Yaoshan

Yaoshan	Yaoshan

Yaoshan, or Medicinal diets, are made by mixing traditional Chinese medicine with conventional food and cooking them together. The variety and dosage are strictly controlled.
It is different from using food in place of medicine, since medicinal diets are mainly to make unpleasant-tasting medicinal herbs taste like delicious foods for easier taking. Taking medicine can then be as having a meal. Such combination of medicine and meal forms a new breed of food by taking properties of medicine and the taste of great food. This also pushed Chinese therapy by food to a new level. Today, China’s cities both large and small have specialty medicinal diet restaurants, and business is rather prosperous.
Though western medicine can cure many pains and illnesses, but due to its properties of chemical compounds, it causes rather strong side effects. Needless to say that it has no nutritional value. Chinese medicinal diets, however, are fully rooted in natural plants and herbs; long-term use at the right dosage is much safer. Even important is that it can nourish the body and preserve health by strengthening the body’s immune system, achieving the goal of slow-aging and prolonging life.