How do I translate "both medicines and foods have common origin"? I am trying to translate the sentence


  both medicines and foods have common origin


into simplified Chinese using different translation apps etc. and get weirdly different answers.
"both medicines and foods have common origin"


It is called 医食同源, and it is a common expression (more literary).

In colloquial form, it would be "医药与食物有共通的源头"

Medicines can be food; Food can be medicines