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Title: One of My Favorite Books on Medicine, Healing, and Diet
Review: This book has a lot of good pictures and diagrams to illustrate its ideas. It goes into the five elements theory, the five seasons (winter, spring, summer, fall, and doyo), diagnosis using fingernails and facial characteristics, yin and yang in regards to diet, and a section on herbs. I found the herbs to work for me and learned especially about the value of ginger and ginger compresses. The use of teas is also good in the book. I applied the ginger compress mentioned in this over over a blister on my mother that had even broken skin and did not heal for two weeks. It went away overnight without a trace! In terms of Macrobiotic Diet Books, the addition of the Five Elements and the Five Seasons is an important balance to merely emphasizing yin and yang foods.
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