Healing Powers of Food
 

Comprehensively researched, the 2-volume Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants and the 3-volume Encyclopedia of Foods and Their Healing Power are a concise and practical reference of the latest in food science, nutritional, botanical and pharmaceutical research.

Encyclopedia of Foods and Their Healing Power: This 3-volume, modern and concise encyclopedia presents the latest research on food science, nutrition and dietetics. Contains over 1200 pages.

• Almost 700 foods from the five continents are described; around 300 recipes with practical application in the kitchen; the disadvantages of all kinds of foods are studied in detail.
• The composition, preventive and healing values of foods and recipes are analysed in depth.
• The foods with the greatest healing power are grouped according to the organ or part of the body that benefits most.
• Almost 150 diseases are studied along with foods whose consumption it is advisable to increase or decrease in each case.
• Each chapter is dedicated to a food type and presents comprehensive charts and information boxes, comparative tables, botanical information to investigate how that food type affects our health and well being.
• Extensive table of vitamin and mineral composition of each food type; includes an index of diseases.
• Volume 3 is dedicated to recipes for the health of each body organ and lists the nutritional content of each recipe.
• Information is soundly based on the latest investigations of the main universities and research centres of Europe, America, and other continents. • Beautifully illustrated and photographed throughout.

Contents:

• Volume 1 The Science of Foods
• Food for humans
• Fruits, nuts and grains
• Legumes and vegetables
• Oils and margarine
• Sugars and sweeteners
• Dairy, eggs, meat and fish
• Condiments and spices
• Beverages
• Nutritional supplements
• Components of food
• Volume 2 The Healing Power of Foods
• Foods for each body system
• Foods for each organ
• Foods for the digestive process
• Foods for the skin
• Foods for infectious diseases
• Foods and cancer
• Foods for all stages of life
• Getting the most out of foods
• Volume 3 The Healthy Kitchen and Preventive and Curative Recipes
• Recipes for each body system
• Recipes for each organ
• Recipes for the digestive process
• Recipes for the skin
• Recipes for infectious diseases
• Recipes for cancer prevention

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Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants: A 2-volume complete, up-to-date, and scientific encyclopedia, based on rigorous botanical, pharmaceutical and chemical research. Contains 798 pages.

• More than 470 plants botanically and medically described and classified by diseases.
• Natural treatments explained and illustrated in simple and clear language. Now the healing virtues of medicinal plants and their practical applications are in reach of everyone.
• Instructions on the therapeutic preparation of fomentations, compresses, poultices, infusions, ointments, baths ...
• Numerous charts describing the most frequent disorders and the plants that have the active ingredients to heal them.
• Detailed explanation of the complex vegetable world.
• Practical step-by-step instruction for the preservation and administering of medicinal herbs and plants.
• Beautifully illustrated and photographed throughout.

Testimony: I have found that if you have a medical condition you can choose those foods that will give you the nutritional support for that condition, and avoid foods that may exacerbate the problem. These books are also great in making sure that your diet is nutritionally balanced. As a vegetarian, I find them helpful in ensuring my intake of various nutrients is sufficient. My son, Jack needs to have a gluten-free diet, so these books have been really helpful. I highly recommend these books to anyone who cares about what they eat. After all, you are what you eat.                --Kate Suchanek - Pharmacist

Contents:

Volume 1 Generalities

• The vegetable world
• Gathering and preservation
• Methods for preparing and using
• plants
• Active principles
• Caution: plant toxicity
• From the plant to the medicine

Volume 2 Description

• Plants for each body system
• Plants for each organ
• Plants for the skin
• Plants for the metabolism
• Plants for infectious diseases
• Plants for other ailments

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