Homestyle Health-preserving Recipes

Author: Lin Qiuxiang
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Publish Date: 2002-07-01
Features: Traditional Chinese Medicine's dietary therapy utilizes the principle of "medicinal food homology," leveraging the pharmacological effects of food to promote health, wellness, and treat diseases. Dietary therapy has a long history in China. The Shen Nong's Herbal Classic listed jujubes, lotus seeds, honey, Chinese yam, longan meat, salt, and scallions as medicinal herbs for treating illnesses; the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon also documented the use of medicinal diets for healing. The renowned physician Zhang Zhongjing, during the late Han Dynasty, included ginger, jujubes, lamb, and wheat in his therapeutic prescriptions. The famous medical expert Sun Simiao in the Tang Dynasty further elaborated on dietary therapy in the "Food Therapy" volume of his Essential Prescriptions for Emergencies, introducing the medicinal properties of over one hundred different foods. This book introduces 36 exquisite health-preserving and wellness-promoting recipes for general households, accompanied by simple and easy-to-understand preparation instructions and health suggestions.