Eating and Healing
eBook - PDF

Eating and Healing

Traditional Food As Medicine

  1. 432 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Eating and Healing

Traditional Food As Medicine

About this book

Discover neglected wild food sourcesthat can also be used as medicine!The long-standing notion of food as medicine, medicine as food, can be traced back to Hippocrates. Eating and Healing: Traditional Food As Medicine is a global overview of wild and semi-domesticated foods and their use as medicine in traditional s

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2006
eBook ISBN
9781482293616
Edition
1
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Nutrition, Dietics & Bariatrics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Tilte
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. About the Editors
  7. Contributors
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Copyright Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction
  11. Chapter 1. Edible Wild Plants As Food and As Medicine: Reflections on Thirty Years of Fieldwork
  12. Chapter 2. Tibetan Foods and Medicines: Antioxidants As Mediators of High-Altitude Nutritional Physiology
  13. Chapter 3. Wild Food Plants in Farming Environments with Special Reference to Northeast Thailand, Food As Functional and Medicinal, and the Social Roles of Women
  14. Chapter 4. Functional Foods or Food Medicines? On the Consumption of Wild Plants Among Albanians and Southern Italians in Lucania
  15. Chapter 5. Digestive Beverages As a Medicinal Food in a Cattle-Farming Community in Northern Spain (Campoo, Cantabria)
  16. Chapter 6. “The Forest and the Seaweed”: Gitga’at Seaweed, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Community Survival
  17. Chapter 7. Medicinal Herb Quality in the United States: Bridging Perspectives with Chinese Medical Theory
  18. Chapter 8. Balancing the System: Humoral Medicine and Food in the Commonwealth of Dominica
  19. Chapter 9. Medicinal Foods in Cuba: Promoting Health in the Household
  20. Chapter 10. Healthy Fish: Medicinal and Recommended Species in the Amazon and the Atlantic Forest Coast (Brazil)
  21. Chapter 11. Edible and Healing Plants in the Ethnobotany of Native Inhabitants of the Amazon and Atlantic Forest Areas of Brazil
  22. Chapter 12. Food Medicines in the Bolivian Andes (Apillapampa, Cochabamba Department)
  23. Chapter 13. Gathering of Wild Plant Foods with Medicinal Use in a Mapuche Community of Northwest Patagonia
  24. Chapter 14. Dietary and Medicinal Use of Traditional Herbs Among the Luo of Western Kenya
  25. Chapter 15. Ethnomycology in Africa, with Particular Reference to the Rain Forest Zone of South Cameroon
  26. Chapter 16. Aspects of Food Medicine and Ethnopharmacology in Morocco
  27. Index