Tao of Healthy Eating: Chinese Dietary Therapy

Covers Chinese dietary therapy and lifestyle for patient health, including pattern-based diet plans, food issues, obesity, allergies, lactation, and preparing simple medicinal teas, wines, and porridges.

Bob Flaws
Bob Flaws

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

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

Outline

  • 0 hrs - 1.5 hrs

    TCM 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 hrs

    Categories 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 hrs

    Pattern vs. disease, 10 types of pattern discrimination, food as medicinals, effects of the five flavors

  • 4.5 hrs - 6 hrs

    Survey of relevant theories in TCM dietary therapy, the six depressions, Li Dong-yuan's theory of Yin Fire

  • 6 hrs - 7 hrs

    Individual foods & eating habits

  • 7 hrs - 8 hrs

    Foods as seen through the TCM lens

  • 8 hrs - 9 hrs

    Treating conditions with congees, Chinese medicinal teas based on pattern ID, medicinal wines

  • 9 hrs - 10.5 hrs

    Cooking what we eat in the West in terms of TCM

  • 10.5 hrs - 11 hrs

    Gu syndrome, Q & A

  • 11 hrs - 14 hrs

    Reading - Overeating Sugar & Sweets, Pediatric Infection/Spleen Vacuity Syndrome

Teacher

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Full Biography

Bob Flaws

Bob Flaws began his study of Chinese medicine in 1977, and has since become one of the best-known English-language teachers, authors and practitioners of Chinese medicine. A champion of both the paradigm and process of Chinese medicine, Bob has written, translated and/or published over 80 books and hundreds of articles on the subject.

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  • Note

    The course contents are available in an online format only; you will not receive a DVD or physical copy – they are only available through the internet in your online account.

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$462
More Details

  • CPDs:

    Approved By: AACMA (14), ANTA (14), ATMS (14), Acupuncture NZ (14), NCCAOM (14), Standard Certificate (14)

  • Language: English

  • Course Type: Audio and Reading

  • Course Length: 14 h

  • Course Notes: Notes are provided with this course.

  • Access Period: Lifetime

$462