The same origin of food as medicine means that many foods can be used as medicine. There are many Chinese medicines with the same origin as food, generally more than ten kinds. Common ones include yam, jujube, red bean, ginger, black bean, wolfberry, coix seed, black sesame, mulberry, longan meat, and other Chinese medicines.

  1. Yam: It has the effects of nourishing qi and yin, consolidating essence and stopping leukorrhea, and nourishing the spleen, lungs, and kidneys. It is suitable for treating spleen deficiency, poor appetite, fatigue, loose stools, diarrhea, lung deficiency, wheezing and coughing, kidney deficiency, spermatorrhea, leukorrhea and frequent urination;
  2. Jujube: It has the effects of nourishing qi, nourishing blood and calming the mind. It is suitable for treating spleen deficiency, poor appetite, fatigue, loose stools, and other symptoms;
  3. Red bean: It has the effects of regulating qi and activating blood circulation, clearing away heat and detoxifying. It is suitable for treating heart and stomach pain, hernia pain, and nameless swelling and pain;

4 1. Ginger: It has the effects of dispelling cold, warming the middle and stopping vomiting, warming the lungs and stopping cough, and detoxification. It is suitable for treating colds, stomach cold vomiting, lung cold cough, and can also detoxify fish and crabs;

  1. Black beans: It has the effects of improving eyesight, nourishing blood and dispelling wind, promoting diuresis, and detoxification. It is suitable for treating yin deficiency, thirst, dizziness, physical weakness and sweating, kidney deficiency and low back pain, edema and oliguria;
  2. Lycium barbarum: It has the effects of nourishing the liver and kidneys, improving eyesight, and is suitable for treating deficiency, deficiency of essence, and soreness of waist and knees. =Pain, dizziness, tinnitus, impotence, spermatorrhea, internal heat and thirst, blood deficiency and sallowness, blurred vision and other symptoms;
  3. Coix seed: It has the effects of diuresis, spleen invigoration and diarrhea, numbness removal, pus discharge, detoxification and dispersing knots. It is suitable for the treatment of edema, beriberi, urinary difficulties, spleen deficiency diarrhea, dampness and stiffness, as well as lung abscess, intestinal abscess, warts and other symptoms;
  4. Black sesame: It has the effects of nourishing essence and blood, moistening and lubricating the intestines. It is suitable for the treatment of premature graying of hair, dizziness, women’s postpartum milk deficiency, dry intestines Constipation and other diseases;
  5. Mulberry: It has the effects of nourishing yin and blood, promoting fluid and moistening the intestines, and is suitable for treating dizziness, tinnitus, premature graying of hair, internal heat and thirst, etc.;
  6. Longan meat: It has the effects of nourishing the heart and spleen, nourishing blood and calming the mind, and is suitable for treating excessive thinking, fatigue of the heart and spleen, insomnia and forgetfulness, etc.;
  7. Other Chinese medicines: such as hawthorn, fennel, star anise, black plum, papaya, cassia seed, lily, etc., can also be used as Chinese medicines with the same origin of medicine and food.