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Early Daoist Dietary Practices: Examining Ways to Health and Longevity

Early Daoist Dietary Practices: Examining Ways to Health and Longevity

Arthur, Shawn

Paperback

Series: Studies in Body and Religion

Health GeneralMetaphysical GeneralTaoism

ISBN10: 1498521045
ISBN13: 9781498521048
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Aug 18 2015
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Much as the modern Western world is concerned with diets, health, and anti-aging remedies, many early medieval Chinese Daoists also actively sought to improve their health and increase their longevity through specialized ascetic dietary practices. Focusing on a fifth-century manual of herbal-based, immortality-oriented recipes--the Lingbao Wufuxu (The Preface to the Five Lingbao Talismans of Numinous Treasure)--Shawn Arthur investigates the diets, their ingredients, and their expected range of natural and supernatural benefits. Analyzing the ways that early Daoists systematically synthesized religion, Chinese medicine, and cosmological correlative logic, this study offers new understandings of important Daoist ideas regarding the body's composition and mutability, health and disease, grain avoidance (bigu) diets, the parasitic Three Worms, interacting with the spirit realm, and immortality. This work also employs a range of cross-disciplinary scientific and medical research to analyze the healing properties of Daoist self-cultivation diets and to consider some natural explanations for better understanding Daoist asceticism and its underlying world view.

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