《本草纲目》收载药食两用品的研究OA

To explore the academic thought of"food and medicine sharing the same origin"contained in the Compendium of Materia Medica(本草纲目)and systematically summarize the medicinal properties of the food-medicine dual-use substances it records.Taking the Compendium of Materia Medica as the research object,a systematic screening and statistical analysis was conducted on the food-medicine dual-use substances recorded in the book.The medicinal properties were categorized and analyzed from aspects such as the four natures,five flavors,meridian affinity,efficacy classification,and ascending-descending-floating-sinking characteristics.Accord-ing to statistics,a total of 100 kinds of medicinal and edible substances were identified in the Compendium of Materia Medica.The dis-tribution of medicinal properties showed the following patterns:the four natures were mainly neutral and warm;the five flavors were pre-dominantly sweet and pungent;the meridian affinity mainly involved the lung,spleen,and liver meridians;the functional categories were mostly focused on tonifying deficiency,clearing heat,warming the interior,and relieving exterior syndromes;and predominantly ascending and floating.The Compendium of Materia Medica systematically summarizes the theoretical and practical achievements regard-ing medicine and food homology before the Ming dynasty.Concepts such as the ten categories,yin-yang of taste and nature,suitability and contraindications of five flavors,and ascending-descending-floating-sinking provided foundational guidance.Its medicinal property patterns,characterized by neutral/warm natures and sweet/pungent flavors,offer critical textual evidence and theoretical support for defining and applying food-medicine dual-use substances in later generations.