One of the most important steps we can take towards self-empowerment is to take responsibility for our nourishment. Recipes for Self-Healing gives us a set of tools to do this. With simplicity and elegance, this book conveys the wisdom and insights of Traditional Chinese Medicine and makes them both relevant and accessible to the modern-day Westerner. Recipes for Self-Healing includes over a hundred exhilarating recipes using familiar foods that reflect the cosmopolitan nature of Western cuisine. Its unique descriptions of each recipe’s actions will enable readers to choose foods perfectly suited to their individual needs. Above all the author emphasises dissolving concepts of good and bad foods, the important of pleasure and listening to the wisdom of the body.
Acclaim for Recipes for Self-Healing:
'A fabulous wealth of wisdom offered with clarity and wit. Daverick Leggett has written in a style that offers real understanding and insight into this fascinating approach to health and wellbeing. The recipes are lovely and make you want to get started right away! 'Recipes for Self-Healing' has wonderful accessible information for the intellect, tasty delicious food for the body and wit and levity for the spirit - the complete mind, body, spirit experience.' - Jane Sen , author of The Healing Foods Cookbook
'Daverick Leggett’s book is a timely addition to the increasing information in the West about Chinese medicine. In China everyone instinctively knows which foods are appropriate for a healthy life. We have lost this connection in the West. Daverick’s book is a reminder of its simplicity.
'Building upon solid foundations of Chinese medicine, he comprehensively lists recipes which will nourish ours souls as well as our bodies. These recipes are the practical application in the modern world of a 5000 year old medical tradition. In our increasingly frantic world such wisdoms are greatly needed. This book will be of great benefit to everyone interested in health and developing a healthy way of living.' - Dr. Stephen Gascoigne, M.B., Ch.B., C.Ac.,Dip. C.H.M., acupuncturist & herbalist
'Everyone will love this book because it is about something close to everyone’s heart - food! And not just food, nourishment. It is about getting and staying healthy by eating and enjoying delicious foods which suit you the individual; not your doctor, or your spouse, or your mother or the architect of the latest diet fad. It’s about self exploration and self understanding and appropriate self nourishment the way Chinese medicine sees it.' - Jane Lyttleton, traditional Chinese medicine practitioner and author
'This wonderful book offers words and wisdom - the intelligence and poetry of Chinese medicine reframed for modern life - to cultivate your own capacity to nourish yourself and others in accord with the unique circumstances of TODAY. What a blessing and joy!' - Edward Espe Brown, author of the Tassajara Bread Book and Tomato Blessings and Radish Teachings
'A book we’ve been waiting for! It provides a rich source of information on many aspects of Chinese medicine especially in relation to food and diet. It is a user friendly resource for practitioners, patients and all those interested in Chinese dietary therapy and combines the Chinese principles of diet in relation to foods which are easily available in the west.' - Angela Hicks, author of The Principles of Chinese Medicine & co-founder of The College of Integrated Chinese Medicine
