Early Daoist dietary practices : examining ways to health and longevity

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.
Subjects:
Nutrition > Religious aspects > Taoism.
Diet in disease.
Medicine > Religious aspects.
Diet therapy.
Health behavior.
Longevity.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Healthy Living.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
Medicine > Religious aspects
Longevity
Health behavior
Diet therapy
Diet in disease
Nutrition > Religious aspects > Taoism
Online Access:Click for online access
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Summary: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 synthesis of religion, medicine, and correlative cosmology, while also employing scientific and medical research to analyze the healing properties and underlying worldview of Daoist self-cultivation diets.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 276 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0739178938
9780739178935
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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