Chinese System Of Food Cures: Prevention & Remedies (Paperback)

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A Chinese professor of medicine reveals how you can prepare ordinary foods to relieve and cure hundreds of ailments; fresh cherries for laryngitis, celery juice and honey to lower cholesterol, beef kidney to improve male potency, and much more. "A fascinating book."--Holos Institute of Health.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (March 15, 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806963085
• ISBN-13: 978-0806963082
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #292,090 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars some good data - but missing information and disorganized, July 22, 2004

By	Alternating Current (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

The good:

1) some really useful information
2) simply written explanation of hot warm cool cold principals of food and who is suited best by which temperatures. He even has a chart.

The bad:

1) There are a few chapters broken down according to whether the item is an herb, vegetable, fruit, grain, etc. There doesn't appear to be any logical or alphabetical order of the items within each chapter.

2) For each item listed, there is a food property description for what it remedies (for instance, asthma). Under the initial list of remedies the author proceeds to list basic recipes of combined ingredients for specific ailments. These may or may not be listed under the original heading.

3) If you look up an ailment in the index, you might find 3 entries referencing the ailment, when in fact there are probably 10 or so. They're just tucked away in one of the recipes.

4) Sometimes, he'll list a recipe, without indicating its use

5) no botanical names are given so you can't be sure if the yam he mentions is actually a yam or yucca.

6) he'll reference a clinical trial without specifics (quantity of solution and how it was taken, for how long, what improvement was seen, etc.)

I really wanted to like this book, and I still try to refer to it as he has some really good remedies in here. However, I really can't recommend a book where I have to write in entries into the index so that I can find some miraculous solution a week from now.

His other book, "Chinese Herbs With Common Foods: Recipes for Health and Healing" received a better review, but only one person has reviewed it so far.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Top notch, May 17, 2001

By	"improved_sam" (a matrix) - See all my reviews

The good: this book has only 192 pages yet it has hundreds of food cures. it has chinese-medicine profiles of a large number of food items.the cures are really effective i have tried some my self. it has an effective cure for Hypoglycemia(low blood sugar) using an extremly common fruit everyday. I tried it with excellent results , I feel like superman!. it presents scientific experemints , citizen reports , medical knowledge , and personal experience and research.

Also: This book gives a valuable working knowledge of chinese food effects and cures which is a major part pf chinese medicine.
Food interaction is the first protocol of chinese medicine.So with this book you'll know a practical home based healing system with out needing to go to China or learn Chinese or going anyware because by just ordering this great book you'll learn alot of important info that will show its importance for a very long time in that you will constantly be referring to it.

Remark:generally speaking , practitioners of an alternative medicine practice are more knowledgable of natural cures than MDs who research the field.

The bad: of course this book cannot cover all known foods, you will find some common foods missing and this book has a large number of asian foods that arent common in some countries. some organization problems , sometimes the index does not show all possible cures , maybe there was a computer error in the printing , meaning that you might find a cure for a certain disease that wasen't listed under a food name.

The Bottom line: buy this book now , try its remedies before you go to a hospital.

16 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent! Easy reading and informative!, April 8, 1998

By A Customer

A unique book based upon Chinese Medicine. Informs the reader WHY certain foods are good and bad for YOUR body type. Many good hints about eating.