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Health Care with Food is a natural healing process as advocated by
the Father of Medicine, Hippocrates: "Natural forces within us are the true
healers of disease... Let food be your medicine... ." Practiced as alternative medicine as opposed to the conventional doctors'
medicine, this prescribed home health care and cure from mother nature is safe, easy, convenient,
and provide great beauty and health benefits. The use of drugs as insurance to long term health is suspect
mainly due to its addictive nature and chemical and synthetic composition which is potentially dangerous to our human body.
[This is a free-to-use health care database of food
medicine compiled from medical sources all over the
world: Chinese, the Malay Archipelago, Arab, Indian and certain western traditions.
Bookmark this database: Just as food
medicine is freely available for you in your home, so is this database.
There are fees, registrations or subscriptions required.]
Food has been regarded as potent medicine for thousands of years. But thanks to pharmaceutical drugs
(processed chemicals mostly from herbs and plant substances),
it has been pushed to the backseat; pill popping is convenient compared to
the diligent study of food pharmacology.
Food do contain pharmacological agents, in fact, our everyday food in our diet is full of them.
Imagine shopping for natural laxatives, painkillers, contraceptives,
antibiotics, antidepressants, cholesterol controllers, anticoagulants, and many
more from the grocery store instead of the pharmacy; or learning of new recipes,
changing our eating habits, and eating various foods in the right proportion to
ward off disease. Making full use of the therapeutic powers of food is no longer
folklore. Food as medicine is real; thousands of scientific
research papers had
been established, tests validated, doctors and scientists themselves amazed at
the powers of the food pharmacy. Why shouldn't they, and we - because food, after all, is the most potent drug of them all!
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