Great Compendium of Chinese Food Therapy - (Revised Edition)

Author: Wang Huanhua
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: This book combines over thirty years of clinical medical practice and references some Western nutritional knowledge, focusing on inheriting the principles of food therapy in traditional Chinese medicine. The Complete Compendium of Chinese Food Therapy includes sixteen categories of common foods, totaling seven hundred species, and provides dietary reference plans for over seventy common conditions. There are a few points that must be clarified:
1. Some foods share similar properties, so this book may select one as the primary entry and list the others as supplements, such as "Sorghum (Supplement: Millet, Job's Tears)"; or it may detail only the common ones while summarizing the rest collectively, such as "Other Fish" under "Fish."
2. To facilitate readers' needs-based searches, this book also includes an "Index of Food Properties" and a "Stroke Index of Food Names."
3. If readers seek dietary management for conditions, it is advisable to follow medical advice first. Since the mechanisms of conditions are complex and varied, and individual circumstances differ, traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes holistic analysis and syndrome differentiation, opposing rigid application. Readers must exercise caution.