What is the function of the five flavors?

Efficacy and function.

Astringent and astringent, invigorating qi and rejuvenating the body, tonifying the kidney and calming the heart.

Schisandra chinensis is the ripe fruit of Schisandra chinensis in Central China, this product has aroma, sour, sweet, warm nature, return to the lungs, heart and kidney meridians, and has the effects of astringency and astringency, invigorating qi and rejuvenating Jin, tonifying the kidney and calming the heart.

1. Convergence and astringency:

Schisandra chinensis is sour, sweet, warm, enters the lung meridian, has the effect of astringent and astringent, astringent and cough-relieving of the lungs, and is often used for long-term cough and asthma.

2. Nourishing Qi and Rejuvenating Jin:

Schisandra chinensis has the effect of nourishing qi and quenching thirst, and is often used to improve and alleviate symptoms such as qi deficiency and injury, fatigue and sweating, and shortness of breath.

3. Tonify the kidneys and calm the heart

Schisandra chinensis enters the heart and kidney meridians, which can tonify the kidney and calm the heart, and is often used for heart palpitations, wheezing and coughing, kidney qi is not solid, spermatozoa, frequent urination, and diarrhea for a long time.

1.The sour taste has the effect of astringency and rejuvenation, and can be used for symptoms such as self-perspiration, night sweats or diarrhea. Sour taste also has the effect of invigorating, and can also be used for yin deficiency, or after heat hurts yin, or thirst quenching caused by qi and yin deficiency, that is, diabetes.

Bitter Chinese medicine believes that it has a laxative effect and can be used to regulate symptoms such as constipation and poor bowel movements.

Sweet Chinese medicine believes that it has a tonic or soothing effect, and can be used to regulate qi deficiency, especially the weakness of the spleen and stomach or abdominal pain caused by coldness.

Pungent Chinese medicine believes that it can be done and dispersed, and can play a role in relieving the surface or invigorating blood, and can be used for external sensual diseases such as wind chill cold, wind heat cold, or qi stagnation and blood stasis.

5. Salty Chinese medicine believes that it can soften and disperse knots, and can be used for nodular diseases, such as thyroid nodules and breast nodules.

The five flavors of traditional Chinese medicine have five basic tastes: pungent, sweet, sour, bitter and salty. In addition, there are light and astringent tastes, the effects and indications of which are described as follows:

The pungent taste has the functions of divergence, qi, and blood. General ** manifestation, qi and blood blockade pattern. Some aromatic drugs are also marked with "Xin", in addition to the characteristics of being able to disperse and work, aromatic drugs also contain aromatic defilement, aromatic dampness, aromatic opening and other effects.

Sweet taste has the effect of tonic, relieving pain and relieving pain, harmonizing medicinal properties, and neutralizing. It is generally used for deficiency syndrome, relieving acute pain, and reconciling various medicines. Some sweet medicines also have the effect of antidote to food poisoning.

The sour taste has the effect of astringency and astringency. It is mostly used for body weakness and sweating, long-term diarrhea and dysentery, lung deficiency and long-term cough, spermatozoa slippery semen, frequent urination and urgency.

Astringency, similar but not the same as sourness. Acid can produce Jin, sour and sweet and yin are all functions that astringent drugs do not have.

Bitterness can be vented, and it can be dry. The meaning of cathargy is wider, and it refers to catharsis for constipation, which is not good for urinating; There are fingers that can lower lung qi and are used for coughing and asthma of upward reversal of lung qi. It can also reduce gastric gas, and is used for vomiting and hiccups on the stomach gas; There is also a finger to clear the vent, which is used for hot and inflamed, red eyes and bitter mouth.

Dry is dry and damp, used for dampness, and dampness is different from cold and damp, damp and hot. Warm bitterness and medicinal cold and dampness syndrome; Cold bitter medicine is used for damp heat syndrome.

Salty has the effect of softening and dispersing knots and purging down. It is mostly used for sputum nucleus, gall, fistula and other syndromes.

It has the effect of infiltrating moisture and diluting water, and is mostly used for edema, unfavorable urination and other syndromes.

1. It refers to the five tastes of sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty.

From: Spring and Autumn Sun Tzu's "The Art of War: Momentum": "The taste is not more than five, and the change of the five flavors cannot be tasted." ”

Translation: There are only five basic flavors, but there are countless kinds of dishes that can be cooked from these five types.

2. It generally refers to delicious food made of various flavors or blended flavors.

From: Ming Zhang Ning "Fangzhou Miscellaneous Words": "I don't taste the five flavors of plump things in my life, it is light and safe, so it is longevity." ”

Translation: In my life, I rarely eat food with a good taste, only eat light, safe and secure, so I have a long life.

1. 五味俱全 [ wǔ wèi jù quán ] Five flavors: a combination of sweet, sour, bitter, spicy and salty. Describe the seasoning is complete and suitable.

Source: Pre-Qin Anonymous "Rites and Fortunes": "Five flavors and six harmony, twelve foods, and each other is also qualitative." ”

Translation: The five flavors (sour, bitter, pungent, salty, and sweet), the six harmony (the four tastes of sourness, bitterness, pungentness, and saltiness are modulated by slippery and sweet), and the twelve foods (the different foods that people eat in the twelve months of the year) alternate in turn.

2. Five flavors of miscellaneous Chen [ wǔ wèi zá chén ] Sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, and salty all come to my heart, and I can't realize what kind of taste it is, describing people's bad mood.

Example sentence: Life is like a parabola, every beginning and turning is full of mixed thoughts.

The basic theories of Chinese medicine are sour, bitter, sweet, pungent and salty.

a) Xin. 1.**For sleepiness: can disperse, can do, can diverge, flow qi, blood activation.

2.Adverse reactions: how much energy consumption of pungent medicine hurts yin.

b) Gan. 1.**Function: It can subsidize, pretend to be able to slow down, can be harmonious, has the functions of replenishing deficiency, neutralizing, harmonizing, relieving urgency, and reconciling medicine.

2.Adverse effects: greasy diaphragm obstructs stomach and makes people full.

c) Acids. **Function: It can be retracted, astringent, and has the effect of astringency and astringency.

Adverse reactions: Most sour drugs can astringent evil spirits.

4) Bitterness. 1.**Function:

The meaning of being able to vent, being dry, being firm, and being able to vent is three: one refers to the bitterness and can be vented; The second finger can reduce the bitterness; The three fingers of bitterness can be discharged, and the meaning of being dry refers to bitterness and dryness: one refers to bitterness and can strengthen yin, that is, to expel fire and store yin, and the second refers to a strong stomach.

2.Adverse effects: It can hurt the stomach and cut the stomach.

5) Salty. **Function: It can be soft, can be lowered, has the effect of softening and dispersing knots, and laxative and intestinal effects.

Adverse effects: If you eat too much salty, the pulse will be cold and discolored"It can hurt the spleen and stomach.