Which five flavors do you mean? It means five kinds of food.

Abstinence from five flavors does not refer to food, and five flavors are referred to as five prohibitions, which refers to the taboo of five flavors when the five internal organs are sick.

Five flavors of Lingshu: "Liver disease is forbidden to be pungent, heart disease is forbidden to be salty, spleen disease is forbidden to be sour, kidney disease is forbidden to be sweet, and lung disease is forbidden to suffer." Ma Lu said, "There are five prohibitions on the taste of the five internal organs, all of which are controlled by the five elements." Because the five internal organs are inherently sick, it is not appropriate to make them more deficient with their antagonistic taste.

1, Xin: "can disperse, can do", that is, it has the functions of dispersing stagnation, promoting qi circulation and promoting blood circulation. Generally speaking, exterior-relieving drugs, qi-activating drugs and blood-activating drugs all have pungent taste. Therefore, spicy drugs are often used to treat exterior syndrome and qi-blood block syndrome. For example, Folium Perillae disperses cold, Radix Aucklandiae promotes qi circulation to reduce swelling, and Rhizoma Chuanxiong promotes blood circulation to remove blood stasis.

In addition, Neijing said: "Xin Yi runs it." In other words, pungent drugs also have the function of moistening dryness and nourishing yin, such as coltsfoot flower moistening lung and relieving cough, and dodder nourishing kidney. Spicy drugs mostly work for dispersing, so the theory of "Xin Run" is not representative.

2, Gan: "can make up, can be harmonious, can slow down", that is, it has the function of tonifying, harmonizing, harmonizing medicinal properties and relieving pain. Generally speaking, drugs that nourish and tonify deficiency, reconcile medicinal properties and relieve pain are mostly sweet.

Sweet herbs are often used to treat weakness of vital energy, body pain, reconcile medicinal properties and rescue poisoning. For example, ginseng can tonify the middle energizer, rehmannia glutinosa can nourish essence and blood, maltose can relieve pain, and licorice can reconcile medicinal properties and detoxify food poisoning.

3, acid: "Acceptable, astringent", that is, it has the function of convergence and astringency. Generally, drugs for consolidating exterior surface, stopping sweating, astringing lung, relieving cough, astringing intestine, stopping diarrhea, arresting seminal emission and stopping leukorrhagia all have sour taste.

Sour drugs are often used to treat physical weakness, hyperhidrosis, lung deficiency, chronic cough, chronic diarrhea, intestinal slippery, nocturnal emission, frequent urination, persistent belt collapse and so on. For example, Schisandra chinensis can strengthen the exterior and stop sweating, ebony can astringe the lung and stop cough, Galla chinensis can astringe the intestine and stop diarrhea, and Cornus officinalis can astringe the essence and stop leukorrhagia.

4. Bitterness: "It can drain, dry and strengthen", that is, it has the functions of clearing heat, purging fire, relieving constipation, drying dampness and strengthening yin (purging fire and storing yin). Generally speaking, drugs that clear away heat and purge fire, reduce qi and relieve asthma, reduce adverse reactions, stop vomiting, promote defecation, clear away heat and dry dampness, purge fire and store yin all have bitter taste.

Bitter medicine is often used to treat heat syndrome, fire syndrome, asthma, cough, nausea, constipation, dampness syndrome, yin deficiency and excessive fire. Such as Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi and Gardenia Gardenia, almond and prickly heat, Pinellia ternata and Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae, rhubarb and immature bitter orange, clearing heat and relaxing bowels, Gentiana scabra and Coptidis Rhizoma, purging fire and storing yin, etc.

5, salty: "can be soft", that is, it has the effect of stopping diarrhea, relaxing bowels, and combining hard and soft. Generally speaking, drugs for relaxing bowels or moistening intestines, softening and resolving hard mass are salty, and salty drugs are often used to treat dry stool, excessive phlegm, swelling and pain. Such as mirabilite for purging heat and relaxing bowels, seaweed oyster for eliminating gallbladder, and turtle shell for softening and resolving hard mass.

Traditional Chinese medicine application

First, guide prescription medication

The introduction of five flavors is the basic theory of treating diseases and sending prescriptions and drugs, and there is also a forbidden area in the modulation of five flavors, which is the taboo of five flavors.

According to the theory that the five flavors enter the five internal organs according to their own preferences, when the five internal organs are sick, there will be invincible flavor. Take liver disease as an example, liver disease is pungent, liver belongs to wood, pungent belongs to gold and Jin Kemu, so liver disease is pungent, so use pungent drugs with caution to prevent aggravation; Acidity moves tendons, and tendons are not easy to eat too much acid. Acid belongs to wood, and tendon is the body of liver. If the tendons are sick, you can't taste dirty. Use less acid medicine to prevent aggravation.

Second, guide the dietary taboos when you are sick.

1. Under normal circumstances, the five flavors can breed the five internal organs, but the five flavors are too easy to harm the five internal organs, especially in the case of diseases. For example, sour taste enters the liver and nourishes the liver, which is beneficial to the liver to nourish tendons, but the taste is too sour, which will hurt the liver and lead to the prevalence of liver qi. We should choose five taboos according to the diseases of the five internal organs, so patients with liver disease and myopathy should not eat sour taste, and so on.

2. Determine the taboo content according to the five elements. There is a relationship between the zang-fu organs. Under normal circumstances, the inhibition and restraint between the five zang-fu organs is a virtuous circle. In pathological state, it may be over-inhibited. At this time, it is necessary to avoid foods that aggravate the pathological interaction of the five internal organs.

The above contents refer to:

Baidu encyclopedia-five taboos

Baidu encyclopedia-five flavors of traditional Chinese medicine