Helping Ourselves: Guide to Traditional Chinese Food Energetics

Good reference book that is a companion to other work by Daverick Leggett. If you're looking for a greater understanding of how the body uses nutrition, based on the Chinese philosophy of health and food, but written for the Western reader, give this a chance. It looks at the individual and their health needs. Well written and easily explained, with food available everywhere.

Fantastic book with appropriate advice following consultation with Traditional Chinese Therapist. Very helpful dietary support.

For anyone interested in gaining insight into the energetics of food and how that can effect health, from a Traditional Chinese Medicine viewpoint, this book is a really good introduction to the subject.

The book itself is great, but the copy I received was covered in tippex. It was a shame. It made it very difficult to read.

Thank you for your good item and quick response. It has been very useful and will tell others about it.

Wonderful book if you want to have some knowledge about how food influences our body.

About as useful as a chocolate fire guard.

Well recommended. I suggest Olson getting Daverick's Recipes for Self Healing, which complements this well.

This book is the most thorough and pinpointed grocery "shopping list" that I have found... it makes all of the mysterious and voluminous TCM information much clearer and useable. You can self-assess your symptoms, and then find foods that help mitigate the issues you are experiencing. Before finding this book, I waded through tons of material on the web -- excellent but conflicting/hard-to-understand information written by TCM practitioners. Daverick Leggett made this information accessible, and I was able to pull together a "shopping list" -- a new strategy to address my health issues -- in just one afternoon.

this book analyzes the properties of food according to traditional chinese medicine and details the function of spleen. it's very well written and exhaustive. excellent purchase and self-help reference.

Excellent seller and book. Thank you, A.Ault

This is a very rudimentary overview of a very complex system (Traditional Chinese Medicine). It is well written & the information is easy to understand. It is somewhat adapted to more common western ingredients, which is a plus for me, as a lot of the dietary suggestions of TCM are a bit of a stretch as far as ingredient acquisition/sourcing. I am using this as a resource to guide my own diet, in addition to a few other books I have. The book itself is a bit funny looking, but it gets the job done. I am happy to have it as a resource & will surely refer back to it, especially when I need to explain things in an easy to understand manner to friends & family. Thank you!

Great book, as a TCM student very easy to read and digest