Home nourishing medicine porridge

Author: Zhang Jialin
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Publish Date: 2003-03-01
Features: In China, the use of food to treat diseases has a history of at least 4,500 years. Achieving the purpose of preventing and treating diseases through various uniquely flavored diets is vastly different from taking bitter medicine, which leaves a completely different psychological impression. Since psychological factors play a close role in health and disease recovery, many traditional dietary therapy formulas have been passed down for thousands of years and widely used. Congee is one of the traditional foods favored by the Chinese people. With its numerous varieties, simple cooking method, rich nutrition, and easy digestibility, it has an irresistible appeal. Combining the principles of food preventing and treating diseases with people's favorite congee is a practical embodiment of the theory of "food and medicine being of the same origin" in daily life. This book attempts to present profound traditional medicine in the form of congee on the dining tables of ordinary people. Its purpose is to help people achieve the effects of preventing and treating diseases unconsciously through their three daily meals. At a low cost, it yields great benefits.