Nutritional Healing with Chinese Medicine: + 175 Recipes for Optimal Health

by Maya Klein, Ellen Goldsmith, Ellen Goldsmith MSOM LAc DipCH

East meets West in the kitchen with the nourishing treasures of Chinese Medicine. Food can be the most powerful medicine. This outstanding book introduces and teaches how to apply the ancient wisdom and traditions of the healing that comes through food according to Chinese medicine. This is a new way of thinking about what foods are needed to achieve balance and ultimately improve health. Goldsmith provides a keen and comprehensive understanding behind the basic principles of Chinese medicine so they can be easily applied to day-to-day lives. She takes these same concepts, expands on them for the food to eat in order to maximize the benefits of Chinese dietary therapy. Eating well is essential to good health and Chinese medicine believes that food truly is medicine. In an easy-to-understand and straightforward manner, Ellen explains how and which combination of foods and flavors act upon the body to move qi (energy) and how they act on the body to warm or cool. Many of the modern day chronic health problems caused by lifestyle, genetics and stress can be helped by distinctive and long lasting changes in the way we eat. 175 enticing recipes organized by season put the theory of Chinese medicine into practice. There are meals that are appropriate for each season from breakfast to dinner, including beverages and desserts. All the recipes are super straightforward, easy to assemble and easily adapted to meet your needs, desires and tastes.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0778805840
• ISBN13: 9780778805847
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Robert Rose
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.9" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Be healthy with TCM wisdom

East meets West in this wonderful guide book for good nutrition and health. It lists the four seasons in yin and yang for a healthy balance. This books adopts the Chinese Tradition Medicine in essence, air and spirit. But the Chinese character of essence is not proper term- the book listed as view, not the proper character for it. The authors listed the Chinese herbs with the English translations and where to get them to prepare in the 175 recipes for maximum health in America especially the pandemic of Covid19. Which politicians made America great in terms of close to a million deaths, while China less than five thousand! The book lists the dirty dozen which get the most insecticide and the least ten. Eat organic if you can from your local farmer market. Beware of code words of natural favor from the lab and extra fiber of sawdust! This books helps you understand why American diet gives the three high – high blood pressure, high cholesterol and high blood sugar. Know the truth and be healthy –The five thousand years Chinese wisdom.