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Healing Spices: How to Use 50 Everyday and Exotic Spices to Boost Health and Beat Disease Hardcover – January 4, 2011

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Filled with easy-to-understand information and 50 recipes, this is the first book that shows you how to use and cook with spices for maximum health and healing.

Breakthrough scientific research is finding that spices-even more than herbs, fruits, and vegetables-are loaded with antioxidants and other unique health-enhancing compounds. Studies of dietary patterns around the world confirm that spice-consuming populations have the lowest incidence of such life-threatening illnesses as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer's.
Bharat B. Aggarwal, the world's foremost expert on the therapeutic use of culinary spices, takes an in-depth look at 50 different spices and their curative qualities, and offers spice “prescriptions”—categorized by health condition—to match the right spice to a specific ailment.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Union Square & Co.; 1Edition (January 4, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1402776632
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1402776632
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.95 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.3 x 1.3 x 9.1 inches

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Josey

Loved it so much I bought another for my friend!

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I admit I bought this book sometime ago, a year maybe, but when I finely got around to reading and then trying some of the recipes I was sold! So much so, that I ordered another one for my friend. She and her adult grandson both enjoy it.

Both of us suffer from some sort of respiratory disease, I have asthma, while she had Covid 19 pneumonia and was on a respirator for 2.5 months in a hospital. I found the Ginger tea very effective for clearing out morning congestion after getting up. Did NOT need to use my inhaler which saved it for emergencies! She found that the Thyme recipe worked well for her.
While her grandson was amazed that ordinary Spices could effect the body in so many different ways!

I highly recommend this book!!

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Marie Guenther

Great price and condition

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There is a wealth of information in this book. Purchased used and in good condition. Four stars for a few editorial discrepancies. If you are curious about spices, whether or not you're interested in their medicinal properties, this book is worth a read. It's worth much more than I paid for it.

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Robert W.

Good book to initiate the use of spices for managing several health conditions

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I recommend this book for both the beginner and advanced student of spices used for healing.

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The spice Bible!

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I am an experienced home cook who uses some combination of spices nearly every day. I thought I had a pretty good handle on their properties, and what to use when, but this book expanded my knowledge more than I ever thought possible....and introduced me to some new ones I'd never heard of or worked with (kokum, amchur powder, black cumin). The chapters are structured thus: an introduction to and description of the spice, a discussion of its healing properties with actual medical evidence from peer reviewed journals and studies, a listing of what other spices and flavors the spice complements, and ends with a recipe including the spice. The recipes range from the simple (tomato-basil sauce) to the complex (By the Bay Fisherman's Chowder, designed to showcase the bay leaf, which has an extensive list of ingredients), but all are wonderfully delicious. Appendices at the back of the book contain several recipes for custom spice mixes and curries. The Madras curry paste, which contains a whopping amount of coriander seeds, is absolutely superb--I make sure to have a tupperware in my fridge ready to go at all times because it's THAT good. I cannot speak to if I've gotten any health benefits out of this book, but it's a joy to cook with and my copy is quickly becoming dog-eared because I use it all the time. My 1YO son gives it a thumbs-up too, as he wolfed down the chili con carne I made a few nights ago (in the Cumin chapter).

I appreciate that the author includes notes throughout certain chapters on other names for certain spices, and what to watch out for. For example, black cumin can be elusive because sometimes it's mislabeled in stores or customers confuse it with another spice like true cumin or curcumin, a substance found in turmeric that has no relation to either. So the author includes a helpful note about the various names you might see for black cumin, like nigella or kolonji--I finally found a bag labeled "nigella seeds" which I wouldn't have found otherwise. He also includes a headnote in the Basil chapter, advising on the differences between various types of basil (everyday basil, Thai basil, tulsi, etc), and a heads-up in the Saffron chapter so that you don't find yourself shelling out a lot of money for safflower instead of true saffron.

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I got this book from the library and then decided to buy it. It has so much information in it that you just need to have it on hand as a reference. Overall, I love it and am grateful to the author for writing it and making all this research accessible to the general public. I agree with someone else here who was annoyed that there are no footnotes, but I decided that given the target audience for the book, that was probably a wise editorial decision. He DOES say, in discussing studies, whether the research was in test tubes, animals, or people, and how big a study it was if it was a human study, so it's not just this vague "has been effective against X condition," which you often see out there. I appreciate that he talks some about the scientific, cell-level dynamics of why something works. And he usually mentions the name of the journal that a study was published in. Each spice's section contains a list of other spices it pairs well with and examples of foods that it goes well with. I don't eat animal products (and there's plenty of medical research supporting THAT health decision, too!) and I wish more of the suggestions and recipes were for vegetarian meals, but I think it's easily enough adapted and even though this is not really a cookbook per se, I do look forward to trying some of the sauces, although I'll be putting them over tempeh or veggies. I think the book would be even more useful if the index were more thorough and the chart at the back where you can look up conditions more detailed. Several times now, I have remembered reading about some spice that's effective against some malady, and I can't remember which spice it was, and no searches in the index or in that chart (which is helpful but not as complete as it could be) have turned it up. So if you actually had a diagnosis of something, you might have to read the whole book all over again looking for that one tidbit you remember seeing! The chart by conditions at the end lists 41 different spices with anti-cancer properties. Most of them have demonstrated effectiveness against one or several different types of cancer. So if you wanted to look up spices you could use to prevent or help fight breast cancer or melanoma, for instance, you'd have to go back through all 41 of those on the list looking for the ones relevant to a particular cancer. So whoever was in charge of making indexing decisions didn't go as good a job on this job as the author did in compiling all this scientific evidence.I appreciate the tips on how to choose and store the spices, too. I wish there were more recommendations about the AMOUNT that you need to consume to achieve these benefits. But since the research is not quite there yet for many of these, he would be over-reaching to have that because in most cases, it would be pure conjecture. He does have recommended amounts when there are relevant clinical trials that have shown results at specific levels.

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R. Allan

Where are the sources?

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A very interesting and informative book laden with fact? Or is it? The author states a lot of facts and researches, but for someone with a PhD, I thought he would know better and add those footnotes and bibliography! Even I could state countless facts without stating my sources. It shouldn't be my job having to Google every fact as it's exhausting. Whenever he says "this spice could cure cancer according (insert reputable journal) and clinical trials are underway" I roll my eyes so hard I've almost dislocated them. He doesn't give you the date, the page number, or the authors. Then I Google to see if any reputable journal has done a research and if there are in fact clinical trials happening. As you can see, it's exhausting.

Buy this book if you enjoy doing your own complementary research rather than blindly trust someone who doesn't cite a single source to back his claims -well, he only sprinkles the text with journal names and institutions. Otherwise, there are better books on how to use spices in your kitchen, whether they are healing, or not.

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Learn how to beat cancer and improve your diet.

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I read an article in the Daily Telegraph about cancer and being a cancer survivor myself was immediately intrigued.
It mentioned "Healing Spices" by Bharat Aggarwal as a good source of information. I am always interested
to know about foods that are linked to prevention or help with the many illnesses our world is afflicted with, in
particular cancer. The book is wonderful, full of advice and great recipes for 50 spices. I heartily recommend it.
The only gripe I have is that it seems to be aimed at the American market and most of the websites or retailers it recommends
are American-that aside it is a wonderful book that not only helps improve your diet but also your health.

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Amazing up to date book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 9, 2019

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Janet

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 12, 2014

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Lots of lovely, healthy recipes and information on traditionally used spices for health.

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Christine Robinson, David Robinson

An Excellent book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 14, 2014

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This book is very well written and easy to understand. The information contained withing the book far exceeded my expectations.
It's not often I come across a book I cannot stop reading!

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