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The Chinese believes that a person's health can be determined by the kind of food he consumed. Food can also be used for the treatment of illnesses. This view or approach to good health is commonly known as dietary therapy (shi liao ??). Dietary therapy is defined as healing using food in place of drugs or medications. Food must be deliberately combined and prepared and the effect of the food on a person considered. Dietary therapy practitioners believe that food have properties that affect bodily functions. In fact, almost 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 and established curative functions. Cooking with chinese herbs is a common approach in chinese cooking. One of the most popular chinese cooking using chinese herbs is herbal soups, that is, cooking the chinese herbs in soups. Adding chinese herbs in soups is a long tradition and a distinctive feature of chinese soups. This is different from the medicinal decoctions prescribed by traditional chinese medicinal practitioners which usually have very bitter or strong tastes. Chinese soups cooked with chinese herbs are usually tonics meant to nourish the body and maintain proper bodily functions. Chinese herbal soups:Astragalus chicken soupAstragalus vegetable soup Astragalus vegetable soup No. 2 Herbal potato soup Related linksChinese herbs commonly used in chinese soups |
