Guest guest Posted October 15, 2004 Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 hello again everyone. I've got a little book and am doing a short course at the moment on Chinese Medical Dietetics - diet therapy. the problem is that there are lots of foods which aren't mentioned in the book or the course. I'm wondering if anyone knows of any extensive lists of foods with CM descriptions (flavour, nature, affected organs etc) available on the web? Thanks. Simon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 15, 2004 Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 > I'm wondering if anyone knows of any extensive lists of foods with CM > descriptions (flavour, nature, affected organs etc) available on the > web? Unfortunately, there is very little material on TCM dietary therapy in English that is translated from primary Chinese sources at this time. You may be able to find information on the internet by searching in Chinese, but that may or not be helpful to you. Let us know if you find something interesting in either language. Eric Chinese Medicine , " wackname " <wackname> wrote: > > > hello again everyone. > > I've got a little book and am doing a short course at the moment on > Chinese Medical Dietetics - diet therapy. the problem is that there > are lots of foods which aren't mentioned in the book or the course. > > > Thanks. > > Simon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 15, 2004 Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 Bob Flaws book and distant learning course " the tao of healthy eating " touches quite a lot of foods and their description. I guess the course muss go in a lot of details, since it counts for 15 CEU, and is probably more than 10hours long. The book goes through about 40 pages of foods and their description. Hope that helps May On 15/10/04 1:30 pm, " smilinglotus " <smilinglotus wrote: > > > >> I'm wondering if anyone knows of any extensive lists of foods with CM >> descriptions (flavour, nature, affected organs etc) available on the >> web? > > Unfortunately, there is very little material on TCM dietary therapy in > English that is translated from primary Chinese sources at this time. > You may be able to find information on the internet by searching in > Chinese, but that may or not be helpful to you. Let us know if you > find something interesting in either language. > > Eric > > > Chinese Medicine , " wackname " > <wackname> wrote: >> >> >> hello again everyone. >> >> I've got a little book and am doing a short course at the moment on >> Chinese Medical Dietetics - diet therapy. the problem is that there >> are lots of foods which aren't mentioned in the book or the course. >> > >> >> Thanks. >> >> Simon > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 15, 2004 Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 Hi Simon, Over the years I have experimented with different diet principles - e.g. Macrobiotics, vegetarian, vegan, etc. and I read Flaw's book The Tao of Healthy Eating (originally Arisal of the Clear) many years ago. I really like Flaws book for its basic commonsense. More recently, I have been able to distill diet into even more simple terms - i.e.: 1) Eat small meals two or three times a day. Most people eat much, much much more than they really need. This ultimately leads to a " qi negative " situations since the body cannot effeciently transform and absorb the enormous amount of " condensed qi " (food) that is being brought into the system. 2) Eat warm, so that the body does not have to use extra energy during the transformation process. 3) Chew well for the same reason. 4) Enjoy the meal and " sense " the qi that is being released as you eat it. There can be more energy from one small apple that is " observed " than a whole meal of vegetables or meat. I practice simple qigong breathing exerciese which is a very effecient means for bringing " pure qi " into the body. This greatly reduces my need for food (condensed qi). It is well known in China as Bigu Qigong ( " no grain " qigong). If you are looking for more detailed information on foods - which never hurts but I do not really think about any more - there is Chinese Dietary Therapy, by Liu Jilin. It is a Churchill Livingstone book. Good luck with your course! Regards, Rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 15, 2004 Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 There is a nice little book written by Dang Yi called " Chinese Functional Food " ISBN 7-80005-555-8 - wackname Chinese Medicine Friday, October 15, 2004 7:22 AM TCM categorization of foods hello again everyone. I've got a little book and am doing a short course at the moment on Chinese Medical Dietetics - diet therapy. the problem is that there are lots of foods which aren't mentioned in the book or the course. I'm wondering if anyone knows of any extensive lists of foods with CM descriptions (flavour, nature, affected organs etc) available on the web? Thanks. Simon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 15, 2004 Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 Prof. Dang Yi was actually a lecturer of mine at Middlesex University. Anyway, good website for functional food: http://www.tcmcentral.com/TCM_Methods/CM_Nut.htm Kind regards Attilio D'Alberto <http://www.attiliodalberto.com/> www.attiliodalberto.com sammy_bates [sammy_bates] 15 October 2004 16:56 Chinese Medicine Re: TCM categorization of foods There is a nice little book written by Dang Yi called " Chinese Functional Food " ISBN 7-80005-555-8 - wackname Chinese Medicine Friday, October 15, 2004 7:22 AM TCM categorization of foods hello again everyone. I've got a little book and am doing a short course at the moment on Chinese Medical Dietetics - diet therapy. the problem is that there are lots of foods which aren't mentioned in the book or the course. I'm wondering if anyone knows of any extensive lists of foods with CM descriptions (flavour, nature, affected organs etc) available on the web? Thanks. Simon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 15, 2004 Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 To find out the TCM properties of foods in greater detail, your best bet is to read (or have a Chinese-speaking friend help you read) a book called the zhongguo shiliao daquan (which means, more or less, the Complete Book of Chinese Dietary Therapy). It is about 1300 pages in Chinese, or roughly 2600-3000 pages if it were translated into English, and it contains about 250 pages of materia medica-type descriptions of foods, which in English would produce a book of about 500-600 pages of dense properties, actions, indications, and classical quotes on the properties of many foodstuffs. There are several books of a similar scope in Chinese, so we are pretty much still only working at the tip of the iceberg with the English literature. The biggest problem with the English literature on foods at present is accuracy to the Chinese concepts, lots of talk of foods " tonifying the pancreas " or " adrenals " or other concepts that are totally foreign to pure TCM. Bob Flaws book that was mentioned is a solid reference for properties of foods, but it is a smaller consumer book and not a big reference book with 600 pages of food properties. A proper dietary therapy book has the potential to be a large book like a materia medica. Maybe one day we'll have such a book accessible to everyone. Eric Brand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 15, 2004 Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 Liu's book Chinese System of Food Cures is also quite good. May Lucken-Ardjomande <maylucken wrote: Bob Flaws book and distant learning course " the tao of healthy eating " touches quite a lot of foods and their description. I guess the course muss go in a lot of details, since it counts for 15 CEU, and is probably more than 10hours long. The book goes through about 40 pages of foods and their description. Hope that helps May On 15/10/04 1:30 pm, " smilinglotus " <smilinglotus wrote: > > > >> I'm wondering if anyone knows of any extensive lists of foods with CM >> descriptions (flavour, nature, affected organs etc) available on the >> web? > > Unfortunately, there is very little material on TCM dietary therapy in > English that is translated from primary Chinese sources at this time. > You may be able to find information on the internet by searching in > Chinese, but that may or not be helpful to you. Let us know if you > find something interesting in either language. > > Eric > > > Chinese Medicine , " wackname " > <wackname> wrote: >> >> >> hello again everyone. >> >> I've got a little book and am doing a short course at the moment on >> Chinese Medical Dietetics - diet therapy. the problem is that there >> are lots of foods which aren't mentioned in the book or the course. >> > >> >> Thanks. >> >> Simon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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