Chinese people usually understand soups as so-called long soups, i.e. those that have been cooked for a long time, i.e. for hours. In Chinese, soup is called Tang. Quite a few of the classic recipes of Chinese medicine have the suffix -Tang in their name. This shows that medical knowledge is deeply rooted in everyday life and that Chinese cuisine has always been a dietary one that is cultivated and understood in every family.
During long cooking, the ingredients lose almost all of their flavour. almost completely. This is transferred to the soup. Soups are drunk in the Chinese language, soups are drunk, not eaten. What is drunk is the soup liquid is drunk. What is left of the boiled product is poured away, is then poured away if the ingredients cooked in it consist of tough roots or other components that are difficult to eat, such as bones, cartilage and tendons or if they are completely overcooked and bland. Whoever But if you want, you can still take a few bites out of it, meat for example, perhaps dipped in a small bowl of soya sauce.
Soups are generally used to keep the body healthy or to strengthen it. organism. A distinction is made between strong and mild soups. Strong soups are only eaten at longer intervals, for example once a week in winter once a week in winter and less frequently in summer. Mild soups can be more frequently, e.g. two to three times a week. They have have a less harsh effect than the strong soups.
Strong soups are those that contain, for example ginseng, for example, or other strong toning agents, i.e. those that act on the Qi or Yang. Milder soups are more likely to build up or maintain the preservation of yin or juices. If mild soups contain Qi-tonicising agents in mild soups, these are balanced by other agents or have a somewhat milder effect in and of themselves. Radix Codonopsitis (Dang Shen) instead of Radix Ginseng (Ren Shen) could be cited as an example. example, or the combination of Shan Yao (Rh.Dioscorea) (Rh.Dioscorea) with Radix Astragali (Huang Qi).
It can be assumed that the regular consumption of soups slowly improves many diseases or prevents them from developing.
According to Chinese medicine, soups are suitable for the following conditions:
Soups can support the effect of medical prescriptions with support the effect of medical prescriptions in the case of corresponding findings or lasting effect, or they are already such prescriptions a priori. formulations.
Soups can make other therapies superfluous. In ancient China doctor who could heal without medication was the most respected the one who had mastered the art of dietetics.
Severin Bühlmann, 2016
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