Early Daoist dietary practices : examining ways to health and longevity / Shawn Arthur.

Focusing on the early medieval herbal recipes found in the Lingbao Wufuxu (The Preface to the Five Lingbao Talismans of Numinous Treasure), this study analyses Daoist asceticism and ideas regarding the body, health, grain avoidance diets, the Three Worms, and immortality. Arthur examines the synthes...

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Main Author: Arthur, Shawn (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2013]
Series:Studies in body and religion.
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