Naturally Speaking: Chinese Recipes and Home Remedies

by Terry Tan

Discover the amazing benefits of using herbs, spices and plants as natural remedies, as beauty aids and for your general wellbeing. The author Terry Tan - a qualified Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner - presents over 100 tried and tested recipes and home remedies. With a collection of 50 such natural substances this book offers a detailed description of each, along with their nutritional content and ways in which to utilise them. Examples include, green tea which research has shown helps reduce blood cholesterol levels, combat stomach and skin cancers as well as boost the immune system; and cumin seeds which are a good source of iron and are known to sustain a healthy digestive system, as well as protect against cancer. Each substance and recipe is listed alphabetically and beautifully illustrated for easy reference and identification. This book, the second in the series "Naturally Speaking", offers the natural alternative to various health and general wellbeing matters and presents simple nutritional suggestions that can fit in a person's everyday diet and stop them resorting to the commercial solutions available.

183 pages, Hardcover

First published October 30, 2007

Reviews

[Valerie · Rating 3 out of 5]

The chief value of this book is the sharp photography and the identification of Chinese herbals in Mandarin, Cantonese and English. It is therefore an easy book to use for your initial shopping trips to the Chinese herbalist. I wish the book offered a few more recipes for each item and more information on each item. (Can you chew and swallow Solomon's seal, or must you throw it away after making pork soup? and so on.) My local herbalist can answer some of these questions, but one doesn't want to arrive at the shop with too many....