China's medicated diet has a long history, and the application of medicated diet dates back to the Han Dynasty. According to historical records, in Treatise on Febrile Diseases written by Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage in Han Dynasty, there are as many as 58 kinds of prescriptions with jujube as the raw material for medicine. In Compendium of Materia Medica written by Li Shizhen, a famous pharmacist in Ming Dynasty, there are 19 prescriptions under the jujube entry, which shows the importance of homology of medicine and food. After the research and improvement of past dynasties, it has developed into a practical nutrition subject of traditional Chinese medicine, or "traditional Chinese medicine nutrition".
It not only lays a health care foundation of "homology of medicine and food" for the traditional medical treatment of the Chinese nation, but also has the significance of crowd prevention and clinical treatment of diseases. At the same time, it also contains the excellent culture and profound national quintessence of the Chinese nation. Not only has it become a means of health preservation for all ethnic groups in the motherland, but this theory and skill have spread to many parts of the world since modern times, for example, people in neighboring countries in Southeast Asia are very fond of medicated diet.
Selection of raw materials:
Medicinal and edible food is a wide source of raw materials for medicinal diet, and there are countless dried fruits used in actual cooking. All foods used in people's daily diet belong to the optional raw materials of medicinal diet, whether it is whole grains, beans, minor grains, fruits and their dried fruits, and various vegetables, they can be used as optional materials for dietotherapy and medicinal diet. In addition, animals, domestic animals or aquatic products and seafood are all within the scope of material selection.
In this kind of raw materials, the dual-purpose products of Chinese herbal medicines are often involved. For example, yam is not only a food used in daily life, but also a medicinal material for invigorating kidney and spleen. Fritillaria and bitter almond are processed into effective medicated diets for eliminating phlegm and relieving cough. Colla Corii Asini takes donkey skin as raw material and is compatible with black-bone chicken, which has good effects of enriching blood, nourishing blood and beautifying.
Sugar, wine, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and so on. People use all the ingredients of medicated diet in their daily life, especially drinks and wine, which are essential raw materials for making medicated diet. The mixture of spices and condiments in medicated diet can increase the delicacy of medicated diet and improve the function of finished products, so it is especially appreciated by people. All kinds of honey and sucrose are the best products used in the process of making medicated diet. In addition, non-sucrose sweeteners, such as aspartame and stevia, are all new condiments made by modern science.