Your Guide to Health with Foods & Herbs: Using the Wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine

I love this littlish book. It's a size of book you rarely see anymore - about the size of the palm of your hand if you stretched your fingers wide. As for the content, it is expertly organized and created. You get pharmacology of herb, ways to cook and combine, medical applications, and contraindications.I am a writer for an herbal school and I have used this book over and over as a source. The information is easy to extract and very practical. I recommend this book highly.

This book is very well written and information it provides is invaluable! I was especially impressed with the fact that it has CONTRAINDICATIONS for foods if you have certain health conditions! It helped me tremendously to get better sooner. I have not seen this info in any of the books I have read before. Ten stars ans more!

One of my more recent favorites. I like reading and studying TCM to begin with. And this book will be added to my growing library. The Chinese seem to understand how to use not only herbs to heal, but also foods. I think it's past time we American's revisit ancient techniques of health and start detoxifying from the harmful side-effects of prescription medications and even chemically treated foods. The human body is not a toxic waste dump. If you want to know more about natural healing, try this book!

This book was really disappointing. There's no way to look up remedies because the foods are listed alphabetically. The beginning stresses the importance of Chinese body types like wet and dry, and there's even a quiz, but then it's hardly mentioned under any of the foods. There's one diagram at the end showing what foods each type should eat but most of those foods aren't listed in the rest of the book.

I really enjoy seeing my acupuncturist locally and have wanted to learn more about acupuncture and traditional chinese medicine, particularly with regard to food since it is such an important component of health. I have read other books on TCM and food and found them to be overwhelming or confusing (or I feel like everything I"m eating is wrong based on the descriptions of the foods) but this book is truly written by a veteran who has I believe 3 decades of experience in TCM. She makes the subject accessible, welcoming and I felt empowered and more knowledgable after reading the book. I will refer to this many times in the future.

It's a good intro guide and organized format of the material, but I wish it had more comprehensive information, as in I was hoping for more of a reference guide/dictionary that I could look up the food item and get a description. It does have that element, but only for a limited number of food items, it's missing a lot of other fruits and veggies.

Not going to be the most interesting read if you have previous training in the subject. Otherwise, there are a few charts and new ideas in the book that are great for conveying ideas to clients. Besides a few interesting details I found this title to be uneventful. However, if you haven't had any experience with the subject then I would rate this title 5 out of 5. A great book for the novice!

This book gives you a good basic grounding on TCM, the chapters flowed nicely,anyone who wants to get an understanding of Traditional Chinese Medicine should read this book, it will be an eye opener. In fact I will go so far as to say if you want to live a healthy life follow what the authors are saying. Good reading

This is a very good product and a good book to have, the only downside to it is that the book is small

very informational and interesting for me.

Excellent book! very useful information

Very interesting topic and very well written. It would be perfect with recipes.

This book is an in depth guide to a healthier life style in the traditional Chinese lifestyle. Easy to read and understand. Well worth the money spent.