Medicinal food is food with the function of dietetic therapy, which is made by taking medicine and food as materials and processing them through cooking. It is the product of the combination of Chinese traditional medical knowledge and cooking experience. It "has medicine amid food". It not only takes drugs as food, but also endows food with medical use. Medicine borrows the power of food while food supports the power of medicine and turns "good medicine with bitter taste" into "good medicine with nice taste". It has not only nutritional value, but also can prevent and cure diseases, protect health, build up a good physique and prolong life.
Famous Medicinal Dishes:Longan, Tiandong, Maidong and Abolone Soup
Rinse Tiandong, Maidong and longan meat. Soak the abolone in boiling water for three hours, rinse and slice it. Then put all the ingredients in the stewing pot, add an appropriate amount of boiled water and get the lid on. Stew it over a slow fire for three hours and flavor it. Drink the soup and eat the abolone meat. It has the effects of replenishing the kidney, moistening the lung, nourishing yin and clearing heat. It is used for curing syndromes such as cough due to heat, thirst and insomnia caused by upset.
Lean Meat Soup with Dried Turnip:Rinse lean meat and cut it into pieces; rinse dried turnip, coix lacryma-jobi, hawthorn meat; put all the ingredients into the casserole and add an appropriate amount of water; stew and flavor it before taking it. One feed each day. Keep taking it for five days as one period of treatment.
It has the effects of degreasing and whitening. It is applied to oily skin and makes skin white, tender and smooth.
Turtle Meat, Lotus Seed, Gorgon Fruit, Medlar and Lily Soup
Rinse lotus seed, gorgon fruit, medals and lili; kill the turtle, get rid of intestines, rinse it, take the flesh and cut them into pieces; put all the ingredients into the pot and add an appropriate amount of clear water; after boiling it over a quick fire, add rice wine and refined salt; stew it over a slow fire for three more hours till the turtle meat is cooked to mush, and add monosodium glutamate and coriander; drink the soup and eat all the ingredients.
It has the effects of replenishing the spleens, benefiting the kidney, nourishing yin and removing dampness. It is used for curing syndromes such as deficiency of the spleens, diarrhea, prolepses of anus due to dysentery for long, seminal emissions and spermatorrhea etc.
Longevity Soup of Pig\'s Liver:Rinse Baji, dried mushroom, medlar; rinse pig\'s liver and slice it; put all the ingredients in the casserole, add an appropriate amount of clear water, stew it over a slow fire till the pig\'s liver is quite ripe, add a small amount of monosodium glutamate and soy sauce to flavor the soup. Drink the soup and eat pig\'s liver and dried mushrooms. One feed each day.
It has the effects of replenishing the liver, benefiting the kidney, building up the body and prolonging life. It is used for curing the syndromes such as body weakness due to prolonged illness, deficiency of liver and kidney and body weakness due to old age.
Ginseng, Antler and Chicken Soup:Slice ginseng. Rinse chicken, strip its skin and cut it into dices. Put ginseng, chicken and antler slices into the stewing pot, add an appropriate amount of boiled water, get the lid on, stew it for three hours over a slow fire and flavor it.
It has the effects of replenishing vigor, warming kidney and strengthening yang. It is used to cure syndromes such as extreme deficiency of vitality, deficiency and decay of kidney and yang, fear of cold, cold in limbs, impotence, premature ejaculation, sterility due to cold in uterus, frequency of urine and pain in low back and knees.