Modern Chinese Medicine Food Cures: A Personalized Approach to Nutrition

Modern Chinese Medicine Food Cures offers a modern approach to nutrition based on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) that helps practitioners and patients navigate conflicting dietary advice. It provides a self-assessment tool, outlines TCM diagnosis and nutritional suggestions, and includes basic Western nutritional advice with food recommendations for common symptoms and illnesses.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 21 January 2025
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Modern Chinese Medicine Food Cures is a comprehensive guide to food, nutrition, and dietary recommendations from a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) perspective. It helps practitioners and their patients navigate a landscape saturated with conflicting dietary advice, providing a tool to meet people where they are and help them make dietary adjustments. Dr. Melissa Carr offers a modern approach to nutrition based on TCM's rich history of using food therapy to personalize health and wellness. She outlines how TCM can systematically assess an individual's health and evaluate how specific foods can impact our bodies. Readers are offered a self-assessment tool to help understand the five elements for TCM diagnosis and the application of nutritional suggestions by element. The basics and key elements of Western nutritional advice are also included, as well as a handy reference of food recommendations for common symptoms and illnesses, focusing on foods and herbs that are familiar and generally easily accessible to Western readers.

Weight: 496g
Dimension: 152 x 230 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781805013198
Edition number: Illustrated ed