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About the Author
LALITHA THOMAS is an educator and consultant who began her practice with herbs as a child,
caring for sick and wounded animals. For over thirty years she studied and tested her
applications with clients and friends, and trained hundreds of students in her herbal magic.
Introduction
How can that Lalitha be so bold, you may ask, to pick ten out of the whole incredible variety
of foods in the world and say that they are the 10 Essential ones!?
And I will answer, that as far as being bold, it is just one of my more useful eccentricities. As
far as being accurate about what is essential, I have learned to recognize these things through
more than twenty years of experience and formal apprenticeship to other self-taught Masters in
the healing arts, through extensive study in the use of foods and herbs as healing substances
(see my first book, 10 Essential Herbs, Prescott, AZ: Hohm Press, 1992), by lecturing and
teaching in this important field, and through consciously applying (since child-hood) the highly
useful gifts of intuition and flexibility in the use of the healing energies I was born with.
I often just know things, which has always been quite convenient for me and for those who like
to try out my ideas. I have no academic credentials (although I could get good-looking diplomas
in the mail, it I was really that interested, and so could you); but Im making this clear right
now, I would never have learned a lot of what is contained in this book if I had depended on
traditional, or even not-so-traditional, academia to inform me (and Id bet the same is true for
you too).
10 Essential Foods is for those who want positive action on th
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