Medicine in Food: A Popular Handbook of Food and Medicine: A Popular Handbook of Food and Medicine

Author: Wang Deshun
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: Traditional Chinese medicine holds that balance is health, and regulation is treatment, thus placing great emphasis on the preventive and therapeutic effects of food. The reason food has such effects is that, like medicine, it possesses various properties such as different flavors, meridian tropism, ascending and descending, floating and sinking, tonifying and draining, and toxicity or non-toxicity. The multiple properties of food must be combined and flexibly applied to achieve the goal of "curing diseases with food." This book is divided into two parts. The first part is the "Medicinal Uses of Food," which categorizes food into grains, legumes, vegetables, fruits, meats, eggs, dairy products, aquatic products, and flowers, respectively describing their nutritional characteristics, medicinal properties, and simple dietary therapy recipes. The second part is "Health-Boosting Recipes and Medicinal Cuisine," which still categorizes food into grains, legumes, vegetables, fruits, meats, eggs, dairy products, aquatic products, and flowers, presenting a large number of effective health-boosting recipes and medicinal cuisines. It also introduces commonly used folk health wines and medicinal teas. The values of the components listed in the book are based on the new data from the "Chinese Food Composition Table (2002)" (compiled by the Institute for Nutrition and Food Safety, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention), allowing readers to gain a deeper understanding of the nature of the foods listed. The content of this book is unique and novel, with the dietary therapy recipes and medicinal cuisines introduced being based on ancient Chinese medical classics and traditional folk formulas. They are simple, practical, and highly effective. In today's world where people increasingly value nature, this book undoubtedly plays a significant role in guiding people to scientifically prevent and treat diseases and improve their quality of life. This book is suitable for the general public to read and reference.