Homology of medicine and food” embodies the Chinese nation’s unique wisdom, integrating nutritional and therapeutic functions to form a health philosophy centered on prevention, nourishment, and syndrome-based diet therapy. From the legend of Shennong to The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon, Sun Simiao’s Prescriptions , Li Shizhen’s Compendium, and modern scientific validation, this concept has shaped dietary practices, health preservation, and medical traditions for millennia. This study explores mud crab, rapeseed oil, and mugwort smoke as non-pharmaceutical healing resources, showing that they are both foundations of traditional Chinese medicine and emerging productive forces in modern life sciences. Mud crab demonstrates potential as a benchmark for high-quality fishery development when combined with biotechnology, ecological engineering, and systemic innovation across the value chain. Rapeseed oil benefits from rising health consumption, cultural recognition, and segmented demands for cardiovascular health, maternal and infant nutrition, anti-aging, sports, and beauty, especially under “clean label” trends. Mugwort smoke, as an extension of homology, integrates traditional wisdom with modern technology, with active components and mechanisms supporting antimicrobial, immunoregulatory, and preventive functions. With improved safety and standardization, it shows promise in precision medicine and preventive healthcare. These findings highlight how the philosophy of homology of medicine and food can evolve into new productive forces and growth poles for the 21st century, enhancing health literacy, advancing the health industry, and modernizing integrative healing systems.
Homology of medicine and food; economic growth pole; new productive forces; non-pharmaceutical healing; mud crab; rapeseed oil; herbal inhalation
Qu W, Xie D, Li J, Li S, Zhou X, Luo B, Liu S, Guo K, Zhang Y, Jin W,
Tang S. Title Exploring the Economic Growth Poles and the New Productive Forces
for Homology of Medicine and Food: Rational Non-Pharmaceutical Healing
Consumption in the 21st Century. Int. J. Med.Health c. Res., 2025, 3(3), doi:
10.58531/ijmhr/3/3/1