Construction of traditional Chinese nutrition discipline system
In traditional Chinese language,nutrition is a process in which human beings nourish the viscera and limbs of the body to maintain life activities by converting the water and grain fine substances in the diet through the spleen and stomach.Traditional Chinese nutrition is a science that studies the law of human nutri-tion and the measures to improve it under the guidance of traditional Chinese medicine.Its development went through the embryonic stage in the Zhou Dynasty,initial theoretical forming in the Spring-Autumn and Warring States Period,growing in the Tang Dynasty,flouring in the Song and Yuan Dynasties,maturity in the Ming and Qing Dynasties,and relative perfection in the modern times.Its research contents include basic theory,nourishing raw materials,food,methods and practical applications.Its discipline system should be composed of the basic theory of traditional Chinese nutrition,raw materials,dietary prescriptions,dietary technology,public nutrition and clinical nutrition,and the six sub-disciplines together constitute a complete discipline sys-tem of"theory,law,prescription and food".
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