The Healing Cuisine of China : Healing Arts Press : 9780892817788 : 089281778X : 30 Nov 1998 : A comprehensive guide to the Chinese art of healing with food ? Provides more than 300 authentic Chinese recipes for curing specific ailments and for promoting happiness and vitality ? Explains the theories behind traditional Chinese beliefs about health and diet and reconciles these beliefs with contemporary Western medical knowledge ? Includes a complete fitness program centered on the popular Chinese qi gong exercises Through 5,000 years of recorded history the Chinese have developed an unequaled pharmacopoeia of food remedies and have turned this knowledge into a delicious cuisine that is simple to prepare. This cuisine has little in common with the dishes on the menus of many Chinese restaurants--which have sacrificed traditional Chinese principles to appeal to high-fat Western tastes. Instead, it emphasizes all-natural ingredients eaten in season and in the most beneficial combinati