Raw Chi: Balancing the Raw Food Diet with Chinese Herbs

REHMANNIA DEAN THOMAS IS A MASTER TONIC HERBALIST IN THE 5000 YEAR OLD GATE OF LIFE LINEAGE. HE HAS CREATED PRODUCTS FOR MANY WELL KNOWN COMPANIES SUCH AS CAP BEAUTY , MOONJUICE, SHAMAN SHACK AND MORE. I JUST STARTED READING THIS BOOK AND I AM ALREADY BLOWN AWAY BY HIS VAST KNOWLEDGE. IVE BEEN PLANT BASED FOR MANY YEARS AND WAS LOOKING FOR SOME HELP WITH GUT ISSUES. IVE BEEN TO SEVERAL TCM DRS AND WAS TOLD NOT TO EAT RAW FOODS. I FOUND REHMANNIA AND IT HAS BEEN SUCH A BLESSING. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND BOTH OF HIS BOOKS.ALSO, HE HAS A NEW LINE OF HIS OWN CUSTOM BLENDED SUPER TONICS THAT WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON. THEY ARE NOTHING SHORT OF INCREDIBLE!

It was a great beginners book for balancing your chi with raw food and herbs. I learned a lot. Would love to see an expanded version.

Good book for people trying to change their diet for '"raw".Some of information about being raw veg you could not find anywhere else (yet).I gave it three stars instead of four because illustrations are B/W and not the best quality.I think all the books about herbs should have color illustrations.

Dean chunked 30+ years of Chinese Medicine into a concise, easy to read and engaging book. I enjoyed all the history of the tonic herbs, as well as recipes. Most of all, I appreciated how simply he explained complex concepts of traditional chinese medicine. This is a great into book into TCM and tonic herbs, especially for those whom sway on the more raw food diet.

Helpful, concise book. His recommendations make sense for the raw food diet. Benefited by using his ShapeShifter product which I bought at Thrive Market.

This guy claims to practice a 5,000 year old tradition of herbalism...but the earliest herbal texts in China are from around year 0, making any herbal "tradition" only about 2,000 years old...if there was even a lineage that was kept intact. In his case, there wasn't. He never graduated from a TCM school (the places which actually teach herbal medicine), and he is unlicensed to practice any form of medicine in any state or country. Using Chinese herbs without knowledge is dangerous...just because it's natural doesn't mean it's good for you. Poison ivy is natural...want to eat some of that? Herbs require skilled diagnosis, and it has to match up with what the patient needs...a good herb given at the wrong time is a bad herb.This book provides only false information by a false source...avoid it at all cost.

This book was a very insightful read. I always wondered why TCM discourages the high-raw diet, especially for women. Now I see why, but Rehmannia offers a much welcomed solution: including elixirs to “warm the middle Jiao” along with the raw food diet, to help warm the digestive organs and help avoid fluid buildup as edema. And I learned a lot about anatomy of the metabolic system and blood vitality. This book may provide the perfect scenario for a super-healthy diet. Thank you Rehmannia!

Je suis devenue il y a quelque mois crudivore. C'est à dire une alimentation végétalienne crue. Mon état de santé a progressé de façon fulgurante. Mais j'ai eu un peu froid et un peu de rétention d'eau sur le ventre. Lors d'une vidéo sur Youtube d'une crudivore américaine Dara Dubinet, j'ai vu une vidéo avec comme invité Dean Thomas, l'auteur de ce livre. Tous mes symptômes y étaient mentionnés. J'ai donc décidé de l'acheter. La livraison a été rapide. Seul regret, l'absence de photo en couleurs.Je suis donc allée acheter des herbes chinoises à Paris pour faire mes tonics chauds. Je pense que cette médecine chinoise vielle de 5000 ans tout comme la médecine indienne Ayurvédique doivent avoir des résultats probants pour exister encore de nos jours.Je viens de commencer, donc pas encore de recul. Mais j'ai été ravie du livre.

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