(1) gruel:
It is a semi-liquid food made of japonica rice, glutinous rice, millet and corn. And other foods or Chinese medicines. If the added food or traditional Chinese medicine should not be cooked together (if there is residue), it can be decocted with water to get juice first, fresh products can also be ground, and traditional Chinese medicine can be decocted separately to get juice; If it is not easy to cook soft and thoroughly, you can add water to cook thoroughly first. In this way, it is processed separately and then cooked with grain. Porridge has a wide range of foods, such as vegetables, dried and fresh fruits, meat and so on. And their flavor and taste are very different. You can add sugar, salt, oil and monosodium glutamate to make different flavors. Because of the diversity of raw materials, the formula of porridge has many different functions, such as nourishing, purging and cooling, such as mutton porridge, rehmannia porridge, galangal porridge, fennel porridge, celery porridge, lotus leaf porridge and so on. Therefore, porridge has a wide range of applications, and many diseases can find corresponding porridge prescriptions regardless of deficiency, excess, cold and heat. This is a widely used diet therapy.
(2) Rice:
Mainly based on japonica rice and glutinous rice, adding fruits or traditional Chinese medicines, such as jujube, longan, codonopsis pilosula and yam. The range of raw materials used in rice is relatively narrow, and its main functions are invigorating qi, strengthening spleen and nourishing blood, such as ginseng jujube rice, coix seed lotus leaf rice and so on.
(3) dishes:
There are many kinds of dishes, and the raw materials used are extremely extensive. Different dishes are very different: in order to narrow down the scope as much as possible, soup dishes are not included here. Even so, its raw materials are still widely involved in vegetables, fruits, meat, fish, shrimp, eggs and so on. Cooking methods include frying, frying, marinating, roasting, steaming, cold salad, etc., and seasonings are salty, sweet, sour, spicy and fragrant. Therefore, dishes are not a single diet. Generally speaking, meat, fish, eggs and other dishes tend to be tonic; Vegetables are often cold.
(4) soup:
It is made of meat, eggs, fish, vegetables and other foods, mixed with other foods or traditional Chinese medicines, and cooked by frying or stewing. According to the taste and performance of food, appropriate amount of sugar or salt, soy sauce, ginger, pepper and other condiments can be added. Soup mainly has the function of nourishing or moistening dryness, such as yam mutton soup can tonify spleen and kidney, carp jujube soup can tonify spleen and blood, winter sunflower egg soup can clear away heat and moisten dryness, and tremella decoction can nourish the yin of lung and stomach.
(5) Tea and drinks:
Tea is a unique beverage, which is made by soaking tea leaves. Tea has different names and flavors because of its different quality and processing methods. Even so, tea has the functions of clearing away heat, removing annoyance and diuresis.
In addition to tea, beverages are generally made of fragrant and slightly bitter flowers, raw materials for tea replacement, or sweet and sour fruits, as well as traditional Chinese medicines, which are fried in water or soaked in boiling water, distilled, etc. for drinking or tea replacement. Fresh and juicy fruits, stems and leaves or root tubers can also be chopped or mashed, wrapped with clean gauze and juiced; Or juice with utensils, drink fresh, or add some honey and sugar to taste. Besides cold drinks, warm clothes can also be heated. Aromatic, slightly bitter flowers, stems, leaves, etc. You can soak it or distill it to get dew. Generally suitable for cold drinks.
In addition, instant drinks are usually made from food or traditional Chinese medicine by decocting, removing residues, concentrating, adding sugar powder to make dry granules, and then taking them with boiling water.
As can be seen from the above, drinks are also diverse, with different names due to different raw materials and production methods: if they are made of tea, they are called tea; Tea with substitute tea as raw material is called raw tea; The distillate of raw materials made by distillation is called the dew of the raw materials; Instant drinks, mostly expressed in usage, or granules; In addition, they are generally called drinks, or drinks.
Most beverages have the functions of clearing away heat, promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, promoting diuresis, expelling wind and relieving exterior syndrome, such as Gynostemma pentaphyllum tea, five-juice beverage, dark plum and Ophiopogon japonicus beverage, reed root beverage, honeysuckle dew, wild rose dew, mulberry tea and so on. However, some drinks are mild or warm in nature and have different functions from the above, such as hawthorn and cassia seed drinks, peanut pulp, astragalus and jujube instant drinks and so on.
(6) Soups and drinks:
Drinking soup was called "soup" in ancient times, so it is called drinking soup here in order not to be mixed with the soup of soup dishes. It takes food or food and traditional Chinese medicine as raw materials. Decoct in water, and filter to obtain decoction. Generally, it should be decocted for 3 ~ 4 times, and the decoctions should be filtered separately for each time, and decocted together for 3 or more times. So it can also be considered as a hot drink or something. The difference between soup and ordinary drinks is that the raw materials used are not limited by ordinary drinks, and most of them are suitable for decoction, but it is not easy to leach its effective substances, such as ginger, jujube, Polygonum Multiflori Radix Preparata and Astragalus. Tangyin is mostly used to prevent and treat diseases, and has many functions such as relieving exterior syndrome, clearing away heat, promoting fluid production and tonifying deficiency, such as onion and black bean soup, Qinglong Baihu soup, Shashen Maidong soup, Baoyuan soup, ginseng and walnut soup, etc.
(7) Alcohol:
Dietetic wine is mainly soaked wine, which is made by soaking food directly with white wine or yellow wine or by mixing food with traditional Chinese medicine. If necessary, it can also be heated and soaked in water. Filtering the soaked wine, and taking clear liquid for later use; A small amount of soaked people can also take the clarified part to drink at any time. It can also be made by steaming glutinous rice with other sugary foods and traditional Chinese medicines and adding distiller's yeast for fermentation. Most soaked wines have high alcohol content, while fermented wines have slightly lower alcohol content, but low alcohol content is always good. Because the wine itself has the characteristics of promoting blood circulation, dispelling cold, assisting medicine, being easy to store and drink at any time, it is made into wines with the functions of promoting blood circulation, dredging collaterals, expelling wind and removing dampness, strengthening yang and benefiting qi, such as angelica wine, papaya barley wine, acanthopanax senticosus wine, chinese wolfberry wine and so on.
(8) ointment:
Mainly choose nourishing and strong food and traditional Chinese medicine, and decoct with water for several times to get juice. When the obtained juice is boiled again until it is thick, the same amount of boiled honey or sugar (rock sugar) is added and boiled together to obtain a paste. This paste can be eaten directly or dissolved in boiling water. It mainly has the functions of nourishing and tonifying deficiency, moistening dryness and promoting fluid production, moistening lung and relieving cough, such as Mulberry Cream and Chuanbei Sydney Cream.
(9) Pastry:
Seeds, nuts and traditional Chinese medicines that are easily ground into powder, such as japonica rice, glutinous rice, coix seed, poria cocos, yam, etc. Grind into powder, add water and sugar and knead into powder. For those inconvenient to be ground into powder, such as ginseng, codonopsis pilosula, malt, orange peel, etc., they can be decocted to get juice and then added. After molding, the kneaded dough is steamed in a steamer and cut into blocks or strips for eating. Pastry mainly has the functions of invigorating qi and spleen, nourishing and tonifying deficiency, such as Yangchun White Ice Cream, Eight Immortals Cake and Nine Immortals Cake.
(10) Rice flour food:
It refers to all kinds of meals made of rice, flour and dried beans as the main raw materials, or other foods and traditional Chinese medicines except porridge, rice and cakes. There are mainly the following kinds: powder (paste) baked with the above raw materials until half cooked, ground and cooked with boiling water, such as fat powder, longevity powder, coix seed paste and peanut paste; Pastries baked or fried with food such as flour or traditional Chinese medicine as the main raw materials, such as Jianpi cake and perilla pancake; Knead flour and other water into dough, wrap meat or vegetable stuffing into steamed bread, and steam cooked food, such as Poria steamed bread and bean paste steamed bread; Flour is used to make wonton with flour, meat stuffing or vegetable stuffing, such as chicken wonton and Jiaojiang wonton; Noodles made by mixing flour with other foods or traditional Chinese medicines, such as yam noodles and bitter noodles.
(1 1) Candy:
The preparation method comprises decocting white sugar or crystal sugar, maltose and brown sugar in water until it becomes thick, adding juice or coarse powder of other foods or traditional Chinese medicines, stirring uniformly, decocting until silky and not sticky, cooling, and cutting into pieces. Some add nuts, preserved fruits and so on. Stir the boiled sugar evenly, shape, and cut into pieces after cooling: candy is used for chewing, and some may contain swallowed food, such as pear milk candy, mint candy, sesame candy, walnut candy, etc.