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Choose the question you came with
You do not need to learn an entire medical system before looking up a food ingredient. If you have a packet in hand, begin with Ingredients: search its English name, Chinese name, alias or pinyin, then check whether the page describes a fresh food, dried material or processed product. A familiar translated name is a starting point, not proof that two packets contain the same thing.
If a term such as qi, yin, yang or a “cooling” food is confusing, begin with Learn. The guides explain how the terms are used in their traditional setting, what they should not be equated with, and where modern food facts and research answer a different question.
A useful first visit
Try Chinese yam. Read the names and product forms before the kitchen steps; a fresh tuber and dried soup slices are different shopping decisions. Follow a source link for the point you want to check rather than treating the number of references as a score. Compare the wording of a traditional description with the evidence section before deciding what the page actually supports.
Next, open the grocery-label guide if you are shopping, the soup-ingredient guide if you are preparing food, or the Baduanjin learning guides if you are choosing instruction. These are different tasks: a cooking example is not a medicinal dose, and an exercise-resource link is not a personalised training assessment.
Keep a route back
Save a useful ingredient or guide with the bookmark control. Saved pages belong to this browser only; the same entity remains saved when you switch between English and Traditional Chinese. Private browsing, another device or clearing site data may give you an empty list. Saving does not subscribe you to email or create an account.
The site publishes English and Traditional Chinese editions. Simplified ingredient-name input can help find the Traditional Chinese entity, but it does not create a Simplified Chinese edition. The Sources library explains the institutions, dates and limits behind references; the correction form is for a specific statement that can be checked.
Begin with a guide
Chinese Food Therapy: A Beginner’s Guide
Understand a tradition of food use while keeping meals separate from prescriptions.
Qi, Yin and Yang in Plain Language
Read traditional words as part of a framework, without turning them into a self-diagnosis.
Warming and Cooling Foods: What These Terms Mean
Separate a traditional classification from the thermometer and the nutrition label.
What Is Traditional Chinese Medicine?
A map of the practice, its vocabulary and the questions to ask about evidence.