Green Card Turtle and Tortoise Diet and Medicinal Cuisine Collection

Author: Zhou Guoxiong
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: Food therapy and medicinal dietetics are treasures of Chinese historical culture, a discipline that is both ancient and emerging in practicality. Ancient medicine held high regard for food therapy and medicinal dietetics. The use of medicine was not limited to treating diseases through decoctions; it also involved studying the combination of medicine and dietetics to create exquisite food ingredients that are rich in nutrients, delicious, and contain various healing Chinese herbal medicine components, working together to achieve the goals of health preservation, disease prevention, treatment, and longevity. This book collects more than 280 soup recipes for food therapy and medicinal dietetics using tortoises and softshells, describing their cooking methods, efficacy, and indications. The use of tortoises and softshells in food therapy has a long history. It explains traditional Chinese medicine's discussions and applications of tortoises and softshells, modern medical research on them, their applications in food therapy and medicinal dietetics, precautions, as well as the food therapy and medicinal dietetics, efficacy, and cooking methods of tortoises and softshells.