Medicinal Cookery
Welcome to the recipes page. The recipes here are mostly based around Dale's 'Medicinal Cookery System'. They are designed to show you how simple and delicious good food can be, and how we can create a pleasurable way of enhancing our health. These recipes are NOT designed to be a replacement of your regular medicine. It is Dale's firm belief that food is a major player in health and recovery, but shouldnt necessarily be seen as an 'alternative'. These recipes are designed to give you the tools to enhance your health, one bite at a time, knowing that what you are doing is safe, healthy, delicious, and can be used alongside your doctors treatment with safety and ease, and a whole lot of pleasure to boot.
Dale has a background in both nutrition and herbal medicine, plus many years working as a wholefoods chef. This combination has served him well. His training in herbal medicine enabled him to gain an understanding into the way in which specific plant compounds and chemicals interact with Human physiological function. Many of these compounds are present in the foods that we eat, not just in medicinal plants. Many foods have their own unique chemistry that can deliver some mesmerising results when we apply them properly. Recipes can be developed to target specific health concerns, body systems, or physiological functions. We can combine ingredients based upon their active chemistry, and how they will complement each other to give a complete targeted therapeutic effect. Whilst many of these compounds havent been clinically tested in the traditional sense, we do know a huge amount about how they work in physiological systems.
The Medicinal Cookery System has been designed in such a way that recipes are compiled to target the individual's specific health concerns, or specific body systems or tissues. The recipes here are general favourites that you may like to try.
Let us know how you get on!