Natural food and healing are the hipnewjiggytight thing. From TBN (The Bible Network) to CNN, "you are what you eat" is becoming more and more accepted as the Truth by the mainstream media.
Healing With Whole Foods is the definitive resource that bridges Eastern holistic theory and the Western analytical view of medicine, food, healing, and, ultimately, life. Pitchford presents chapters on theory (
Ayurvedic,
Macrobiotic and Western Medical), diseases (cures/treatment for everything from AIDS to warts), nutrition (vitamins, minerals, oils, etc.), plus, my
favorite descriptions of the energetics and properties of specific foods — and recipes for them, too! You could live your whole life out of this thing!! I've used it as a healing and nutrition index for five years now. It just keeps providing more and more to think about and more and more frameworks within which I can analyze my own well-being. I can't say enough about it. Good good good!!!