[Edible and medical application of pasta ulmi, salt, black curd beans, vinegar and thick sauce].
Pasta ulmi, salt, black curd beans, vinegar and thick sauce recorded in the book of Jijiupian (emergency chapter), written by SHI You in the Western Han dynasty could be used as condiments. For example, pasta ulmi tastes spicy, salt tastes salty, black curd beans taste bitter while vinegar tastes acidic. All of them also have high medical values, which were described as materia medica in the early classic literature of materia medica. The dual-purpose for both medicine and food reflected the characteristics of combination of food nutrition and diet-therapy as well as the important connotation of isogeny of medicine and food at early stage of the development of medicine.
The Institute for the Literature of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan 250355, China.
Jin-ping
JP
Yang
D019342:Acetic Acid; D003212:Condiments / Q000266:history*; D049690:History, Ancient; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000266:history*; D012965:Sodium Chloride
D012965:Sodium Chloride; D019342:Acetic Acid