Dietetics — or the art of healing through food — is an important, though often little-known, part of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Drawing on the specific properties of foods to correct imbalances, it helps maintain health and vitality and prevent many illnesses.

To this end, it favours a varied, high-quality and personalised diet: suited to the place and season, but also to the person's age, activity and state of health. By combining the benefits of foods with those of many medicinal plants, it offers effective means of prevention and treatment.

In this beautifully illustrated book you will discover: the foundations of Chinese medicine and dietetics (Yin and Yang, the digestive process according to Chinese medicine…); the foods and medicinal plants to favour for your health; the most common health disorders and the natural remedies to prefer against overweight, constipation, insomnia…; many tasty recipes (juices, soups, cooked dishes, medicinal wines…) in the service of your health.

Practical and accessible to all, whatever your level of knowledge, this book will appeal to both natural medicine practitioners and newcomers.