When using medicated diet, we should first consider our own physique, health status, season, geographical environment and other aspects, judge its basic syndrome types, and then determine the corresponding therapeutic principles.
In medicated diet therapy, we should not only pay attention to the sexual taste of non-therapeutic Chinese herbal medicines, but also pay attention to the sexual taste of therapeutic Chinese herbal medicines. Generally speaking, Chinese herbs for warm diet, such as ginger, scallion, red dates, walnuts, mutton and fennel, have the functions of warming the interior, dispelling cold and helping yang, and can be used to treat cold syndrome and yin syndrome; Chinese herbal medicines for cooling diet, such as mung bean, lotus root, watermelon, pear, water chestnut, purslane and chrysanthemum, have the functions of clearing away heat and purging fire, cooling blood and detoxifying, and can be used for treating heat syndrome and yang syndrome.
As far as the five flavors are concerned, sour Chinese herbal medicines, such as ebony and pomegranate, can converge and converge; Bitter Chinese medicines, such as bitter gourd and almond, can clear away heat and reduce qi, purge fire and dry dampness; Sweet dietetic Chinese medicines, such as jujube, honey and maltose, can nourish, reconcile and relieve pain; Spicy Chinese herbal medicines, such as ginger and scallion, have the function of dispersing stagnation and promoting qi circulation; Salty dietotherapy traditional Chinese medicines, such as seaweed and kelp, can soften hard mass and disperse hard mass; Mild dietetic Chinese medicines, such as Poria cocos and Coix lachryma, can ooze urine.
Medicinal diet is mostly used as medicine and food, which has the characteristics of color, fragrance and taste of food; Even if some medicinal materials are added, due to the emphasis on the choice of medicinal properties and tastes, delicious medicated diet can still be made by mixing with food.
The cooking of medicated diet is mainly "stewing, boiling, stewing and steaming", which can eventually become "soup", so that drugs and food can be heated for a long time, and the effective components can be released to the maximum extent to enhance the efficacy. Medicinal diet cooking is characterized by the original flavor of medicine and food, which can not only achieve nourishing effect, but also make dishes delicious, thus inducing people's appetite and achieving exact results.
The selection of medicinal materials also pays attention to the principle of "syndrome differentiation and treatment". According to the combination of people's physique and food and their own medicinal properties, medicinal materials must be fresh and high quality, and anything that goes bad and moldy can't be eaten. Chinese herbal medicines and foods used in medicated diet should be selected first, so as to be clean, free from impurities, foreign bodies, dust and mildew, and pay attention to their pure color and taste, beautiful appearance and good quality.
In order to ensure the curative effect of medicated diet, it is necessary to process medicinal materials and food. Some need to be sliced, shredded, diced or cut into sections, some need to be crushed into fine powder, and some need to be processed according to the requirements of traditional Chinese medicine processing to reduce its toxicity or side effects.
Good medicated diet must pay attention to cooking skills. Generally, traditional Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine without bad smell can be cooked with food. If there are many drugs or have obvious unpleasant smell, the drugs can be wrapped in gauze and cooked with food, and the drug will enter the food or soup, and the residue should be removed when taking. You can also decoct the traditional Chinese medicine first, filter the juice to remove the residue, and then add the juice in the cooking process of food to reduce the destruction of nutrition and effective components.
"Moderate diet" is an important principle of TCM health care, and medicinal diet should also be moderate and temperate. It is not advisable to overeat in the short term, and you should not rush for success. Should be based on their own situation, often eat a small amount, perseverance, over time will be effective.
For non-patient groups, some healthy diets can be properly eaten. For people who are weak or sick, they should also be treated with drugs, supplemented by medicated diet. In the recovery period of the disease or for some patients with chronic diseases, it may be more appropriate to use medicated diet for treatment. It is worth noting that although medicated diet has many benefits, its pertinence and therapeutic effect are far less than that of drugs. The combination of the two can complement each other and achieve better results.