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Eating and Healing: Traditional Food As Medicine

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This book explores this gray area between food and medicine and the diverse ways in which these two cosmos overlap and penetrate each other in traditional and indigenous cultures. And looks in depth at the wild and semidomesticated foods-wild plants, seaweed, mushrooms, fish, and more-that different cultures use as medicines and remedies. The book divided 16 chapters. Chapter 1 discuss edible wild plants as food and as medicine: reflections on thirty years of fieldwork. Chapter 2 discuss Tibetan foods and medicines: antioxidants as mediators of high-altitude nutritional physiology, Chapter 3 discuss wild food plants in farming environments with special reference to Northeast Thailand, food as functional and medicinal, and the social roles of women. Chapter 4 discuss functional foods or food medicines? On the concumption of wild plants among Albanians and Southern Italians in Lucania. Chapter 5 discuss digestive beverages as a medicinal food in a cattle-farming community in Northern Spain (campo, Cantabria). Chapter 6 is "the forest and the seawed": gitga'at seawed, traditional ecological knowledge, and community survival. Chapter 7 discuss medicinal herb quality in the United States: bridging perspectives with Chinesemedical theory. Chapter 8 discuss balancing the system: humoral medicine and food in the Commonwealth of Dominica. Chapter 9 discuss medicinal foods in Cuba: promoting health in the household. Chapter 10 discuss healthy fish: medicinal and recommended species in the amazon and the forest coast. Chapter 11 discuss edible and healing plants in the ethnobotany of native inhabitants of the amazon and atlantic forest areas of Brazil. Chapter 12 discuss food medicines in the Bolivian andes (apillapampa, Cochabamba department). Chapter 13 discuss gathering of wild plant foods with medicinal use in a mapuche community of Northwest Patagonia. Chapter1 4 discuss dietary and medicinal use of traditional herbs among the Luo of Western Kenya. Chapter 15 discuss ethnomycology in Africa, with particular reference to the rain forest zone of South Cameroon. Capter 16 discuss aspects of food medicine and ethnopharmacology in Morocco.

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615.3-2 Pie E

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New York : Food Roducts Press., 2006

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ed.1-cet.1. xviii, 406 hal. Ilus. ; 21,5 cm Index.

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Indonesia

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978-1-56022-983-4

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615.3-2 Pie E

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