Relationship between Dietotherapy and Medicated Diet

People often confuse the concept of dietotherapy and Chinese medicated diet. In fact they have both similarities and differences. TCD does not add medicine, but Chinese medicated diet adds medicine. Of course, Chinese medicated diet is not just a simple combination of food and Chinese drugs, but rather a special highly finished diet made from Chinese drugs, food, and condiments under the theoretical guidance of diet preparation based on TCM's differentiation of symptoms and signs.

Chinese medicated diet has not only the efficiency of medicine but also the delicacy of food, and can be used to prevent and cure diseases, build up one's health, and prolong one's life.

 Characteristics of Chinese medicated diet

The characteristics of Chinese medicated diet are as follows:

Laying Stress on the Whole, Selecting Medicated Diet on the Basis of Differential Diagnosis

"Laying stress on the whole, selecting medicated diet on the basis of differential diagnosis" means that when doctors prescribe a medicated diet, they should first make an overall analysis of the patient's physical and health condition, the nature of the patient's illness, the season the patient got ill in, and the geographical condition, and so on, before forming a judgment on the type of syndrome. Only then should the doctors decide on corresponding principles for dietetic therapy and select a suitable medicated diet.

Take a patient suffering from a chronic stomach condition, as an example. If the patient is suffering from a stomach condition resulting from a cold, he or she should take one kind of medicine, but if the patient is suffering from the same kind of condition brought on by a stomach deficiency, he or she should take another kind of medicine.

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