Helping Ourselves: A Guide to Traditional Chinese Food Energetics

by Daverick Leggett, Katheryn Trenshaw (Illustrator)

Helping Ourselves is a beginners guide to nutrition according to the principles of Chinese Medicine. It is a user friendly practical guide, ideally suited to practitioners, students and clients of Chinese medicine as well as those interested more generally in nutrition. The book contains simple one page explanations of each basic diagnostic pattern and the foods that will assist its healing. Helping Ourselves includes charts listing the properties of about 300 common foods and 150 western herbs. It also includes a section on diagnosis. This popular reference manual can also be used as the companion volume to its sequel, Recipes for Self Healing.

Genres: Health, Nutrition, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Food

Paperback

First published October 1, 1994

Reviews

[TT · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is very very simple. It is a wonderful place to start to learn about the energetics of food and your constitution. I recommend this book as your first "food as medicine book." Leggett uses the same principles for food that are used in acupuncture and Chinese Medicine in general. This book will give you a solid foundation on which to build your understanding. ~Tennyson

[Michael Joe Armijo · Rating 5 out of 5]

I highly recommend this easy to read book to anyone who needs to determine the types of foods they should be eating to find balance in their lives. It's a great book. I had the fortune to get this book as a gift from my longtime friend, Barbara Louise Reynolds, in Berkeley, CA. Thank you Barbara!

[Diane · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book about the energetics of food from a Chinese Medicine perspective. Very concise, easy to read. Good for a novice reader.

[Sally]

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