Chinese Food Therapy Based on Differential Diagnosis

By "laying stress on the whole, selecting medicated diet on the basis of differential diagnosis", we mean that when prescribing medicated diet, we should first make an overall analysis of the patient's physical and health condition, the nature of his illness, the season he got ill in and the geographical condition, etc, form a judgment on the type of syndrome; then decide on corresponding principles for dietetic therapy and select suitable medicated diet. Take a patient with chronic gastritis, as an example. He should take Galangal and Cyperus Gruel (Liangfu Zhou) if he suffers from chronic gastritis of stomach-cold type, but he can take Drink of Fragrant Solomonseal Rhizome, Dendrobium, Black Plam and Hawthorn Fruit (Tu Shi Mei Zha Yin) if he suffers from chronic gastritis due to deficiency of the stomach-yin. Click here to learn Chinese herb Rhizoma Polygonati Odorati (Yuzhu).