding research with ten kinds of constitution, and then get the following conclusions:The balanced yin-yang constitution need pay attention to regular diet, balanced nutrient and strengthen exercise. The qi deficiency diathesis is divided into five types, which are liver qi deficiency, heart qi deficiency, stomach-spleen qi deficiency, lung qi deficiency and kidney qi deficiency, and there are146kinds of food fitting to the constitution. The yin deficiency diathesis is divided into lung-kidney yin deficiency and liver-kidney yin deficiency, and there are83kinds of food fitting to the constitution. The yang deficiency diathesis is divided into spleen-kidney yang deficiency and kidney yang deficiency, and there are168kinds of food fitting to the constitution. There are154kinds of food fitting to the dampness-heat constitution. The phlegm-damp diathesis is divided into dampness obstruction, retained phlegm-fluid cohesion and liquid remaining, and there are151kinds of food fitting to the constitution. The blood stasis diathesis is divided into six types, which are qi stagnation and blood stasis, qi deficiency and blood stasis, coldness coagulation and blood stasis, phlegm-heat mutual obstruction, thin fluid deficiency and blood stasis and dampness remaining and blood stasis, and there are79kinds of food fitting to the constitution. The qi depression diathesis is divided into lung qi depression, liver qi depression and spleen-stomach qi depression, and there are96kinds of food fitting to the constitution. There is one kind of food fitting to the special constitution. The blood deficiency diathesis is divided into heart-blood deficiency, liver-blood deficiency, spleen-blood deficiency and kidney-blood deficiency, and there are80kinds of food fitting to the constitution.This paper provide a guiding significance for clinical cultivating health and preventing disease through making a research on the affection of food to constitution and corresponding relation of food in Bencao G-angmu to ten kinds of constitution.