Does Whole Foods Provide Healing? #2

Healing with Whole Foods Series #2
Paul Pitchford

The information in this book will help ensure better results. Healing with food is not haphazard. Food acts according to its various therapeutic properties, although its properties are often less specific and its actions less drastic than those of herbs or other medicines. Food also acts as a foundation medicine. It is sometimes slower to take effect, but more profoundly affects all systems of the body. If diet is used correctly for prevention and treatment, other medicines are required less, if at all.

A major complaint of people who begin the study of diet is conflicting views in almost all sources of information. This book is written in part to resolve those conflicts by acting as a guide for individual diagnosis and the healing properties of various foods. With knowledge of how foods act in the body and the ability to self-evaluate, the reader can learn which foods and diets are best for his or her particular constitution and condition. Knowing only vitamin, mineral, and general nutrient properties is not enough.

East Asian medicine offers another dimension to food analysis. Thousands of years ago, master healers in China perceived a way to classify food and disease according to simple, easily observed patterns:


one eats cooling foods for overheated conditions, and warming foods are best for people who feel too cold. Detoxifying foods are for those who carry excess toxins, building foods are good for deficient persons, and so on. This system can be highly effective even if the medical name of a disease is not known. For this reason we* have included the foundations of traditional Chinese diagnosis and treatment, so that all imbalances, regardless of their disease name, can be treated dietarily.

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