"' Medicine and food come from the same source '--this is the special viewpoint of traditional Chinese medical theory. It places an emphasis upon using natural foodstuffs to undertake the work of fortifying the body," says Yang Ling-ling, director of the Taipei Medical College Graduate Institute of Herbal Medicine. But the most ideal paradigm is "preventing disease before it happens."
「『藥食同源』是傳統中國醫學的特色，主張由自然食物進行身體的修補工作」，台北醫學院生藥學研究所所長楊玲玲說，最理想的境界則是「防患於未然」。