TCM : traditional chinese medicine
TCD : traditional chinese dietotherapy how to use natrual nutriments to preserve health
- The Yellow Emperor’s Internal Classic
- Shennong’s Herbal Classic
- Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases
Decoction of … 煎…
advantages??
- both effective and delicious
- cheap and avaliable widely
Edible Chinese herbs → medicinal effects
- Ginseng（人参）
- Red date（红枣）
- Chinese angelica（当归）
- Chinese wolfberry（枸杞）
Medicated diets → the viscera（内脏） spleen (脾)
- Spring → Livers
- Congee with Chinese Wolfberry, Mung beam and millet
- Summer → Heart
- detoxify
- Autumn → Lungs
- moisten（润）
- Winter → Kidneys
- Mutton and Mooli Soup
- Stew Chicken with Chinese Chestnut
Congee/porridge Sweet Potato Congee
Shallot (葱)
Two forces? Yin food vs Yang foods
- Yin foods decrease the heat of your body and tend to bave high water content
- Yang foods increase the heat of your body and tend to be dense in food energy, especially energy in fat
Moderate food
Rice noodles corns popatoes, sweet potatoes
Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, and you won’t need a doctor to prescribe any medicine
cooking oil quality and so on…