Description: Further DetailsTitle: Early Daoist Dietary PracticesCondition: NewSubtitle: Examining Ways to Health and LongevityISBN-10: 073917892XEAN: 9780739178928ISBN: 9780739178928Publisher: Lexington BooksFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 06/27/2013Description: Much as the modern Western world is concerned with diets, health, and anti-aging remedies, many early medieval Chinese Daoists also actively sought to improve their health and increase their longevity through specialized ascetic dietary practices. Focusing on a fifth-century manual of herbal-based, immortality-oriented recipes—the Lingbao Wufuxu (The Preface to the Five Lingbao Talismans of Numinous Treasure)—Shawn Arthur investigates the diets, their ingredients, and their expected range of natural and supernatural benefits. Analyzing the ways that early Daoists systematically synthesized religion, Chinese medicine, and cosmological correlative logic, this study offers new understandings of important Daoist ideas regarding the body’s composition and mutability, health and disease, grain avoidance (bigu) diets, the parasitic Three Worms, interacting with the spirit realm, and immortality. This work also employs a range of cross-disciplinary scientific and medical research to analyze the healing properties of Daoist self-cultivation diets and to consider some natural explanations for better understanding Daoist asceticism and its underlying world view.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 159mmItem Width: 24mmItem Weight: 608gAuthor: Shawn ArthurGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Studies in Body and ReligionTopic: MedicineRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Early Daoist Dietary Practices
Title: Early Daoist Dietary Practices
Subtitle: Examining Ways to Health and Longevity
ISBN-10: 073917892X
EAN: 9780739178928
ISBN: 9780739178928
Release Date: 06/27/2013
Release Year: 2013
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Medicine
Number of Pages: 416 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Early Daoist Dietary Practices : Examining Ways to Health and Longevity
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Subject: Taoism (See Also Philosophy / Taoist), General, Healthy Living, Longevity, Diet Therapy, Diet & Nutrition / General
Publication Year: 2013
Item Height: 0.9 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 21.5 Oz
Author: Shawn Arthur
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion, Health & Fitness, Medical
Series: Studies in Body and Religion Ser.
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Hardcover
