Fruits, Vegetables, Wild Greens and Health Preservation

Author: Guo Ling et al.
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: This book compiles information scattered across historical medical literature and current reports on health-preserving and health-enhancing foods, with the aim of inheriting, promoting, organizing, and improving. It integrates research findings from ancient and modern times to create Gua Shu Ye Cai Yang Sheng (Gourd, Vegetable, and Wild Plant Health Preservation),. The book includes 117 types of foods (82 authentic and 35 supplementary) from categories such as grains, beans, oils, beverages, and seasonings. It describes the aliases, origins, properties, meridian tropism, efficacy, indications, dosage, health-preserving effects, classic health-preserving recipes, dietary taboos, and incompatibilities of these foods. Among them, it collects more than 2,800 practical and valuable ancient and modern health-preserving recipes. It is especially important to remind readers that although traditional foods have proven health-preserving effects and a wide range of applications, they should only be used as supplementary treatment methods. For critical conditions, it is essential to follow medical advice and use Western or Chinese medicine for treatment, rather than blindly copying the health-preserving recipes in this book to self-treat. Additionally, readers should not lightly trust so-called "miraculous folk remedies" or "family secret recipes" found on the streets.