Zen Macro-Biotics-the art of rejuvination and longevity-The Philosophy of Oriental Medicine Volume One

by Georges Ohsawa

1965

Library's review

Georges Ohsawa (Yukikazu Sakurazawa) was born in Kyoto, the old capital of Japan, on October 18, 1893. He is the author of over three hundered books, ten of which have been published in France since 1926. His best seller is A New Theory of Nutrition and Its Therapeutic Effect, written and published
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in Japan in 1920 and now in its seven-hundredth edition. He has spent thirty years introducing Oriental culture to Europe while simultaneously interpreting the culture of the West for Japan. Among his many translations into Japanese are Man, the Unknown by Alexis Carrel and The Meeting of East and West by F.S.C. Northrop.

Japanese name, Sakurazawa Nyoichi

Contents

Works by Georges Ohsawa
Preface by Shayne Oles Suehle
Foreword
Preface-From Health to Peace
To My readers
Chapter I
Macrobiotics and Oriental Medical Philosophy
The Purpose of This Book
The Philosophy of the Far East
Chapter II
What is My Therapy?
Unhappiness, Illness and Crime
Incurable Disease In Man
Three Categories of Cure
What We Must Not Cure
Satori
Courage, Honesty, Justice
Tolerance
Chapter III
The Seven Conditions of Health
Chapter IV
If You Have Faith
You Should Have Infinite Freedom
You must Be Your Own Doctor
Chapter V
Ten Healthful Ways of Eating and Drinking
Chewing
Less Liquids
Delicious Macrobiotic Cuisine
Good Things to eat
Chapter VI
Principal Food
Chapter VII
Special Dishes
Chapter VIII
Yin-Yang Theory
Macrobiotic Table of Foods
Remarks
Macrobiotic Recipes
Editor's Note
Chapter IX
Suggestions for Macrobiotic Treatment of Disease
Macrobiotic External Treatment
Chapter X
Specific Dietary Suggestions for Disease
Chapter XI
Macrobiotic Food for Infants
Schematic Feeding Table for Infants
General Care of Young Children
Bio-chemical Transmutations
Macrobiotics and Old Age
Chapter XII
On Cooking
Salt-A New Superstition
Folk Medicine
Your Case History
Appendices
I. Preview of the Death Certificate for a World Civilization
II. The Order of the Universe; Twelve Theorems of the Unique Principle; The Seven Stages of Judgment; The Seven Stages of Illness; The Origin of Man's Thoughts and Actions; Dictionary of Macrobiotic Terms; Footnotes; Bibliography; About the Autho
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the Ohsawa Foundation, inc.
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