Illustrated Chinese Diet and Health Encyclopedia

Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes that "medicine and food come from the same source", and medicated diet is the health care method that best embodies this concept. Medicine is used as food, and food is given medicinal effects. Medicine borrows food power, and food helps medicine. This kind of special food that combines medicine and food can not only fill the stomach, but also maintain health. This book explains 1,000 classic medicated diets in detail. It selects medicated diets that are practical, effective and convenient for home preparation based on the nature of the disease. It details the applicable groups, usage and contraindications, preparation methods, efficacy of medicated diets, etc. You can comprehensively grasp the properties of foods and drugs based on your physical fitness, nature of the disease, and the characteristics of the four seasons. You can make reasonable choices and scientific combinations to change "good medicines that are bitter" to "good medicines that are delicious" and build a healthy defense line for your body. Zhang Zhongjing, a great physician of the Eastern Han Dynasty, said: "Some of the tastes of food are suitable for the disease, and some are harmful to the disease. If it is suitable, it will benefit the body, and if it is harmful, it will cause the disease." It can be seen that dietary therapy for syndromes is of great significance for the recovery of diseases. This book breaks down 80 types of dietary therapies based on seasons, diseases, groups of people, health care functions, etc., Allowing you to easily understand the causes of various diseases, master the principles of correct dietary selection, treat diseases when they are sick, and strengthen your body without diseases.