Eating and healing traditional food as medicine

• Other Authors: Pieroni, Andrea (Editor), Price, Lisa Leimar (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Food Products Press 2006
• Subjects: Diet Therapy; Plants, Edible; Plants, Medicinal; Medicine, Traditional
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• Physical Description: xviii, 406 pages illustrations 22 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9781560229827; 1560229829; 9781560229834; 1560229837

The long-standing notion of "food as medicine, medicine as food," can be traced back to Hippocrates. Eating and Healing: Traditional Food As Medicine is a global overview of wild and semi-domesticated foods and their use as medicine in traditional societies. Important cultural information, along with extensive case studies, provides a clear, authoritative look at the many neglected food sources still being used around the world today. This book bridges the scientific disciplines of medicine, food science, human ecology, and environmental sciences with their ethno-scientific counterparts of ethnobotany, ethnoecology, and ethnomedicine to provide a valuable multidisciplinary resource for education and instruction