Medicine in Food - A Popular Treasury of Food and Medicine

Author: Wang Deshun
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Features: Traditional Chinese medicine holds that balance is health, and regulation is the treatment of diseases, thus placing great emphasis on the preventive and therapeutic effects of food. The reason why food has preventive and therapeutic effects is that, like medicine, it possesses various properties such as different flavors, meridian tropism, ascending and descending, floating and sinking, tonifying and draining, and toxicity or non-toxicity. The multiple properties of food must be combined and flexibly applied to achieve the goal of "curing diseases through diet." This book is divided into two parts. The first part is the "Medicinal Uses of Food," which categorizes food into grains, legumes, vegetables, fruits, meats, eggs, dairy products, aquatic products, and flowers, respectively describing their nutritional characteristics, medicinal properties, and simple dietary therapy recipes. The second part is "Health-Boosting Recipes and Medicinal Cuisine," which still categorizes food into grains, legumes, vegetables, fruits, meats, eggs, dairy products, aquatic products, and flowers, presenting a large number of effective health-boosting recipes and medicinal cuisines. It also introduces commonly used folk health wines and medicinal teas. The numerical values of the ingredients listed in the book are based on the new data from the "Chinese Food Composition Table (2002)" compiled by the Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. This allows readers to gain a deeper understanding of the nature of the foods listed in the book. The content of this book is unique and innovative, with the dietary therapy recipes and medicinal cuisines introduced being based on ancient Chinese medical classics and traditional folk formulas. They are simple, practical, and highly effective. In today's increasingly nature-centric society, this book undoubtedly plays a significant role in guiding people to scientifically prevent and treat diseases and improve their quality of life. This book is suitable for the general public to read and reference.