药食同源
Traditional form:
藥食同源
Pinyin (reading):
yàoshítóngyuán
Definitions:
- lit. food and medicine come from the same source (idiom)
- fig. there is no clear-cut distinction between food and medicine
Characters:
- 药 - drugs, medicine; the leaf of the Dahurian angelica plant
- 食 - food; to eat
- 同 - same, similar; together with, alike
- 源 - spring; source, root, head; surname
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