Geographically, Lingnan culture can be divided into three parts: Pearl River culture, Guangxi culture and Hainan culture, with the Pearl River culture (that is, today's Guangdong culture) as the main body. Lingnan Chinese medicine culture is an important school with characteristics in Chinese medicine culture. Its theoretical system, principles, methods and prescriptions are in the same strain as Central Plains medicine. It has the courage to absorb folk medical experience and new foreign medical knowledge, make full use of local medicinal resources, and formed a doctor's style and medication habits with distinctive local characteristics. Lingnan people have always believed in Chinese medicine, commonly used Chinese medicine, and have the traditional habit of drinking herbal tea and cooking old fire soup. All these have laid a good theoretical foundation for Lingnan medicated diet culture.
Lingnan medicinal diet is an important part of China medicinal diet culture, which is unique because of the influence of Lingnan's special geographical environment and humanistic environment. Its forms are rich and varied. According to the nature of raw materials and production methods, it can be roughly divided into rice flour food, dishes, porridge food, cakes, soup, drinks, preserves and other categories. Among them, the most representative and influential varieties are herbal tea and old fire soup.
There is a folk saying that "Guangdong's three treasures: roasted goose, litchi and herbal tea shop". Herbal tea culture has a long history and folk connotation. Decoction is also a pearl in Lingnan medicated diet culture. In the historical accumulation of soup culture in China, there are soups with their own characteristics everywhere, but the soup in Guangdong is the most abundant, and it is well-known at home and abroad as "Old Fire Soup". Some people say that "Lao Huo Tang is the essence of Guangdong culture and a magic weapon for Cantonese people to keep healthy". Guangdong people love soup so much, which has a lot to do with the hot and humid regional environment.
Guangdong laohuotang has a wide selection of ingredients, paying attention to the collocation of ingredients and nutrition; Good at matching traditional Chinese medicine according to human needs, and should be supplemented quarterly. He often adds Chinese herbal medicines with Lingnan characteristics, such as Lady Enforcers, Abrus cantonensis, Guangkunbu and Longliye. In addition, he often uses some medicinal materials such as Radix Astragali, Radix Codonopsis, Radix Adenophorae, Rhizoma Dioscoreae, Fructus Lycii, Fructus Jujubae, Radix Ginseng, and Radix Panacis Quinquefolii. Laohuo soup mostly uses clay pots, casseroles and casseroles as cooking containers, following the traditional and unique cooking methods, which not only retains the original flavor of the ingredients, but also has the effects of regulating the influence of climate on people, regulating physique and nourishing the body.
Traditional Chinese medicine is commonly used in medicated diet, accounting for 865,438+0.5%. Sweet products are easily accepted by the public in taste. At the same time, sweet herbs can tonify, harmonize and slow down, and have the functions of nourishing and tonifying deficiency, harmonizing medicinal properties and relieving pain. According to the classification of traditional Chinese medicine, tonics are the most, followed by blood tonic. Some tonics include tonics for yang, tonics for yin, drugs for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, drugs for promoting diuresis and eliminating dampness, astringents, drugs for warming interior, drugs for relieving exterior syndrome, drugs for clearing heat, drugs for regulating qi and drugs for promoting digestion. There are no rheumatism-removing drugs, hemostatic drugs, cough and asthma-relieving drugs, etc.