Medicinal diet is a kind of food which combines medicine with food and is carefully cooked. It is both nutritious and effective. From the point of view of nutrition, medicated diet is more powerful than ordinary food, and it has the characteristics of paying attention to the whole and weaving syndromes.

Medicinal diet is a particularly important classification and link in Chinese medicine theory. It is characterized by treating various uncomfortable symptoms in the human body according to the analysis of the nature of ingredients and herbs in traditional Chinese medicine and the study of human physique. Therefore, many people who know and want to master the methods of health preservation are aiming at learning the ratio of medicinal food and how to make it.

Most of the drugs used in medicated diet are mild and mild. After special treatment, they not only retain the effective components and functions, but also remove most of the odor. Coupled with superb cooking skills, every medicated diet has become a unique delicacy. Medicinal diet is widely used in daily life, and people can cook at home.

The so-called "paying attention to the whole" and "dialectical feeding" means that when using medicated diet, we should first comprehensively analyze the patient's physique, health status, disease nature, season, geographical environment and other aspects to judge its basic syndrome types; Then determine the corresponding dietotherapy principles, pay attention to dialectical materials, and give appropriate medicated diet treatment. For example, patients with chronic gastritis, if the syndrome is stomach cold, should take good porridge; For patients with insufficient stomach yin, Yumei residue can be taken. Anyone with qi deficiency should use qi-invigorating medicated diet; Anyone with blood deficiency should be treated with blood-enriching medicated diet. As an auxiliary therapy, drugs and medicated diet complement each other and have the same effect.

For the sick, medicine should be used first, and medicated diet should be combined with conditioning, and the two should be applied at the same time to complement each other in order to achieve the ideal effect; For some patients with chronic diseases in recovery period, it is more suitable to use medicated diet for treatment; For people with weak constitution, some health-care medicated diets can be properly eaten to prevent diseases and strengthen the body.