Dietary Recuperation

As a famous couplet goes, “China is endowed with rich medical-food culture; Shennongjia is given avariety of health foods.”For a long time the local people here have formed a unique dieting culture. The sweet and sour magnolia berries in summer and autumn can be taken torelieve summer heat by blending with boiled Pueraria water. The stewed chicken with gastrodia elata is a soup locals often make athome. The local people's living habits of using local materials and supplementing their food with medicine is a vivid manifesto of their dieting culture. There are so many delicacies that integrate medicine with food. There are stewed preserved trotters, stewed bamboo rice with ginseng, crude ginseng pumpkin autumn chrysanthemum cake, medicinal Wuchang Fish, tianma stewed artichoke strips, boiled egg with arrowroot flour, dendrobe cake, mashed autumn chicken, Shennongjia stewedpork with wax gourd, coarse grain cake with mashed tofu,Jiuhu radishcake, andmany others.