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Chinese herbal soups
The natural dietary way to good health
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Different types of food can be used to treat many illnesses. This approach to good health is commonly known as dietary therapy (shi liao). Dietary therapy is healing using food items in place of drugs and medications. Food must be deliberately combined and prepared and the effects of the food items on the person considered. Traditional chinese medicine (TCM) practitioners believe that food contain properties that affect bodily functions. In fact every ingredient in the chinese kitchen is supposed to have different effects on the body. Some of these ingredients are extra special. They are more commonly known as chinese herbs and some have very well-known curative functions. Cooking with chinese herbs is a common approach in chinese cooking. One of the most popular chinese cooking using chinese herbs is chinese herbal soups. Adding chinese herbs in soups is a long tradition and a distinctive feature of chinese soups. Chinese herbal soups is different from the medicinal decoctions prescribed by TCM practitioners. These are usualy black, very bitter and strong while chinese herbal soups are gentle tonics meant to nourish the body and maintain proper bodily functions. The ideal soup pots for cooking chinese herbal soups are the slow cooker and the ceramic double boiler pot. "Health begins with a healthy diet"Recipesasian chicken soupblack chicken soup No.1 black chicken soup No.2 chicken feet soup chinese chicken soup Healthy chicken soup with astragalus astragalus vegetable soup No.1 astragalus vegetable soup No.2 beef soup No.1 beef soup No.2 |
