Course Overview

Please Note: This is an Audio and Reading course. According to Chinese medicine, diet and lifestyle are the most important part of any treatment plan and are more vital to the long-term health of your patients than anything else you do for them in your clinic. This course will bring focus to some of the diet issues that you can help your patients with. This course covers: (1) The basic theories of Chinese dietary therapy (2) The Chinese medical descriptions of commonly eaten foods (3) Parasites and Chinese medicine (4) Cooked vs. raw food (5) Obesity and Chinese medicine (6) Vegetarianism or not? (7) Food allergies and Chinese medicine (8) Cholesterol and Chinese medicine (9) Diet for lactating women (10) How to develop a Chinese dietary plan based on pattern discrimination (11) How to incorporate Chinese dietary therapy into a Western diet (12) How to prepare simple Chinese medicinal teas, wines, and porridges

Course Objectives

• Participants will learn basic theories of Chinese dietary therapy
• Participants will learn chinese medical descriptions of commonly eaten foods
• Participants will learn about food allergies, obesity, cholesterol, and Chinese medicine
• Participants will learn diets for lactating women
• Participants will learn how to develop Chinese dietary plans based on pattern discrimination
• Participants will learn how to incorporate Chinese dietary therapy into a Western diet
• Participants will learn how to prepare simple Chinese medicinal teas, wines, and porridges

Course Outline

0 hrs - 1.5 hrsTCM as a specific style of Chinese medicine, standards of care, diet & lifestyle in Chinese medicine, TCM concept of digestion, Qi & Wei, cooking as predigestion

1.5 hrs - 3 hrsCategories of dietary therapy, remedial dietary therapy, harmonization of the five flavors, the clear/bland diet, the 4 basic constitutions, proper cooking, eating with the seasons

3 hrs - 4.5 hrsPattern vs. disease, 10 types of pattern discrimination, food as medicinals, effects of the five flavors

4.5 hrs - 6 hrsSurvey of relevant theories in TCM dietary therapy, the six depressions, Li Dong-yuans theory of Yin Fire

6 hrs - 7 hrsIndividual foods & eating habits

7 hrs - 8 hrsFoods as seen through the TCM lens

8 hrs - 9 hrsTreating conditions with congees, Chinese medicinal teas based on pattern ID, medicinal wines

9 hrs - 10.5 hrsCooking what we eat in the West in terms of TCM

10.5 hrs - 11 hrsGu syndrome, Q & A

11 hrs - 14 hrsReading - Overeating Sugar & Sweets, Pediatric Infection/Spleen Vacuity Syndrome