Chinese System Of Foods For Health & Healing

by Lu, Henry C.

• ISBN13: 9780806970653
• ISBN10: 0806970650
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-30
• Publisher: Sterling

Summary

Eat your way to health! An acclaimed practitioner of Chinese medicine shows how to identify the indications of illness in each major organ through a four-step diagnostic system--and, if it falls outside the healthy range, to begin the restoration process. Charts define each syndrome, suggest applicable Western diseases, relate medical cases, offer treatment principles, and recommend foods and herbs to heal every area of the body. Includes an overview of food cures and six classes of food and their effects.

Table of Contents

Preface	5	(2)
PART I The Internal Organs & Their Y-scores	7	(70)
The Chinese Theory of Internal Organs	9	(14)
Y-Scores of the Internal Organs	23	(8)
Identifying Your Own Signs and Symptoms	31	(21)
Recording and Calculating the Y-Scores of Your Internal Organs	52	(25)
PART II The Syndromes	77	(144)
Choosing Foods and Herbs to Boost the Lungs and Cure Applicable Symptoms and Diseases	79	(18)
Choosing Foods and Herbs to Boost the Large Intestine and Cure Applicable Symptoms and Diseases	97	(8)
Choosing Foods and Herbs to Boost the Spleen and Cure Applicable Symptoms and Diseases	105	(20)
Choosing Foods and Herbs to Boost the Stomach and Cure Applicable Symptoms and Diseases	125	(12)
Choosing Foods and Herbs to Boost the Liver and Cure Applicable Symptoms and Diseases	137	(19)
Choosing Foods and Herbs to Boost the Gallbadder and Cure Applicable Symptoms and Diseases	156	(4)
Choosing Foods and Herbs to Boost the Kidneys and Cure Applicable Symptoms and Diseases	160	(14)
Choosing Foods and Herbs to Boost the Bladder and Cure Applicable Symptoms and Diseases	174	(5)
Choosing Foods and Herbs to Boost the Heart and Cure Applicable Symptoms and Diseases	179	(13)
Choosing Foods and Herbs to Boost the Small Intestine and Cure Applicable Symptoms and Diseases	192	(5)
Choosing Foods and Herbs to Boost Two Internal Organs Simultaneously and Cure Applicable Symptoms and Diseases	197	(24)
PART III Chinese Food Cures	221	(46)
An Overview of Chinese Food Cures	223	(23)
Six Classes of Foods and Their Effects	246	(21)
Guide to Approximate Equivalents	267	(1)
Index	268