Chinese medicine dietary therapy is under the guidance of Chinese medicine theory, combined with the time of the day, the region and the human physique, disease and other conditions, the formulation of the principles of nourishment, and accordingly select the appropriate food, medicine and food with the source of traditional Chinese medicine for the original family, reasonable matching, moderate cooking and processing into a suitable for daily use of the meal, in order to nourish the body and mind, disease prevention and treatment, health and longevity. Chinese medicine dietary therapy is one of the unique health care methods of Chinese medicine. Food therapy "medical in food", change "good medicine bitter taste" for "good medicine tasty", to meet people's "aversion to medicine, like food It satisfies people's nature of "being tired of medicine and fond of food". It is a delicious dish that can give full play to the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine and has the function of nourishing, conditioning and preventive treatment. The production and application of traditional Chinese therapeutic diets is not only a science, but also an art.

Chinese medicine has a long history, and its origin can be traced back to ancient times. During the Warring States period, a relatively rich academic thought and practical experience of TCM diet therapy has been formed.

The Mawangdui Tomb in Changsha, Hunan Province, which was excavated from 1972 to 1974, is the tomb of the Prime Minister of Changsha, Mr. Li Cang, and his family in the early Western Han Dynasty. More than 3,000 cultural relics of great historical research value, including the earliest and well-preserved female corpse ever seen, as well as silk fabrics, silk books, silk paintings, lacquer ware, pottery, bamboo slips, seals, sealing clay, bamboo and wooden wares, agricultural and livestock products, and traditional Chinese medicines, have been unearthed, including the "52 Disease Prescriptions" on silk unearthed from the Mawangdui Tomb No. 3

The "52 Disease Prescriptions" is the earliest surviving book of traditional Chinese medical prescriptions, with 9,911 words, copied in the form of a "Chinese medical prescription", which is the earliest surviving Chinese medical prescription book in China. Nine thousand nine hundred and eleven words, copied in a height of about 24 centimeters, 450 centimeters long scroll after the 5/6 part, the total number of existing medical prescriptions 283, with 247 kinds of medicines, the name of the disease mentioned in the book has 103, including internal, external, gynecological, pediatrics, and the five senses of the disease. In addition to internal medication, there are also various external treatments such as moxibustion, acupuncture, ironing and smoking. At the same time, the book already has a relatively rich content of food therapy.

The book recorded 25 food therapy, involving nearly 60 varieties of food and medicine, including ginger (including dry ginger, withered ginger), scallions, onions (including dry onions), sugar cane, green beams of rice, tiller rice, broomcorn millet, millet (including the United States millet rice, Chen millet), jik, wheat, red answer (i.e., red kidney beans), peas and beans (including peas and beans juice, beans and beans), peas and peas, peas and beans (i.e., soybeans), black peas, peas and beans, salt, Rong salt, apricot kernels Chinese kernels, peach leaves, plums, jujube, jujube seeds, cinnamon, fungus cinnamon, latex, chickens (white chickens, black male chickens, yellow female chickens), chicken blood, chicken eggs (including eggs), pheasants, mutton, beef, antlers, wild swine meat, zokors, oysters, swine paste (including pig paste, boar paste), dog's tails, perch