AyurvedicHealing Cuisine(阿育吠陀療癒美⾷)— 200 Vegetarian Recipes for Health, Balance, and Longevity (200 種助您健康、平衡、長壽的素食食譜)—INTRODUCTION(序言)

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Health is the state of harmonious chemical balance in a living organism. Our health depends on the chemical environments inside and outside our bodies. Food plays an important role in creating the internal chemical environment. Cooking food makes it palatable, digestible, and assimilable.

健康是⽣物體內化學平衡和諧的狀態。我們的健康取決於我們⾝體內外的化學環境。⾷物在創造內部化學環境方面發揮著重要作用。烹飪使⾷物變得可口、易消化、易吸收。

When cooked properly, food is appetizing, flavorful, and aromatic. Cooking is a way of offering love. Food that is cooked with love, guided by knowledge of the ingredients being cooked, and served in an inspiring atmosphere becomes healing. Food is something very personal and it should never be eaten for taste alone; its purpose is to provide nutrients and satisfaction to the body, without introducing toxins. This satisfaction comes from a state of electrochemical balance inside the organism, which is created by the postdigestive action of the food. A major part of chemical imbalance is created by living with incorrect habits and in a bad environment. This situation can be counteracted by eating good, healthful food.

如果烹調得當，⾷物會變得美味可口、香氣撲鼻。烹飪是表達愛的一種方式。用愛心烹 調的⾷物，以對⾷材的了解為指導，在⿎舞人心的氛圍中供應，可以起到治癒的作用。⾷ 物是⾮常私人的東西，不應該僅僅為了味道而吃；其⽬的是為⾝體提供營養和滿⾜感，而不會引入毒素。這種滿⾜感源⾃於有機體內部的電化學平衡狀態，而這種平衡是由⾷物的消化後作用產⽣的。化學失衡的主要原因是由於不良的⽣活習慣和惡劣的環境所造成的。

透過吃好的、健康的⾷物可以抵消這種情況。

Vegetarian food cooked with healing herbs and energizing spices can

eliminate many of the toxins that have entered the body through polluted water

and air, or even noise. Toxins also enter us through radiation or chemicals that

are supposed to prevent our food from decay and that are used freely on

vegetables, fruits, and all types of edible foodstuffs. Spices—concentrated

“chemicals” that are converted into cleansing and vitalizing frequencies by our

electrochemical system—save our body from chemical imbalance.

用藥草和提神香料烹調的素⾷可以消除透過污染的水和空氣甚至噪音進入人體的許多毒素。毒素也會透過輻射或化學物質進入人體，而這些物質本來是為了防止⾷物腐爛而⼤量用在蔬菜、水果和各種可⾷用的⾷物上。香料—濃縮的“化學物質”，透過我們的電化學系統轉化為清潔和活化頻率—使我們的⾝體免於化學失衡。

Cooking therefore is an art and a science at the same time. It is an art when the

cook is inspired and completely absorbed in inventing a new dish, a new taste.

When the cook, like a medicine man, uses herbs and spices to enhance the

nutritional value, cooking is a science. But when the art and science of cooking

combine in a cook, cooking becomes alchemy and food becomes Tantra. The

love of the cook rejuvenates each and every cell of the body and food becomes

an elixir, a tonic, a vitalizer, and a medicine.

因此，烹飪既是一⾨藝術，也是一⾨科學。當廚師受到啟發並全神貫注於發明一種新菜餚、一種新口味時，這是一種藝術。

當廚師像巫醫一樣使用草藥和香料來提⾼營養價值時，烹飪就是一⾨科學。但當烹飪的藝術和科學在廚師⾝上結合在一起時，烹飪變成了煉⾦術，⾷物變成了譚崔。廚師的愛使⾝體的每個細胞恢復活⼒，⾷物成為一種靈丹妙藥、一種補藥、一種活⼒劑和一種藥物。

A good cook knows that taste is a key to the chemical nature of food and that

through taste he or she can manipulate the chemical environment of the body.

優秀的廚師知道味道是⾷物化學性質的關鍵，透過味道，他或她可以控制⾝體的化學環境

There are six tastes and six kinds of taste buds; good food satisfies all the taste

buds. A cook who knows the Ayurvedic principles of taste—for example, that

the sweet taste is a combination of water and earth elements and it subdues Vata

(Wind) and Pitta (Bile) and stimulates Kapha (Mucus)—can play with these

有六種味道，六種味蕾；美⾷能滿⾜所有味蕾。了解阿育吠陀味覺原理的廚師—例如，甜味是水和⼟元素的結合，它可以抑制Vata （⾵）和Pitta （膽汁）並刺激Kapha （粘液)—可以利用這些味道，抑制加劇的體液，重新建立化學平衡。

Cooking is a way of caring that gives complete satisfaction. Indian cooks

derive their knowledge of herbs and spices, vegetables, legumes, and so forth

from Ayurveda, which helps them maintain physical, mental, social, and spiritual harmony.

烹飪是一種能帶給人完全滿⾜感的關懷方式 。印度廚師從阿育吠陀中獲得有關草藥、香料、蔬菜、豆類等的知識，這有助於他們保持⾝體、心理、社會和精神的和諧。

A good cook should remember that alkaline body chemistry is an important

key to good health and a long life. All foods should create such a balance that

the body chemistry is predominantly alkaline. With age, body chemistry

becomes more acidic and the wear-and-tear mechanism becomes more powerful.

If older people introduce alkaline foods or foods whose postdigestive action is

alkaline into their diets, they can remain healthy and live long lives.

好的廚師應該記住，鹼性⾝體化學是健康長壽的重要關鍵。所有⾷物都應保持這樣的平衡，使⾝體的化學成分主要呈鹼性。隨著年齡的增長，⾝體化學成分變得更加酸性，磨損機制變得更強⼤。

如果⽼年人的飲⾷中引入鹼性⾷物或消化後作用呈鹼性的⾷物，他們就能保持健康並長壽。

The philosophy, cooking methods, and recipes in this book are based on

Ayurveda, the most ancient system of Indian medicine. Ayurveda studies the

physical and psychic behavior of people and prescribes ways for them to

synchronize with their environment so as to live happy, healthy, and inspired

lives.

本書中的哲學、烹飪方法和⾷譜都是以印度最古⽼的醫學體係阿育吠陀為基礎。阿育吠陀研究人們的⽣理和心理行為，並指導人們如何與周圍環境保持同步，從而過著幸福、健康、充滿靈感的⽣活。

Much emphasis is given to diet, following the cycles of the seasons, getting up

before dawn, massage, and other useful practices for enriching life.

人們⾮常重視飲⾷、遵循季節循環、起床黎明前，按摩，以及其他豐富⽣活的有益做法。

Information dealing with diseases, their diagnosis, and cures also exists within

Ayurveda. It even encompasses surgery and plastic surgery.

阿育吠陀中也存在有關疾病、其診斷和治療的資訊。它甚至包括外科手術和整形手術。

The term “Ayurveda” comes from ayu meaning “life” and veda meaning “knowledge.” The Greek system of medicine, which is parallel to Ayurveda, is called “Unani- Tib”—Unani meaning “Greek” and tib, “medicine.” These two medical systems understand and define the body in similar ways, and each incorporates the principles of doshas (humors), pulse, and diet. While it is hard to say whether they both stem from the same source, in India both Ayurveda and Unani-Tib are practiced.

阿育吠陀”一詞源⾃ayu ，意為“⽣命”， veda ，意為“知識”。與阿育吠陀平行的希臘醫學體系被稱為“Unani‑ Tib”—Unani 的意思是“希臘語”， tib 的意思是“醫學”。這兩種醫學體系對⾝體的理解和定義方式相似，而且都融合了體液、脈搏和飲⾷的原理。雖然很難說它們是否源⾃同一源頭，但在印度，阿育吠陀和**尤納尼醫學都被廣泛實踐。

**尤納尼醫學體係是印度乃至全世界最古老的醫學體系之一。這個體系的基本原理依賴希波克拉底和蓋倫所提出的概念。這個體系早期被稱為“蓋倫醫學”，後來被稱為尤納尼（Unani 在阿拉伯語中是“希臘語”的意思，Tibb 是“醫學”的意思）

尤納尼（Unani）這個名字源自於希臘語 Ionian，意為“醫學”，是生命的象徵。 Tibb 指的是對人體健康和疾病（健康衰退）狀態的知識。尤納尼醫學 (Unani Tibb) 致力於尋找人們過上健康生活的最佳方式。因此，尤納尼醫學是一套古老的、經過時間考驗的醫學體系，可以追溯到 5000 年前的希臘。它指的是希臘-阿拉伯醫學的一種傳統，該醫學以希臘醫生布克拉特 (希波克拉底；公元前 460-377 年) 和羅馬醫生賈利諾斯 (蓋倫) 的教義為基礎，並由拉齊 (拉澤斯)、阿維森納 (伊本西納)、扎赫拉維和伊納菲斯等阿拉伯和波斯醫生發展成為一套本的醫療體系