Popularity of Chinese Food Therapy

At present, medicated diet has begun to be valued in trades of both medicine and food and drink. Some Chinese medical units have developed scientific research on medicated diet; some hospitals have established departments of dietetic therapy or outpatient service of dietetic therapy; and medicated diet dining-halls have been set up in some cities. Tongrentang Hospital in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, for example, set up one in 1980 with 96 kinds of medicated diet recipes. Qilu Medicated Diet Restaurant started business in Jinan, Shandong in 1986. Click here to learn Chinese herb Fructus Gardeniae (Zhizi).

Medicated diet has been developing greatly in assortment on the basis of traditional process, for example, medicated can, medicated sweets and so on. Salutary food and drinks produced on the basis of achievements in scientific research and having the effect of curing diseases have a variety of sorts and vary in characteristics.  There is medicated food suitable for patients suffering from diabetes, obesity and angiocardiopathy; there are health-care food and drinks suitable for athletes, actors, actresses and miners; there are also health-care foods or medicated diets suitable for the promotion of children's health and growth, or for prolonging life of the aged. Click here to learn Chinese herb Semen Cassiae (Juemingzi)">Semen Cassiae (Juemingzi).

Chinese medicated diet has begun to go abroad. Medicated cans, health-care drinks and medicated wine made from traditional Chinese medicine have been sold at the international market. Medicated diet dining-halls have been set up in some countries. Personnel of academic, industrial and commercial circles abroad have paid close attention to Chinese medicated diet -- a special food, hoping to develop academic exchanges and technical and economic cooperation in this respect. Chinese medicated diet will make contributions to the health of the people all over the world. Click here to learn Chinese herb Herba Andrographitis (Chuanxinlian).