Food has always been powerful medicine. In a culture that often looks to big pharma to cure its ills, it can be a departure to think of what we eat every day as a resource to repair and restore health. But the truth is that using food as medicine is as old as time. Traditional healing practices have known this for millennia, and, thankfully, we’re now starting to realize it as well. Understanding the healing properties of foods can be overwhelming. There’s a constant barrage of information about the next miracle diet, discoveries about foods’ health benefits, or how someone healed themselves from an “incurable” disease with their diet. Because of the sheer volume of information, it’s hard to know where to begin. I always go back to Eastern medicine—a tradition that’s been using food as medicine for thousands of years. And because of its long history, it has had …