Food Therapy for Invigorating All the Viscera
Medicated diets for invigorating all the viscera are cooked by mixing Chinese materia medica chosen for replenishing the five viscera and treating consumptive diseases into certain foods. This category of medicated foods has the effects of replemshing defciency,nourishing qi and blood, and tonifying the five viscera, and therefore, is capable of improving nutrition, strengthening the immunologic function of organism and disease-resistance, which results in improving health, tranquilizing the mind, stimulating the appetite and exciting sexual function. It is applicable to all syndromes of deficiency, manifested as emaciation, malnutrition, pale complexion, palpitation, shortness of breath, insomnia, forgetfulness, lassitude and poor appetite, low fever due to consumptive diseases, constipation, etc.