Download or read book Bitter Leaf written by Chioma Okereke and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bitter Leaf is a richly textured and intricate novel set in Mannobe, a world that is African in nature but never geographically placed. At the heart of the novel is the village itself and its colourful cast of inhabitants: Babylon, a gifted musician who falls under the spell of the beautiful Jericho who has recently returned from the city; Mabel and M’elle Codon, twin sisters whose lives have taken very different paths, Magdalena, daughter of Mabel, who nurses an unrequited love for Babylon and Allegory, the wise old man who adheres to tradition. As lives and relationships change and Mannobe is challenged by encroaching development, the fragile web of dependency holding village life together is gradually revealed. An evocatively imagined debut novel from a promising new writer about love and loss, parental and filial bonds, and everything in between that makes life bittersweet.
Download or read book A Leaf In The Bitter Wind written by Ting-Xing Ye and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 1998-03-16 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the best ways to understand history is through eye-witness accounts. Ting-Xing Ye’s riveting first book, A Leaf in the Bitter Wind, is a memoir of growing up in Maoist China. It was an astonishing coming of age through the turbulent years of the Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1974). In the wave of revolutionary fervour, peasants neglected their crops, exacerbating the widespread hunger. While Ting-Xing was a young girl in Shanghai, her father’s rubber factory was expropriated by the state, and he was demoted to a labourer. A botched operation left him paralyzed from the waist down, and his health deteriorated rapidly since a capitalist’s well-being was not a priority. He died soon after, and then Ting-Xing watched her mother’s struggle with poverty end in stomach cancer. By the time she was thirteen, Ting-Xing Ye was an orphan, entrusted with her brothers and sisters to her Great-Aunt, and on welfare. Still, the Red Guards punished the children for being born into the capitalist class. Schools were being closed; suicide was rampant; factories were abandoned for ideology; distrust of friends and neighbours flourished. Ting-Xing was sent to work on a distant northern prison farm at sixteen, and survived six years of backbreaking labour and severe conditions. She was mentally tortured for weeks until she agreed to sign a false statement accusing friends of anti-state activities. Somehow finding the time to teach herself English, often by listening to the radio, she finally made it to Beijing University in 1974 as the Revolution was on the wane — though the acquisition of knowledge was still frowned upon as a bourgeois desire and study was discouraged. Readers have been stunned and moved by this simply narrated personal account of a 1984-style ideology-gone-mad, where any behaviour deemed to be bourgeois was persecuted with the ferocity and illogic of a witch trial, and where a change in politics could switch right to wrong in a moment. The story of both a nation and an individual, the book spans a heady 35 years of Ye’s life in China, until her eventual defection to Canada in 1987 — and the wonderful beginning of a romance with Canadian author William Bell. The book was published in 1997. The 1990s saw the publication of several memoirs by Chinese now settled in North America. Ye’s was not the first, yet earned a distinguished place as one of the most powerful, and the only such memoir written from Canada. It is the inspiring story of a woman refusing to “drift with the stream” and fighting her way through an impossible, unjust system. This compelling, heart-wrenching story has been published in Germany, Japan, the US, UK and Australia, where it went straight to #1 on the bestseller list and has been reprinted several times; Dutch, French and Turkish editions will appear in 2001.
Download or read book Numerous Uses of Bitter Leaf written by Ikechukwu Oduah and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bitter Leaf plant is an indigenous African species, it grows in most parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Some of the principal chemical constituents found in the Bitter Leaf herb are a class of compounds called steroid glycosides- type vernonioside B1 - these chemical substances possess a potent anti-parasitic, anti-tumor, and bactericidal effects. At the same time, the Bitter Leaf also helps bring relief from related problems in the body such as diarrhoea and general physical malaise.Remedies made from the Bitter Leaf are used in treating over fifteen common ailments in sub-Saharan Africa, these include common problems such as fever and different kinds of intestinal complaints, as well as parasite induced diseases like malaria and other vector borne diseases.It has proven high potency in curing Diabetes, memory loss etc.
Download or read book Good Morning America written by Mark Power and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American landscape as viewed through the lens of an outsider.
Download or read book Bitterleaf written by Lisa Gregory and published by Jove Publications. This book was released on 1983-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meredith Whitney falls in love with Jeremy Devlin, the proud indentured servant her stepfather has brought to the family plantation, Bitterleaf
Download or read book Bay Leaf Bitter Leaf and Water Leaf Herbal and Medicinal Secret written by Philip Leon and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health benefit and secret healings of Bay leaf, Bitter leaf and Water leaf. Vegetable herbs, Bay leaves, Bitter leaf, water leaf, growing requirements, uses, and food value of various leafy green vegetables and vegetable flowers. Get to know the health benefits, medicinal and medical benefits of green vegetables. get to know the secret behind using this green vegetables for : healing stroke lowering blood pressure combating diseases boosting mental health
Download or read book Herbal Medicine Phytochemistry written by Sylvester Chibueze Izah and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 2211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kiyoshi s Walk written by Mark Karlins and published by Lee & Low Books. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kiyoshi asks his grandfather, the wise poet Eto, where poems come from, and Eto takes him on a walk through the city to seek an answer.
Download or read book Healthier Alternatives written by May Jideofo and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Healthier Alternatives: Low Saturated Fat African Cooking" is a remarkable achievement that introduces readers to a better, healthier way of cooking the world's truest soul foodAfrican food. May is very active in the battle to help Africans make the necessary changes in African food preparation that will help them live long healthier lifestyles. This cook book will help Africans eliminate the unhealthy ingredients like palm oil which has now been discovered to pose health risk to everyone."
Download or read book Medicinal Foods written by UCHECHUKWU ANASTASIA UTOH-NEDOSA and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-03-14 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on medicinal foods is an essential reading material in this era when more people are including plant materials, which they call "veggies," in their diets to obtain micronutrients. Knowledge of medicinal foods will enable a person to eat food to promote good health and prevent disease. Knowledge of medicinal foods will also help a person to use food for the adjunct dietary management of some health disorders.
Download or read book Bitter written by Jennifer McLagan and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The champion of uncelebrated foods including fat, offal, and bones, Jennifer McLagan turns her attention to a fascinating, underappreciated, and trending topic: bitterness. What do coffee, IPA beer, dark chocolate, and radicchio all have in common? They’re bitter. While some culinary cultures, such as in Italy and parts of Asia, have an inherent appreciation for bitter flavors (think Campari and Chinese bitter melon), little attention has been given to bitterness in North America: we’re much more likely to reach for salty or sweet. However, with a surge in the popularity of craft beers; dark chocolate; coffee; greens like arugula, dandelion, radicchio, and frisée; high-quality olive oil; and cocktails made with Campari and absinthe—all foods and drinks with elements of bitterness—bitter is finally getting its due. In this deep and fascinating exploration of bitter through science, culture, history, and 100 deliciously idiosyncratic recipes—like Cardoon Beef Tagine, White Asparagus with Blood Orange Sauce, and Campari Granita—award-winning author Jennifer McLagan makes a case for this misunderstood flavor and explains how adding a touch of bitter to a dish creates an exciting taste dimension that will bring your cooking to life.
Download or read book Nature Power written by Anselm Adodo and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nature Power was first published twelve years ago, the practice of herbal medicine in Nigeria and in most parts of Africa was identified with witchcraft, sorcery, ritualism, and all sorts of fetish practices. Because herbal medicine was associated with paganism, African Christians secretly patronize traditional healers, and the educated elite and religious figures did not want to be associated in any way with traditional African medicine. Nature Power, like a lonely voice in a wilderness, was written to correct the misconception that African herbal medicine is synonymous with paganism, ritualism, and fetishism. Since its publication, Nature Power has been reprinted more than eight times. It has contributed immensely in changing the attitudes of both the government and Christians toward the practice of herbal medicine. Nature Power has also helped show that health is more than an absence of disease. Health is wholeness of mind, soul, and body. Much of the information in this book is age-old secrets, which herbalists keep close to their chests. I have made them available here so that humanity may profit from them.
Download or read book Herbal Remedies written by Phaya Brands and published by Phaya Brands. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Right from creation, mankind was created in perfect health condition without any blemish, but in the course of time due to many factors man began to lose that perfect state to various diseases and sickness, but along with creation also was created fruits, vegetables and different herbs and roots that can be used for the remedy or cure of such sickness and disease condition in man. But without the right knowledge and application of such knowledge on what type of fruit, vegetables and natural materials to use and the correct application of such, man will continue to wallow in pains and uncomfortable living with many untimely death resulting due to pure ignorance. This publication therefore is a contribution to make our life stress-free from the above scenario. It is with pure conviction and time tested assurance that you are advised to apply these remedies and information to any relevant case as may be required. Vegetables are nature’s vitamins which our body systems required on a regular basis to continue functioning at it maximum capacity. Change of diet creates a corresponding action in our body. Our life style we live like food we eat and the type of liquid we consumed into our body will result in how our body functions. Vegetables and fruits have abundance of enzyme. Foods we eat are of two categories. We have alkaline-based foods and acidic based food. When we eat raw fruits and raw vegetables, they leave an alkaline normal range, while when we eat animal products; we are left with an acid residue which is dangerous to the body. The body is designed to run well in an alkaline free environment, for a healthy life. Built right inside each of us is a self-healing mechanism called the Immune System, the major problem is that we violate the natural laws and don't consume the right foods designed for a healthy life.
Download or read book Burma Superstar written by Desmond Tan and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beloved San Francisco restaurant, a mouthwatering collection of recipes, including Fiery Tofu, Garlic Noodles, the legendary Tea Leaf Salad, and many more. Never before have the vivid flavors of Burmese cooking been so achievable for home cooks. Known for its bustling tables, the sizzle of onions and garlic in the wok, and a wait time so legendary that customers start to line up before the doors even open—Burma Superstar is a Bay Area institution, offering diners a taste of the addictively savory and spiced food of Myanmar. With influences from neighboring India and China, as well as Thailand and Laos, Burmese food is a unique blend of flavors, and Burma Superstar includes such stand-out dishes as the iconic Tea Leaf Salad, Chili Lamb, Pork and Pumpkin Stew, Platha (a buttery layered flatbread), Spicy Eggplant, and Mohinga, a fish noodle soup that is arguably Myanmar’s national dish. Each of these nearly 90 recipes has been streamlined for home cooks of all experience levels, and without the need for special equipment or long lists of hard-to-find ingredients. Stunningly photographed, and peppered with essays about the country and its food, this inside look at the world of Burma Superstar presents a seductive glimpse of this jewel of Southeast Asia.
Download or read book The Changing Faces of Glutathione a Cellular Protagonist written by Alfonso Pompella and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glutathione (GSH) has been described for a long time just as a defensive reagent against the action of toxic xenobiotics (drugs, pollutants, carcinogens), both directly and as a cofactor for GSH transferases. As a prototype antioxidant, it has been involved in cell protection from the noxious effect of excess oxidant stress, both directly and as a cofactor of glutathione peroxidases. In addition, it has long been known that GSH is capable of forming disulfide bonds with cysteine residues of proteins, and the relevance of this mechanism ("S-glutathionylation") in regulation of protein function has been well documented in a number of research fields. Rather paradoxically, it has also been highlighted that GSH—and notably its catabolites, as originated by metabolism by gamma-glutamyltransferase—can promote oxidative processes, by participating in metal ion-mediated reactions eventually leading to formation of reactive oxygen species and free radicals. Also, a fundamental role of GSH has been recognized in the storage and transport of nitric oxide (NO), in the form of S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO). The significance of GSH as a major factor in regulation of cell life, proliferation, and death, can be regarded as the integrated result of all these roles, as well as of more which are emerging in diverse fields of biology and pathophysiology. Against this background, modulation of GSH levels and GSH-related enzyme activities represents a fertile field for experimental pharmacology in numerous and diverse perspectives of animal, plant and microbiologic research. This research topic includes 14 articles, i.e. 4 Opinion Articles, 6 Reviews, and 4 Original Research Articles. The contributions by several distinguished research groups, each from his own standpoint of competence and expertise, provide a comprehensive and updated view over the diverse roles, the changing faces of GSH and GSH-related enzymes in cell’s health, disease and death.
Download or read book Food as Medicine written by Maurice M. Iwu and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive book documents African plants used for functional and medicinal foods. It contains more than 60 detailed monographs of African foods, describing foods with various characteristics such as prebiotic, probiotic, satiety, immune modulation, stress-reduction, sports performance, mental acuity, sleep-supporting, metabolic syndrome, antioxidant, and unsaturated fats. Plant description, botanical names and synonyms, plant part used, habitat and distribution, folk use, nutritional content, and chemistry are all fully detailed. The book highlights indigenous African food processing technologies up to the modern era.
Download or read book Vegetables written by G. J. H. Grubben and published by PROTA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
