What are the characteristics of medicated diet?

Medicinal diet is a kind of diet with dietotherapy function, which takes medicine and food as raw materials and is processed by cooking. It is the product of the combination of China's traditional medical knowledge and cooking experience. It is a combination of medicine and food, which not only takes medicine as food, but also endows food with medicine. Medicine depends on food, and food helps medicine. It not only has nutritional value, but also can prevent and treat diseases, keep fit and prolong life. Therefore, medicated diet is not only different from the general prescription of Chinese medicine, but also different from the general diet. It is a special diet with both medicinal efficacy and delicious taste. It allows consumers to nourish their bodies and treat diseases while enjoying delicious food. Therefore, the production and application of China traditional medicated diet is not only a science, but also an art.

Medicinal diet is not a general nutritious food, but a modern functional food. The combination of traditional Chinese medicine and food can make medicine taste, food can help medicine, and change "bitter medicine" into "delicious medicine" Therefore, medicated diet is a delicious food that gives full play to the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine, especially to satisfy people's nature of "hating medicine and loving food". Medicinal diet is not only a functional food, but also a special and popular Chinese medicine dosage form.