Edible medicinal food to tell the principle

      The traditional Chinese medicinal food is not simple addition of food and Chinese medicine in TCM syndrome differentiation, but distinguish theory guidance, by drug, food and condiment three and refined a both drug efficacy, and a food delicious, used to cure diseases, strengthen the special food for life. If do not have medical knowledge and blind making or edible medicinal food supplements, will inevitably astray.

      Medicinal food is different from the general diet, application must pay attention to the sexual flavour, Chinese dietotherapy medicinal food of appropriate avoid, material and machining, cooking techniques, and also to grasp the basic principle of medicinal food application.

       Pay attention to integral dialectical mess

      When in use medicinal food the first consideration, its own constitution, health and seasonal season, geographical environment, and judge the aspects of basic card type, then determines the corresponding dietotherapy principles.

      In the treatment of medicinal herbs, attention should be paid to the sexual flavour soreness. Generally speaking, warm sex, thermal dietotherapy herbal medicines, such as ginger, Onions, red jujube, walnut, mutton, cummin with temperature, the scattered cold, help Yang, the function, and can be used to treat cold syndrome, Yin syndrome; Cool, cold sex dietotherapy Chinese traditional medicine, such as beans, lotus root and watermelon, pear, BiJi, portulaca, chrysanthemum, has clear heat, purging fire, cool blood, detoxification effect, can be used to treat heat syndromes, Yang syndrome.

      It tastes sour taste for traditional Chinese medicine, such as diet, ebony, pomegranate, can convergence, solid acerbity; Bitter medicine, such as balsam pear, soreness almond can clear away heat, fall gas, purging fire, dry wet; Chinese herbal medicines, such as jujube soreness grape, honey, YiTang, can for reconciliation, priorities, pain; Michael essien flavour, such as ginger, Chinese dietotherapy lengthwise, have divergent and line gas and other action; Chinese herbal medicines, such as salty dietotherapy algal, kelp, etc is able to soft firm estate; Mild dietotherapy TCM can ooze urine, such as tuckahoe, the YiRen kindhearted.

     Medicine delicious take feed convenient

     The medicinal use for food and medicine, the product, and have the food such as colour, fragrance and taste character; Even joined the part of medicinal herbs, due to the attention of the drug sexual flavour with food choices, through the deployment is still can be made into delicious medicinal food.

      Medicinal food cooking, mainly "stew, boil, simmer, steamed" give priority to, finally can become "soup" that can make the drug and food in a long time heated process, utmost ground release effective ingredients, enhance the efficacy. Medicinal food cooking characteristics is to take drugs and foods mainly authentic, do provide already, and boosting role with characteristic, delicious dishes induced the appetite of people, so as to achieve the exact effect.

     Optimization raw materials for Chinese medicine scientific cooking

     The choose and buy must be fresh herbs is high quality, whatever metamorphism, moldy all can't be eaten. The medicinal herbs and food first used to clean, clean choose, without impurities, no dust, no foreign mildewing decay, must pay attention to its color, taste pure, beautiful shape, the quality is fine.

     To ensure the medicinal food curative effect, we should conduct necessary medicinal and food processing. Some need to slice, shredded, slices or cut into sections, some need for fine crushing and others should be made according to the requirements of TCM firing, in order to reduce its processing processing toxic or side effects.

      Excellent medicinal food must pay attention to cooking. General edible and free of traditional Chinese medicine of traditional Chinese medicine, can smell discomfort with food cooked, if drugs more or have apparently unwell odour, usable gauze will drug wrapped, again, with food cooked food or medicinal namely into the soup, food served to remove liquid. Also can first will Chinese medicine decoction, filtration take medicine juice, slag in food preparation process, then add medicine juice, reduce nutrition and effective component damage.

      Moderate persistence are offered

     "Abstemious" is the principle of TCM important medicinal and health care, diet should also moderate with correctness. In the short term is unfavorable take food overmuch, not eager to hope for success. According to its own condition should be small, often take feed, perserve, time will be able to work.

     For no sick can be appropriately eating certain health care regimen meals. For frail or diseased shall also medicine cure, and cooperate with medicinal food therapy. And in disease and rehabilitation of some chronic disease, or may be more appropriate modulation with medicinal food. It is worth noting, though there are many benefits medicinal, but its pertinence and therapeutic effect than drugs, only two cooperate to apply, supplement each other, to get better effect. (GuoQingWei)