Traditional and Modern Healing Practices for Everyday Wellness.
Japanese American herbalist and acupuncturist Erin Masako Wilkins shares accessible and comprehensive herbal wellness practices, remedies, and recipes, rooted in Asian tradition for optimal health.
Erin Masako Wilkins is a California-based herbalist and acupuncturist. In Asian American Herbalism, Wilkins shares a beautifully illustrated and photographed collection of herbal recipes, remedies, and wellness practices. Rooted in East Asian history and culture, these offerings will help the reader to prevent illness and restore health and vitality.
This comprehensive wellness guide offers 100 easy and accessible herbal recipes to heal, uplift, and improve the quality of daily life and includes recipes such as Loquat cough syrup for a lingering cough, Okayu (Japanese rice porridge) for recovering from illness, fresh mulberry sweet tea or an infusion of marshmallow leaf and rose to ease digestive woes.
The first contemporary book exploring the intersection of American folk herbalism and traditional Chinese medicine by an AAPI author, Asian American Herbalism is filled with practical remedies easy enough for even the busiest reader to implement and beautiful enough to display on a shelf or coffee table. An exploration of what it means to practice traditional Asian medicine in the context of modern-day life, it is the perfect health and wellness reference guide for our time.
