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Your Guide to Health with Foods & Herbsby: Yifang Zhang
Yao, Yingzhi
New York NY:
Better Link Press 2012, $19.95, Paperback
ISBN: 9781-60220-121-7
Reviewed by: Jacqueline M. Newman
Fall Volume: 2013 Issue: 20(3) page(s): 20
 For thousands of years, Chinese traditional medicine has accumulated knowledge about using foods and herbs therapeutically. Guided by yin and yang, they believe foods and herbs provide a natural way to boost energy and immunity, extend longevity, enhance beauty, reduce toxins, regulate mood, and treat other health conditions.
This book tells how to assess mind and body, bring harmony into the body and between people, how to select foods and herbs, treat and/or prevent health problems, develop a strong and healthy physique, and get and keep a positive outlook on life. Discussed are ninety foods and herbs with facts and photos. This information helps one understand and make the best choices for self using the wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine. In addition, there are six chapters about how to use functional foods, treat common health conditions such as getting fit and staying energetic, enhance beauty through inner harmony, regulate and boost immunity, maintain reproductive health, reduce toxins, regulate moods, and sharpen mental acuity. The appendix provides tips and tools to get one's kitchen ready discussing ingredients and cooking techniques. Included is a glossary, a bibliography, and an index. The book ends with a guide to functional foods and herbs shaped in a heart with symptoms and foods in six areas, the center of which is a small heart including foods for everyone. These are separated into heat and damp, dry and cold, overly strong and weak. Those foods considered for everyone are: figs, almonds, licorice, carrots, gingko nuts, sunflower seeds, lotus, white or black fungus, and olives. |
