Medicine food(药膳) is unique cooking style in Chinese cuisine(菜肴) It is a perfect combination of Chinese cooking and (tradition) Chinese medicine to get the various (effect) of health keeping.
The Chinese sort(分类) each type of vegetable and meat in terms of yin and yang, and combine vegetables with meat, will make each cooked dish balanced
During the 5th century BC, cooks created the special food with medical values and developed Chinese art of cooking, (focus) on the nature of food to balance the diet There were rules on how to arrange daily diet with a range certain herbs(草药) and vegetables
In the Song dynasty, it (record) that many diseases could be cured through proper diet Different foods were sorted according to (they) original nature Cold foods were believed to remove fever while warm foods reduce running noses.
Knowing the nature of individual foods (cnable) the Chinese to eat right food to protect inside organs and balance the yin and yang of the body. For example, slightly sweet food reduces the pain of illness and (significant) bitter food helps to cure an overheated body