The Benefits Of The Chinese Diet

Western diet focuses on the adequate and balance intake or carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins and minerals’ while Chinese diet focus on the properties and flavors of food in nature. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) always consider balance of yin-yang. TCM doctors always use herbs along with diet therapy to treat illness or prevent diseases. Before using TCM diet, TCM doctors would first identify the constitutions of the individuals. In other words, the diet therapy is varied from one to one and it is used to achieve balance and compensate the weakness of individuals.

In fact, TCM food is a special prepared dish with an integration of herbs, meat, vegetables and seasonings.

Apart from that, TCM believes that individuals should consume different food according to constitutions and seasons, for instance, if individuals always get cool hands and feet, they should increase intake of warm foods and

They are suitable for those who have yin deficiency with the symptoms of dry eyes and thirst.

For dim sum and congee, I found that the common ingredient is poria. I used to think that poria would be bitter in taste by its name. On the contrary, it does not have any taste at all. Poria is suitable for those who have damp-heat that have oily face and bitter taste in mouth. On the other hand, lotus is also found in both appetizer (pig tripe with lotus seed) and dish (sautéed pork with honeysuckle, lotus and bean sprouts), and it is commonly used in TCM diet as it has a variety of medical uses, such as calming the mind, nourishing the heart and eliminating fatigue.

With regard to the dessert, both the stewed pears with sugar fritillary and almond soup are indicated for cough. Both of the desserts are suitable to be consumed in autumn since fritillaria helps moisten dry throat while alomd helps moisten