Acupuncture Physician, Writer, Educator
Dr. Teresa Renfroe DACM, AP
What if the most powerful thing you could do for your health was already in your kitchen? Healing the Terrain brings 2,000 years of Chinese food wisdom to modern cancer care — practical, nourishing guidance for patients, caregivers, and the practitioners who walk beside them.
About the book
Food as medicine
Food is not the enemy. Food is information.For more than 2,000 years, Chinese medicine has understood that every meal shapes the body's internal terrain. Healing the Terrain bridges ancient dietary wisdom with modern integrative oncology, offering practical guidance for patients, caregivers, and practitioners.Whether you're navigating treatment, supporting a loved one, or looking to deepen your clinical understanding, this book provides a compassionate roadmap toward nourishment and resilience.
About the Author
Meet Dr. T
Dr. Teresa Renfroe, DACM, AP, is an acupuncture physician, educator, and author specializing in integrative oncology and Chinese medicine. She currently serves as an administrator and faculty at Dragon Rises College of Oriental Medicine, where she teaches courses in integrative oncology. She holds a Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine degree from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine.Dr. Renfroe's own journey through cancer, and the food-as-medicine principles that carried her through it, form the heart of her book, Healing the Terrain: Food as Medicine — A Chinese Medicine Approach to Cancer Care, published under her imprint, Paper Owl Publishing.Dr. Renfroe lives in Sarasota, Florida, with her wife and family. In her downtime, she enjoys writing, kayaking, playing music, and finding solitude at the beach and in the woods.
