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Eating Your Way To Health
In traditional Chinese medicine the prevention and treatment of diseases by taking common foodstuffs is called "dietotherapy" or "medicinal foods." Dietotherapy is a gem in the treasure house of Chinese medicine. For countless generations it has shown forth never waning. Chinese dietotherapy originated among the common people. Through the ages this wisdom has been distilled and improved by doctors, and handed down from ancient times. There are several distinct advantages to this method: The basic foods are easily acquirable; the food itself is easy to make; it is safe; and it often can effect a cure. Accordingly, dietotherapy has been much appreciated by people in China, and with the increasing contacts between China and other lands,it is being more and more welcomed abroad. Eating Your Way To Health systematically describes the history of Chinese dietotherapy, tells how to make medicinal foods,introduces the varieties of medicinal foods and explains the proper method of consumption.Dietary trearments for 42 common illnesses are described and more than 100 kinds of medicinal foods are explained in detail.The reader can thus compound and apply the foods as their own condition requires to achieve a cure and greater health.
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Chinese Home-Style Cooking
Chinese cooking has a long history. Chinese cuisine aims for perfection and balance among four elements in each dish: color, aroma or fragrance, flavor, and presentation. In recent years,the cuisine of China have received high praise from foreign tourists. Visiting Chinese from overseas have come looking for the foods and flavors of their hometowns and for special dishes characteristic of other regions of their motherland. The focus of Chinese Home-Style Cooking is on family-style Chinese cooking. It includes recipes chosen from all the different cooking styles of North and South China. The recipes use everyday ingredients and simple techniques easily within the grasp of most homemakers. The illustrations are of actual dishes created by Chinese housewives. However, we have also included recipes for some of Chinaīs most celebrated dishes.Although their preparation is more time-consuming and involves many more steps, they are not as complicated as they may appear at first glance, and you may wish to try them when you want to regale your family or guests with a special feast. 
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