Health-preserving medicinal diet collection

Author: Zheng Chuida / Zheng Donghai (editors)
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: Health and longevity have been a common aspiration and universal concern for humanity since ancient times. With the continuous improvement of living standards, maintaining health and combating aging, as well as extending life expectancy, have become increasingly important to people. Throughout history and across cultures, everyone has desired health and longevity, nurturing their natural years. However, health requires care, and longevity relies on health preservation. While health preservation is equally valued in both the East and the West, a deeper examination reveals distinct differences. Western health preservation often relies on material conditions as auxiliary means, whereas Chinese health preservation focuses primarily on nurturing the body and mind. In other words, Western health preservation is largely discussed from the perspective of health maintenance, while Chinese health preservation is not merely a simple health preservation method but also a comprehensive life philosophy rooted in extensive cultural heritage. Health preservation refers to the care of life, encompassing knowledge of diet, utensils, mental well-being, sexual practices, physical exercise, and other aspects of health. To provide the scientific principles of health preservation for those concerned about health, many individuals have elaborated on various health preservation theories. However, although these theoretical knowledge has offered considerable assistance, they are often scattered across different medical schools, lacking independence and systematic organization, making it difficult for people to seek health preservation—either by searching for clues or through oral tradition—leading to inconvenience. This book selects the unique and precious practice of medicinal diet from the profound Chinese tradition of health preservation and presents it to the readers. In terms of organization, this book, from to the fifth part, takes the physiological and pathological mechanisms of the five internal organs in traditional Chinese medicine as the framework, integrating traditional medicinal diet into the system of TCM syndrome differentiation and treatment to enhance the scientificity and adaptability of medicinal diet applications, making it easier for clinicians to prescribe recipes based on patients' conditions. In the sixth part, common diseases are arranged, allowing readers to refer to and select from to the fifth part. The seventh part focuses on introducing dietary therapy for various types of cancer.