“芜荑盐豉醯酢酱”的食用与药用

Edible and medical application of pasta ulmi, salt, black curd beans, vinegar and thick sauce

西汉史游《急就篇》提到的“芜荑盐豉醯酢酱”，既可作为调味品食用（如辛用芜荑、咸用盐、苦用豆豉、酸用醯酢等），又都具有一定的药用价值，很早即作为药物被记载于本草书籍。这种药食兼用的双重性，反映了寓食于药、寓药于食的特点，也揭示了医学发展早期药食同源的重要内涵。

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 ulml tastes spicy, salt tastes salty, black curd beans tastes bitter while vinegar tastes acid. 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.