Chinese Medicine Food

Medicine food is 【小题1】 unique cooking style in Chinese cuisine. It is a perfect combination of Chinese cooking and traditional Chinese medicine to get the effects of health keeping. It is also a skillful application of the yin and yang (阴阳) theory 【小题2】 (strengthen) the function of food and herbs.

The Chinese sort each type of vegetable and meat in terms of yin and yang, and combine vegetables with meat, 【小题3】 will make each cooked dish 【小题4】 (balance).

During the 5th century BC, cooks created cuisines with medical values and developed Chinese art of cooking, 【小题5】 (use) the nature of food to balance the diet.

In the Song Dynasty, 【小题6】 was recorded that many diseases could be cured through proper diets. Different foods were sorted according to their 【小题7】 (origin) nature. Cold foods 【小题8】 (believe) to remove fever while warm foods reduce running noses.

Knowing the nature of individual foods 【小题9】 (enable) the Chinese to eat right food and balance the yin and yang of the body. For example, sour food eases some disorders, 【小题10】 (slight) sweet food relieves illness related to the veins and bitter food helps to cure an overheated body.

High quality technologies, strong teamwork and humanistic care have contributed to the successful treatment of a 【小题1】 (critical) ill COVID-19 patient at the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University in Guangdong province.

The novel coronavirus patient survived after 【小题2】 world record 111 days on an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machine（体外膜肺氧合机）. The patient, 【小题3】 also had relied on a respirator to breathe for over 150 days, was discharged from the hospital last Thursday.

Zhong Nanshan, a top respiratory disease expert and an academician at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said many of his foreign counterparts said it was a 【小题4】 (medicine) "miracle" for a seriously ill COVID-19 patient to recover after being on an ECMO for 111 days.

Zhong said they never gave up on the man, "As long as there is a glimmer of hope we do it 【小题5】all costs," Zhong said.

ECMO is a machine 【小题6】 (use) to replace heart and lung function in open-heart surgery. In simple 【小题7】 (word), it allows the heart and lungs to rest, by pumping and oxygenating a patient's blood outside the body.

The patient, who was transferred to the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University from another local hospital on Feb 4, 【小题8】 (send) to the intensive care unit and connected to the ECMO on Feb 9 when his condition 【小题9】 (worse). In addition to providing medication, the medical staff took turns caring for and looking after him in the ward.

Liu Xiaoqing, director of the hospital's intensive care medicine unit, said 【小题10】 preserving life is the most basic requirement, medical staff also should have the patient's future in mind. "We should not only enable them to live, but also live with quality," she said.

Since the country’s first confirmed case of COVID-19 was reported on May 13, medical workers and volunteers 【小题1】 (conduct) all-out efforts to contain the latest outbreak. Thousands of local medical workers and volunteers have concentrated on nucleic acid testing, vaccination and 【小题2】 (help) people who are quarantined.

In Yingkou, Liaoning, 【小题3】 1,788 people were quarantined by the end of Monday, 52 teams of volunteers made more than 8,000 contactless deliveries of daily 【小题4】 (necessary), said Zhang Xianbin, vice-mayor of Yingkou. 【小题5】 (ensure) that the city was safe from a further outbreak, the municipal government of Shenyang, the provincial capital, declared on Tuesday afternoon the expansion of testing to areas beyond where the current four cases were found, 【小题6】 the support of over 1,400 medical workers.

Tong Mingming, 【小题7】 nurse in Hefei, said that after administering hundreds of doses of vaccines to residents, she was very tired but would continue to work. Tong had planned to take a vacation recently. 【小题8】 she was kept on duty after the new cases were found in the city’s Feixi county and the 【小题9】 (neighbor) city of Lu’an. Recalling the situation in early 2020, Tong, the nurse, said she feels much 【小题10】 (safe) working at the front line “because we are now more experienced in handling the situation and protected by the vaccines.”