Discovery of Chinese ancient materia medica is my passion; perhaps it is because of my grandpa. My sis and I never met him since we were born. But mom always tells us his story. Grandpa was born in Guangzhou province; China, he then later came to Malaysia in 1921. He was a Chinese herbalist who likes to experience with herbs to recuperate health. In 1953, he started a Chinese medicine's store in Singapore and created a balm called " Hu Gu Jing or

Advertisement of "Hu Gu Jing or Hou Gu Jing" during 1953.

However, my grandpa story has embarked my sis and my interest to explore more on it. We started to attend course in KL Academy of TCM. From the course, we get to know a lot of useful information about how Chinese culture take good care of health and beauty via combination of foods and herbal medicine based on theory of TCM; identify and usage of herbs, knowledge on Tuina, acupuncture and etc. From this, we started to experience with herbs; research on beauty yet healthy recipes, creating our own concoctions and this has become part of our life. We are happy to share this out with others :)

In fact, the study of how to make good use of common foods and herbal medicine to heal diseases, preserve health and pro long one's life, which known as medicinal food or Chinese dietotheraphy has a long history in Chinese culture more than 2000 years ago. Among the famous Chinese ancient handed down rich knowledge medical book such as "Ben Cao Gang Mu" and "Huang Di Nei Jing" are still today's Chinese people regimen and eating guide because it really contributed to the health of the Chinese.

As we can see the recent emergency of various diseases such as cardiovascular disease, depression that arises from the daily tug and tussle at work has taken the world by storm. Many of the diseases are closely tie to the daily diet. For instance, cardiovascular diseases, if we pay attention to adjust our daily food and drink, the process of arteriosclerosis can be greatly postponed or even prevented. It can be seen that these is a close relationship between diet and health.

In recent years, more and more people from other countries are showing great interest in Chinese things, and Chinese dietotheraphy has attracted special attention. Many foreigners have expressed their wish for a more detailed and substantial introduction to Chinese dietotheraphy. Hence Medicinal Cuisine is dedicated to show you the way to a healthy living lifestyle by using natural ingredients such as living foods and herbs in a simple way to gain a beautiful life.

How and where do these recipes come from? We have researched and included some of the popular medicinal recipes from ancient times such as Ben Cao Gang Mu, Huang Di Nei Jing and so on; info and recipes from the course, our own concoctions and some even handed down from the generation of my family. These recipes are safe to use when similar ailments are present for health. But it is highly recommended that to consult the physician when using recipes to avoid any contradiction to medicine that you are taking because each body type require different type of medicinal dish. For example, people with heaty body constitution are encourage to take foods that have cooling properties like cucumber, barley, chrysanthemum and etc in order to balance the body condition and vice versa. For more details, kindly check it out at our Chinese Dietotheraphy Section.

We are trying to dig out more and more recipes and would like to share out all the info with you. In this site, we have included recipes for beauty promotion, illness prevention and therapeutic diet recipes for your reference. We believe you will benefit from them. We also welcome any of your recommendations. Simply email us at info@medicinal-cuisine.com and please state if you prefer your name to be withheld from publication. Enjoy!