1. In medicated diet therapy, we should not only pay attention to the sexual taste of non-dietetic Chinese herbal medicines, but also pay attention to the sexual taste of dietetic 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.

2. As far as the five flavors are concerned, sour Chinese herbal medicines, such as ebony and pomegranate, can 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.

3. 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.