How to Use 50 Everyday and Exotic Spices to Boost Health and Beat Disease

To me, the excellently written descriptions motivate a trip to the store to try all of them out! So well organized and authoritative this may be the first and only book you'll need on this subject. Excellent writer!

I bought this book for myself, glanced through it, my brother came over and wanted to borrow it as soon as I was through with it, since I still had several months to work before retiring, I told him to take it home and bring back when he was through with it. Well I've been retired for two months and he loves it so much wants me to order him one. He says it is a great book, good price, great transaction, fast shipping.

Informative, inspiring, well written, scientifically validated, actionable and beautiful! This book inspired me to revamp my spice shelf, and remains a frequently used source of information. Highly recommended!

Interesting history of discovery and use of spices. Description of each spice's healing qualities and recipes in which they are included. Very useful and interesting book that I own and give as gifts, as well.

Great book, you learn something everyday and as I read this book on different spices I have learned other uses for things and have found I have opened a new world of spices that I would never have tried.

Excellent book about herbs and how to use them in your cooking. If you aren't familiar with herbs I highly recommend this book. I am learning something new all the time and this book contributes to that, love it.

Avery interesting book. It gave me many ideas on how to use spices to help with indigestion and
Acid reflux. I hate using meds that can cause side effects and learning how spices can help you.
The statements are very clear and the pictures of the spices are very good.

I got this book from the library and then decided to buy it. It has so much information in it that you just need to have it on hand as a reference. Overall, I love it and am grateful to the author for writing it and making all this research accessible to the general public. I agree with someone else here who was annoyed that there are no footnotes, but I decided that given the target audience for the book, that was probably a wise editorial decision. He DOES say, in discussing studies, whether the research was in test tubes, animals, or people, and how big a study it was if it was a human study, so it's not just this vague "has been effective against X condition," which you often see out there. I appreciate that he talks some about the scientific, cell-level dynamics of why something works. And he usually mentions the name of the journal that a study was published in. Each spice's section contains a list of other spices it pairs well with and examples of foods that it goes well with. I don't eat animal products (and there's plenty of medical research supporting THAT health decision, too!) and I wish more of the suggestions and recipes were for vegetarian meals, but I think it's easily enough adapted and even though this is not really a cookbook per se, I do look forward to trying some of the sauces, although I'll be putting them over tempeh or veggies. I think the book would be even more useful if the index were more thorough and the chart at the back where you can look up conditions more detailed. Several times now, I have remembered reading about some spice that's effective against some malady, and I can't remember which spice it was, and no searches in the index or in that chart (which is helpful but not as complete as it could be) have turned it up. So if you actually had a diagnosis of something, you might have to read the whole book all over again looking for that one tidbit you remember seeing! The chart by conditions at the end lists 41 different spices with anti-cancer properties. Most of them have demonstrated effectiveness against one or several different types of cancer. So if you wanted to look up spices you could use to prevent or help fight breast cancer or melanoma, for instance, you'd have to go back through all 41 of those on the list looking for the ones relevant to a particular cancer. So whoever was in charge of making indexing decisions didn't go as good a job on this job as the author did in compiling all this scientific evidence.I appreciate the tips on how to choose and store the spices, too. I wish there were more recommendations about the AMOUNT that you need to consume to achieve these benefits. But since the research is not quite there yet for many of these, he would be over-reaching to have that because in most cases, it would be pure conjecture. He does have recommended amounts when there are relevant clinical trials that have shown results at specific levels.

Love this book. Believe that diet is very important to overall health and the type of food you eat and the way it is cooked with herbs and spices affects health. Tons of great information about spices and how they affect the body, along with recipes to help you add them to your diet. Great information. It's a fantastic read and the recipes are all great!

So with getting older and aches and pains we learned a few things which motivated us to find out more details. This is like the perfect book to use. It was recommended to us and it's everything we expected.

There are really two completely different reviews I want to do for this book. The first is for the history, research studies and content on each spice. The second is for the recipes at the end of each spice description. The first is 5 stars. There is a lot of great, easy to read and understand info on each spice, its history, traditional use, research studies/medical use, etc. The recipes on the other hand are terrible. How on earth someone who wrote a book on healing spices can use canola oil as the primary cooking oil in just about every recipe is beyond me. Canola oil is poison and shouldnt be used by anyone, ever. The traditional cooking oil of India is GHEE and he makes no mention of using ghee anywhere. All of these healing spices should be cooked in ghee, not Canola oil.

A good book for anyone looking for resources to help them make postitive changes in their diet and who is looking for ways to new flavours into their food that will also have the benefit of supporting their body's efforts to restore healthy balance to the body..

I am finding this book very interesting. Since I love to cook and use a lot of spices, this book is a great edition to my cookbook collection. It is very easy to include specific spices and hopefully gain health benefits. I have tried a few of the suggested cures and they have made a difference in my condition.

Our Botany Study Group ordered this book after one member brought it to our meeting. We all love this book and find it to be a great resource. It is written in easy-to-understand, lay terms. I recently noticed that a worker in a specialty tea shop was using it as a reference also!