Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "fat people have more phlegm and dampness". Generally, obese people have imbalanced diets, excessive appetite, or a preference for fatty, greasy, and sweet foods, which can lead to spleen deficiency, lung dysfunction, and phlegm stagnation in the body, resulting in obesity. Therefore, Chinese medicine weight loss is based on the principles of invigorating the spleen and eliminating dampness, promoting digestion and resolving accumulation, activating blood circulation and relieving fatigue, and transforming phlegm and resolving stagnation. The use of medicinal diet for weight loss involves selecting appropriate food and medication combinations to create delicious meals.
Medicinal Diet 1: Braised Winter Melon
Ingredients: 500g winter melon, appropriate amount of bean paste, soy sauce, clear soup, wet starch, finely chopped scallion, monosodium glutamate, and vegetable oil.
Preparation: Peel and wash the winter melon, cut it into slices that are 3cm long, 2cm wide, and 1cm thick. Add an appropriate amount of vegetable oil to a wok and heat it until it is 40% hot. Add chopped scallion and ginger, and stir-fry with bean paste. Then add the winter melon, soy sauce, and clear soup. Simmer over low heat until the winter melon becomes tender. Add monosodium glutamate and thicken with wet starch. Serve.
Medicinal Diet 2: Hawthorn Kelp Shreds
Ingredients: 300g soaked kelp, 100g fresh hawthorn, 30g white sugar, appropriate amount of scallion, ginger, and cooking wine.
Preparation: Wash the kelp and put it in a pot. Add scallion, ginger, cooking wine, and water. Bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat until soft. Remove and cut into shreds. Remove the core of the hawthorn and cut it into shreds. Mix the kelp shreds with sugar evenly and place them in a dish. Sprinkle with hawthorn shreds, then sprinkle a layer of white sugar on top. Serve.
Medicinal Diet 3: Poria Tofu
Ingredients: 500g tofu, 30g poria powder, 40g pine nuts, carrot, shiitake mushroom, egg white, refined salt, cooking wine, clear soup, and wet starch.
Preparation: Press the tofu to remove water. Slice the carrot into diamond-shaped thin slices. Beat the egg white until foamy. Cut the tofu into small cubes, sprinkle with poria powder and salt, then arrange the tofu pieces flat, smear with egg white, and place shiitake mushrooms, carrots, and pine nuts on top. Steam over high heat for 10 minutes, then remove. Boil clear soup, refined salt, and cooking wine in a pot, thicken with wet starch, and pour over the tofu.
Medicinal Diet 4: Lotus Seed Slimming Soup
Ingredients: 30g lotus seeds, 30g fox nuts, 50g coix seeds, 8g longan flesh, 300g pork, 2 red dates.
Preparation: Blanch the pork in boiling water. Wash all the ingredients. After boiling 10-12 bowls of water, add all the ingredients. Boil over high heat for 10 minutes, then simmer over low heat for 2 hours. Season and serve.
Traditional Chinese medicine diet for weight loss does not involve dieting, changing eating habits, or causing pain and side effects. However, the effect is slow, so persistence is necessary to achieve good results.
