药补不如食补

Traditional form:

藥補不如食補

Pinyin (reading):

yàobǔbùrúshíbǔ

Definitions:

• the benefits of medicine are not as great as those of good nutrition

Characters:

• 药 - drugs, medicine; the leaf of the Dahurian angelica plant
• 补 - to fix, to mend, to patch, to restore
• 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
• 如 - as, as if, like, such as, supposing
• 食 - food; to eat
• 补 - to fix, to mend, to patch, to restore

Traditional characters:

• 藥 - drugs, medicine; the leaf of the Dahurian angelica plant
• 補 - to fix, to mend, to patch, to restore
• 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
• 如 - as, as if, like, such as, supposing
• 食 - food; to eat
• 補 - to fix, to mend, to patch, to restore