Chinese Diet Therapy

Chinese Diet Therapy
Compiled by Zhao Muying
Translated into English by Wen Jingen
Publisher: China Esperanto Press (January 1, 1996)
Paperback: 224 pages,  7.1 x 4.7 x 0.6 inches
ISBN: 750520307X 9787505203075 more info

Ancient Chinese medical men believed that medicine and diet were on in the same thing. Therefore, Chinese people has arrived at various diet recipes through long practice and these recipes, collected and collated and developed by medical men, which contributes much to the prosperity of the Chinese nation. This book has selected the 570 recipes, which covers 62 common diseases and syndromes. These recipes have definite curative effects and are easy to process at home. Special remarks are made where some herbs are incompatible with certain other foods or drugs.

Includes glossary of terms in English, Latin, and Chinese.

Eating Your Way to Health - Dietotherapy in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Eating Your Way to Health - Dietotherapy in Traditional Chinese Medicine (English edition)
By Cai Jingfeng
Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, second edition, 1996
Paperback, 190 pages
ISBN: 711901885X more info

In traditional Chinese medicine the prevention and treatment of diseases by taking common foodstuffs is called "dietotherapy" or "medicinal foods." Dietotherapy is a gem in the treasure house of Chinese medicine. For countless generations it has shown forth never waning.

Chinese dietotherapy originated among the common people. Through the ages this wisdom has been distilled and improved by doctors, and handed down from ancient times. There are several distinct advantages to this method: The basic foods are easily acquirable; the food itself is easy to make; it is safe; and it often can effect a cure. Accordingly, dietotherapy has been much appreciated by people in China, and with the increasing contacts between China and other lands, it is being more and more welcomed abroad.

This book systematically describes the history of Chinese dietotherapy, tells how to make medicinal foods, introduces the varieties of medicinal foods and explains the proper method of consumption. Dietary treatments for 42 common illnesses are described and more than 100 kinds of medicinal foods are explained in detail. The reader can thus compound and apply the foods as their own condition requires to achieve a cure and greater health. Eating Your Way to Health (English edition) has been very well received since it publication in the 1980s. In response to reader demand for more information, a revised edition with double the contents of the first edition is published.

Cai Jingfeng is a research fellow and professor at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine and is now specialized in medical history, Chinese and Tibetan.

Contents

1. What is Dietotherapy
2. A Time-Honoured Discipline, Historical Background
3. Features of Dietotherapy
4. Varieties of Medicinal Foods
5. The Range of Medicinal Foods
6. Special Foods for Common Medical Problems
7. Common Medicinal Foods
8. Manifestations of Cold, Heat, Deficiency and Excesses in Traditional Chinese Medicine
9. Manifestations of Excess and Deficiency in Blood and Vital Energy (qi)
10. Nature of Everyday Food

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