Chinese Medicinal Food [Pasta]

Chinese medicinal food

First, Chinese medicinal diet has a long history

The history of Chinese medicinal diet has a long history, and it is recorded in the classics nearly 2,000 years ago: "Mother adjusts medicinal food, and her thoughts are dense." (The Book of the Later Han Dynasty, Biography of The Daughters) It can be seen that the Han Dynasty already had historical facts about the application of medicinal food. After successive generations of research and improvement, it has developed into a practical nutrition discipline of traditional Chinese medicine, or "traditional Chinese medicine nutrition". It not only lays the foundation for the traditional medicine of the Chinese nation to be "medicine and food homologous", but also has the significance of population prevention and clinical treatment of diseases. At the same time, it also contains the excellent culture of the Chinese nation and the profound national essence. Not only has it become a means of health maintenance for all ethnic groups in the motherland, but in modern times this theory and technique has spread to many parts of the world, such as the middle of the population in neighboring countries in Southeast Asia, who love medicinal food. Chinese medicinal food, across the ocean, first east to Japan and Southeast Asia and other countries, and then to the western European continent, won the favor of people in foreign countries. In modern times, various regions in China have held a different type of conference such as dietary therapy and health rehabilitation in 2 to 3 years, and in 1989, China and Japan held the first international event in Beijing, followed by the first Asian medicinal diet conference held in Beijing in 1993.

Second, the classification of medicinal dietary therapy

The classification of medicinal dietary therapy has a huge and complex phenomenon in history, and scholars have expressed their own opinions, some from the corner of dietary therapy

Degree classification, some from the cooking method classification, some from the application of disease classification, but with the development of contemporary medicine and food industry, the classification of medicinal dietary therapy is also progressing. The classification method closer to its function (function) is more reasonable in my opinion.

(1) Health care drugs and dietary products

This kind of food is for different conditions of the human body, throwing different food diets, so as to achieve the maintenance of body health and chronic diseases for early recovery. For example, obese people can use weight loss products, emaciated people can use fattening food, poor intelligence can use intellectual, force-enhancing medicinal diet, poor vision can choose blind products, deaf people can use deaf medicinal food, requiring beauty black hair, there are corresponding meals.

(2) Preventive medicinal diets

For example, if the climate is volatile in spring and often suffers from colds, you can take the corresponding preventive medicinal diet to prevent it; in summer, you can use purslane porridge defense; in order to prevent heat stroke, you can use soup to play its function of both heat and heat and moisture; autumn is dry, respiratory susceptibility is strong, you can use shellfish diet defense; winter cold, you can use angelica astragalus medicinal diet to resist the cold and enhance the body's resistance.

(3) Rehabilitation medicinal diet

After a serious illness in the human body, the body is weak, you can use the fuzheng solid this type of medicinal food to promote early recovery, such as ginseng formula; if you have chronic diseases and qi and blood deficiency, you can apply red date soup, or roast lamb heart, etc. to promote recovery; those who usually show yang deficiency can choose angelica stew, good stew, etc.; such as yin deficiency can take yin nourishing products (such as sand ginseng jade bamboo porridge and the like), so that the body from the third state to a healthy physique.

(4) Therapeutic medicinal diet

This type of diet is a dialectical diet for a certain disease in order to achieve the improvement of pathological changes or the possibility of recovery. For example, if it is found that there are malnourished patients, it can be treated with poria soup to supplement high-quality protein, so that the plasma protein concentration can quickly increase to a certain level, so as to obtain the purpose of swelling reduction. Another example is the cough of the lungs through weakness and cold, and the sputum clearing and antitussive cough can be used to obtain curative effect. If you suffer from gastrointestinal fever and constipation, choose skullcap cream tea to clear heat and laxative the intestines, and the effect is good.

In addition, there is another classification in contemporary times, "bioengineering food", which is the use of biotechnology to develop a new type of nutrition and healthy people to eat food, "natural health food", is based on traditional medicinal diet, supplemented by modern processing of nourishing food, can promote the patient or the third state of the person to recover its function, "strong beauty food", both to enhance physical fitness, but also to protect skin health, and foreign countries name such meals as "healthy diet".

Third, the choice of raw materials for medicinal food

Medicinal-food and medicinal foods are a wide source of raw materials for medicinal dietary options, and the number of dried fruits used in actual cooking

The list goes on. According to historical records, in the book "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" written by The Han Dynasty physician Zhang Zhongjing, there were as many as 58 prescriptions for jujube as a medicinal raw material. In the "Compendium of Materia Medica" by the Great Pharmacist Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty, nineteen prescriptions were included under the jujube entry, which shows the importance of its medicinal and food use.

(1) Selection of medicinal dietary raw materials in a broad sense

All the foods used in daily people's diet are all optional raw materials for medicinal diets, whether they are grains, or beans, small grains, fruits and dried fruits, and various types of vegetables, which can be used as the selection of dietary therapy and medicinal diet. In addition, animals, livestock or aquatic seafood in the animal category are all in the range of selected ingredients.

(2) Selection of medicinal diet raw materials in the narrow sense

In this kind of raw materials, it often involves chinese herbal medicines and food products, such as foods that are used in daily life, but also medicinal medicines for kidney and spleen, shellfish, bitter after concoction, it has become an effective medicinal diet for expectorant and cough suppression. It is processed from donkey skin, and the mateus has a good blood nourishing and cosmetic effect. Looking at the medicinal and food raw materials of Chinese herbal medicine, there are no less than 200 kinds, and according to studies, there are generally more than 600 kinds of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines, of which 1/2 is edible products. Then, when other foods are compatible and processed into medicinal food, their types are quite considerable and varied.

(3) Seasonings and beverage raw materials

People's daily life used sugar, wine, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, etc. are medicinal food ingredients, especially beverages and alcohol, is an indispensable raw material for pharmaceutical food, all kinds of flavors are compatible with condiments in medicinal food, and can increase the delicious taste of medicinal food, and can improve the function of the finished product of medicinal food, so it is especially appreciated. All kinds of honey and sucrose are good products used in the production process of medicinal food. In addition, non-sucrose sweeteners, such as eggs, stevia, etc. are new condiments specially made by modern science, and the actual use in medicinal diets can be said to have a great effect on adding brilliance to medicinal diets, because some people (diabetics, etc.) contraindicate sugar or do not want to eat sugar, there is more than one type of flavoring choice.

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