Chinese Nutritional Therapy Course

This course is aimed at beginners to Nutrition along with Nutritionists and any body looking to work within the field of Nutrition. This fully certified course will enable you to broaden your understanding of food and nutrition by going deeply into the concept of Food Energetics, adding a further layer of sophistication and knowledge to your consultations. And for all practitioners of any discipline, this course will open the doors to a new way of looking at diet as a powerful form of healing in its own right.

The scope of Chinese Medicine’s effectiveness reaches far beyond the treatment of disease. It encompasses the nurturing of true health & wellness of all aspects of an individual — the physical, mental/emotional and spiritual components that comprise each human being. Nutrition and exercise will be adapted to your diagnosis and the needs of your lifestyle. No one is the same!

Nutrition lies at the heart of Chinese Medicine. During the Tang dynasty (618-907), Sun Simiao wrote the famous book ‘Food Therapy’ in Prescriptions worth a Thousand Gold, in which he stated: “Before a doctor treats a disease, he must be sure of the cause and pathogenesis of the disease, then treat the patient with diet before using any medications.”

That diet is at the heart of well-being, and inappropriate diet a factor in many disease is well recognized by Western Medicine as well, and has been all over the media.

So what is different in Chinese Medicine?

Chinese doctors have been analyzing the effect of food on the body for over 2500 years. Every food and herb is classified according to their nature, hot, cold, warm, cool or neutral, as well as according to their taste. Depending on their nature, foods will be beneficial to certain organs, and certain conditions. This knowledge will allow you to formulate an individualized plan adapted to your clients particular diagnosis.

For instance, cinnamon twig has been part of traditional medicine since the Anitiquity. It is warm, pungent and sweet. It is very useful to stimulate digestion if there is a sensation of cold in the stomach, with loss of appetite, tiredness, soft stools. However, one would need to be careful if there are signs of heat, for instance hot flushes experienced mostly at night.

It is also very important to eat according to one’s own environment and the season. With the globalization of the food industry, we are losing touch with this crucial principle. For instance tomatoes are available all year round in supermarkets. They are cold in nature, perfect eaten raw to cool down on a hot summer’s day. However, they might not be appropriate on a cold snowy UK winter evening. This course will teach you everything that you need to know to get started helping others and yourself with Chinese Nutritional Therapy.

Course Syllabus:

Introduction to Chinese medical theory

Understanding Qi

Causes of disease

Diagnosis by observation

Qi, blood and body fluids

tongue and pulse diagnosis

Environmental factors

Chinese diagnosis in practice

The spirit (psychological and emotional conditions)

Practical diagnosis sessions

Diagnosing complex cases

Basics of Chinese nutrition – understanding food energetics

Yin/yang and 5 elements of food

Types of food and their effect

The Chinese approach to food intolerance and digestive disorders

Dietary adjustments & food temperatures

Diets for health and illness

Eating for the seasons

Hot and cold conditions

Treating dryness, dampness and phlegm

Treating deficiency and stagnation

Using 'superfoods' and Chinese herbs in cooking

Making a therapeutic meal

Treatment of specific and complex conditions with diet

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Certificate of completion

Digital certificate - Included