Chinese Medicated Diet
(Selected from Dr. Boping Wu)
Two Types of Medicated Diet
Dietetic Chinese herbs and medicated diet for dietetic treatment.
Dietetic Chinese herbs, also known as "edible Chinese herb," "dietetic materia medica" or "medicinal food," refer to drink and food which can be used either for prevention and cure of diseases, or for health care and recovery.
Dietetic Chinese herbs of this type include cereals, fruits, nuts, vegetables, seasonings, birds and animals, aquatic products and so on, but 70 kinds will be discussed in this book.
Medicated diet for dietetic therapy is a diet made from salutary drugs, food and condiments. Concretely speaking, medicated diet can be prepared either from edible Chinese drugs alone, or from Chinese crude drugs and food according to certain prescriptions, by processing and cooking. In light of its form and process, medicated diet can be divided into eleven kinds: Fresh juice, medicated tea, drink, medicated wine, decoction, medicated gruel, honey extract, medicated cake, medicated pancake, soups.
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