Medicinal food therapy, a long history, China as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, there is a wealth of knowledge of medicinal food, and the emergence of specialized personnel engaged in the production and application of medicinal food. The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine, which was written during the Warring States period, contains the following words: “Whenever you want to diagnose a disease, you must ask about the diet and the place where you live”, “To treat a disease, you must seek its root”, “Medicine to dispel it, food to follow”. It is also said that “man is based on the five grains”, “heaven eats man with the five gases, earth eats man with the five tastes”, “the five tastes enter the mouth and are hidden in the stomach and intestines”, and “poisons attack evil. Five grains for nourishment, five fruits for help, five animals for benefit, five vegetables for the full, the smell combined and served, in order to replenish the essence and benefit the qi”. Generations of doctors are often used to cure disease and fitness, such as: “Nei Jing” book contains 13 parties, 10 internal medicine, as many as 6 medicinal food; Zhang Zhongjing has “pig skin soup”, “lily chicken soup”, “angelica ginger lamb soup “etc. In addition, the Northern Wei Jie’s “food”, the Liang Dynasty Liu Huo’s “food”, the Tang Dynasty Sun Sisui’s “Qianjin・Food”, etc., are quite famous medicinal food recipes.
Medicinal food is not ordinary nutritional food, but what is called functional food in modern times. Chinese medicine and food matching, you can do the medicine through the taste of food, food to help the medicinal properties, changing the “bitter taste of good medicine” for “good medicine delicious”. Therefore, it is said that Chinese medicine is a delicious food that can give full play to the effectiveness of Chinese medicine, which can especially meet the nature of people who are “averse to medicine but like to eat”, and is a special and popular form of Chinese medicine. It is a special and popular form of Chinese medicine. It will gradually be loved by people all over the world with the international development of Chinese medicine.
Taste of food
Warm foods.
Meat: dog, beef, chicken, turtle, mutton, bird, shrimp, etc.
Vegetables: soybeans, fava beans, carrots, onions, ginger, garlic, peppers, leeks, rape, cilantro, pepper, etc.
Others: brown sugar, glutinous rice, goat’s milk, etc.
Cold foods.
Meat: pork, duck, rabbit, goose, etc.
Vegetables: spinach, cabbage, bean sprouts, celery, cucumber, bitter melon, eggplant, winter melon, purple cabbage, etc.
Fruits: pear, watermelon, tangerine, orange, grapefruit, persimmon.
Others: barley, millet, mung beans, sugar, milk, raw honey, etc.
Foods of flat nature.
Meat: carp meat, cuttlefish meat.
Vegetables: adzuki beans, black beans, string beans, loofah, fungus, lily of the valley, lotus seeds, jujube, cauliflower, potatoes, etc.
Other: duck eggs, yam, almonds, grapes, peaches, figs, etc.
Medicinal recipes
Cuttlebone 30g, Chinese ginseng 30g, yam 30g, with seasoning stewed pig’s hand, suitable for aplastic anemia.
Red date and glutinous rice porridge: 10g of yam, 15g of barley, 10 jujubes, appropriate amount of glutinous rice, cook porridge, suitable for post-illness deficiency and malnutrition.
Radix et Rhizoma Ginseng 6g, Radix et Rhizoma Macrocephalae 10g, Radix et Rhizoma Temporalis 6g, Rice 30g cooked in porridge.
Radix Codonopsis pilosulae 40g, Radix Astragali 30g, Radix Angelicae Sinensis 15g, Jujube 10, stewing lean pork, eating meat and drinking soup, can nourish Qi and blood.
Wu Wei Zi 10, red dates 10, ice sugar, add water and boil together, cure transaminase increase.
Jujube and sheep bone porridge: 1 to 2 sheep shin bones (pounded), 20 jujubes, 50 to 100 grams of glutinous rice, cook thin porridge, salt to taste, eat in portions, treat aplastic anemia and thrombocytopenic purpura.
Panax ginseng powder 2g, taken in chicken broth, 1 to 2 times daily, for treating deficiency of qi and blood, less energy and weakness, and lack of facial color.
Bletus splendens 10g, add water, boil lotus root slices, serve lotus root slices cold, add rock sugar to soup and serve.