This comprehensive guide to macrobiotic medicine contains much of George Ohsawa's writing on health and the curing of many diseases easily and simply with natural foods.

George Ohsawa's account of his 1955 visit to Dr. Albert Schweitzer's hospital in Africa and how he discovers a cure for deadly tropical ulcers followed by his teachings on the physical and mental aspects of disease, the traditional approach to healing versus the symptomatic medicine of today, and the priniciple of the unifying principle of yin and yang--the foundation of macrobiotics.

The book contains George Ohsawa's contrasting of Western science's views on Life and Death with that of Far Eastern philosophy. He then explains why macrobiotic practice can lead to a happy, grateful life in this world without having to wait for the next life.

A short, practical, and unique guide to learning basic Japanese language.

The unique (unifying) principle, called yin/yang by the ancient Chinese, is the missing key that joins religion and science, man and God, philosophy and daily life. This is George Ohsawa's first book originally published in French in 1931.

The most comprehensive look at Ohsawa's philosophy ever presented, including the methods of simple, natural eating and drinking and the concepts of the Order of the Universe and yin and yang, plus photographs, anecdotes, a chronology of Ohsawa's life, and a bibliography of his writings. This book is a must read for anyone interested in macrobiotic philosophy.

George Ohsawa's translation and interpretation of Kervran's theory of biological transmutation, in which elements can transmute to other elements in the biological body.

Zen Macrobiotics is the "flame" of macrobiotics. It was written in 1960 by Ohsawa to introduce macrobiotics to the United States. This unabridged edition, combines the original manuscript corrected by Ohsawa in 1960 with the 1965 Oles edition, including a restoration of over 240 recipes left out of other editions, and a complete index.