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# Fully revised & expanded edition 300+ foods & 150 herbs cataloged Simple diagnostic patterns explained Helping Ourselves: Guide to Traditional Chinese Food Energetics

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## Summary

> 🌱 Nourish your body the ancient way — because your health deserves the best!

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## Key Features

- • **Practical & Accessible:** Perfect for practitioners, students, and health-conscious professionals seeking actionable dietary insights.
- • **Expanded & Updated Content:** Benefit from the fully revised edition, ensuring the latest knowledge and practical advice at your fingertips.
- • **Bridging East & West Nutrition:** Written for Western readers, this guide connects ancient Chinese wisdom with modern nutritional needs.
- • **User-Friendly Diagnostic Guides:** Master basic Chinese Medicine diagnostic patterns with clear, one-page explanations designed for quick reference.
- • **Comprehensive Food & Herb Database:** Explore 300+ common foods and 150 Western herbs with detailed energetic properties to tailor your nutrition.

## Overview

Helping Ourselves is a fully revised and expanded beginner’s guide to nutrition through Traditional Chinese Medicine principles. Featuring simple diagnostic patterns and detailed charts of over 300 foods and 150 herbs, it empowers practitioners, students, and health enthusiasts to personalize their diet for optimal healing and balance.

## Description

Helping Ourselves is a beginners guide to nutrition according to the principles of Chinese Medicine. It is a user friendly practical guide, ideally suited to practitioners, students and clients of Chinese medicine as well as those interested more generally in nutrition. The book contains simple one page explanations of each basic diagnostic pattern and the foods that will assist its healing. Helping Ourselves includes charts listing the properties of about 300 common foods and 150 western herbs. It also includes a section on diagnosis. This popular reference manual can also be used as the companion volume to its sequel, Recipes for Self Healing.

Review: What shall I eat today? - Good reference book that is a companion to other work by Daverick Leggett. If you're looking for a greater understanding of how the body uses nutrition, based on the Chinese philosophy of health and food, but written for the Western reader, give this a chance. It looks at the individual and their health needs. Well written and easily explained, with food available everywhere.
Review: Five Stars - Fantastic book with appropriate advice following consultation with Traditional Chinese Therapist. Very helpful dietary support.

## Features

- Fully revised and expanded edition

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 332,308 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 1,776 in Popular Medicine 2,900 in General Medical Issues Guides 5,100 in Diets & Healthy Eating |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 224 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What shall I eat today?
*by T***L on 1 February 2016*

Good reference book that is a companion to other work by Daverick Leggett. If you're looking for a greater understanding of how the body uses nutrition, based on the Chinese philosophy of health and food, but written for the Western reader, give this a chance. It looks at the individual and their health needs. Well written and easily explained, with food available everywhere.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars
*by C***E on 5 September 2015*

Fantastic book with appropriate advice following consultation with Traditional Chinese Therapist. Very helpful dietary support.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent information in this book.
*by N***O on 24 January 2024*

For anyone interested in gaining insight into the energetics of food and how that can effect health, from a Traditional Chinese Medicine viewpoint, this book is a really good introduction to the subject.

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*Last updated: 2026-08-03*