13.8cm¡Á20.3cm,

181 pages, 1988. 

ISBN

7-119-01885-X/R.136

Published by Beijing Foreign Languages Press.

PREFACE

I. What Is Dietotherapy?

II A Time-Honoured Discipline, Historical Background

III. Features of Dietotherapy

IV. Varieties of Medicinal Foods

V. The range of Medicinal Foods

VI. Special Foods for Common Medial Problems

A. Internal Problems

1. Common cold

2. Influenza (flu)

3. Bronchitis

4. Infectious hepatitis

5. Mumps (parotitis)

6. Dysentery

7. Malaria

8. Iron-deficient anaemia

9. Allergic Purpura

10. Hypertension

11. Diabetes mellitus

12. Simple goiter

13. Nephritic edema

14. Rheumatism of joints and cartilage

15. Vertigo (Meniere's syndrome)

16. Epilepsy

17. Headache

18. Diarrhoea

19. Allergic asthma

20. Intestinal obstruction due to ascariasis

21. Alcoholic poisoning

22. White hair

23. Insomnia

24. dyspepsia

25. Impotence

26. Hiccups

27. Habitual constipation

28. Hoarseness

29. Enuresis (bed-wetting)

30 Sweating

31. Hyperlipemia (hypercholesterolemia)

32. Gout

33. Overweight

B. External Problems

1. Urticaria (nettle rash)

2. boils and carbuncles

3. Tuberculous lymphadenitis

4. Hypertrophic prostatic gland

C. Female Problems

1. Mastitis

2. Premature menstruation

3. Delayed menstruation

4. Leucorrhoea

5. Dysmenorrhea

6. Insufficiency of postpartum milk secretion

7. Lactation cessation

D. Childhood Problems

1. Chicken pox

2. Eczema

3. Anorexia

E. Problems of Eyes, Nose and Throat

1. Fishbone in throat

2. Epistaxis (nasal bleeding)

3. Sty

4. Redeye

5. Running nose

6. sore throat

VII. COMMON MEDICINAL FOODS

A. Plants

1. Chinese onion (shallot)

2. Garlic

3. coriander (Chinese parsley)

4. Chinese Chives

5. Celery

6. Cogongrass root

7. spinach

8. Purslane

9. Peppermint

10. Capillary artemisia

11. auricular auricular-jade (an edible fungus)

12. Cinnamon bark

13. Tea

14. seaweed

15. Kelp

16. Laver

B. Roots and Stems

1. Ginger

2. Lily

3. Sweet potato

4. Potato

5. Water chestnut

6. Polygonum multiflorum (the tuber of multiflower knotweed)

7. Taro

8. Alli macrostem's bulb

9. Chinese yam

10. Turnip

11. Carrot

12. Wild rice stem

13. Sugar cane

14. Lotus root

15. Onion

C. Flowers, Seeds, gourds and Fruits

1. Osmanthus flower

2. Chrysanthemum

3. Day lily

4. Tomato

5. Peanut

6. Red bean

7. Hyacinth bean

8. Cowpea

9. Broad bean

10. Black bean

11. Green bean

12. Soybean

13. Palm starch grain

14. Husked sorghum

15. Maize

16. Wheat

17. Barley

18. rice

19. Chestnut

20. Fruit of Chinese wolfberry

21. Fructus Amomi

22. Pepper

23. Chilli

24. Chinese Prickly ash

25. Aniseed

26. Clove

27. Olive

28. Sunflower

29. Seeds of Job's -tears

30. Hawthorn

31, Sesame

32. Eggplant

33. Calabash

34. White gourd (wax gourd)

35. Pumpkin

36. Watermelon

37. Dark plum

38. Chinese dates (including wild jujube)

39. Pear

40. Persimmon

41. Loquat

42. Tangerine

43. Banana

44. Pomegranate

45. Almond

46. Papaya

47. gingko

48. Walnut

49. Mulberry fruit

50. Dried longan pulp

51. Grape

52. Guava

53. Bitter gourd

54. Carambola

55. Betel nut

56. Cucumber

D. Meat, Fowl and Seafood

1. Chicken

2. Duck

3. Sparrow

4. Cormorant

5. Pig

6. Sheep

7. Cow

8. Dog

9. Rabbit

10. Carp

11. Cuttlefish (Inkfish)

12. Snakehead fish

13. Finless eel

14. Loach

15. Tortoise

16. Soft-shelled turtle

17. Freshwater clam

18. River snail

19. Oyster

20. Jellyfish

E. Processed Foods and Flavourings

1. Salt

2. Alcoholic drinks

3. Vinegar

4. Processed soybean

5. Scorched rice crust

6. Sugar

7. Honey

Appendix 1. Manifestations of Cold, Heat, Deficiency and Excesses in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Appendix 2. Manifestations of Excess and Deficiency in Blood and Vital Energy (qi)

Appendix 3. Nature of Everyday Food (in alphabetical order)