Chinese herbal medicines and foods used in medicated diet should be carefully selected. First of all, clean it, make it clean, without impurities, foreign bodies, dust and mildew. Also pay attention to its pure color and taste, beautiful appearance and excellent quality. Such as jujube, it is better to be big, purple, thick, smooth and moth-free, not small, reddish, thin or afraid of insects; Lycium barbarum with large grain, thick meat, few seeds, red color and soft quality is better, while Lycium barbarum with small grain, more meat and more seeds is worse, so it is not suitable for use.

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. Such as hawthorn, fried into burnt hawthorn, which can strengthen the spleen and help digestion; Stir-fried hawthorn charcoal can stop diarrhea. Some medicinal materials must be processed to reduce their toxicity or side effects, such as Radix Aconiti Lateralis and Jiang Banxia.

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Traditional Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine, which generally have no unpleasant smell, can be cooked (or ground into fine powder) with food. If there are many drugs or have obvious unpleasant smell, you can wrap the drugs in gauze and cook them with food, and the properties of the drugs will enter the food or soup. Remove residues when taking. You can also decoct the traditional Chinese medicine first, filter the decoction, remove the residue, and then add the decoction to the food cooking process to cook together. In order to reduce the destruction of nutrients and effective components, the cooking of medicated diet mostly uses steaming, stewing, boiling or soup, while frying and baking are less used.