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Nourish babies' and children's digestion through diet and differentiate common childhood ailments. Learn how to apply TCM dietary principles confidently in the kitchen.
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Sandra Robertson is a Practitioner of Chinese Medicine and has been in practice in Victoria, B.C., since 2008. She has a five-year Doctor of Chinese Medicine diploma. She is the author of Treating Children with Chinese Dietary Therapy, released in 2021 by Singing Dragon. She has extensively studied and applied Chinese dietary therapy in her life as a mother and stepmother to three children and her clinical practice with clients. Sandra trained with Lillian Pearl Bridges, the world’s leading authority on Face Reading and Facial diagnosis and completed the Master Face Reading Certification Program. She has also taken continuing education training with Julian Scott, the world’s most eminent Pediatric Acupuncture specialist. Sandra enjoys spending time with her family and friends, reading, cooking, farmers' markets, writing, hiking, yoga, qi gong, and aiming to live her life in the most Yang Sheng way possible.
This course covers the immature digestive systems of children from a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) perspective and teaches the best ways to protect and nourish their Middle Burner (Spleen and Stomach). It also provides modern findings and research that reinforce many TCM principles regarding nutrition for babies’ and children’s health.
Common childhood ailments are discussed and broken down into TCM patterns with supporting dietary advice for parents or caregivers.
This course includes 28 delicious and child-approved recipes, plus 8 full cooking demonstrations so you can apply the teaching from this course immediately in the kitchen.
To pull all of the information together, your instructor Sandra presents 4 case studies from her clinical practice so that you can see the power of Chinese Dietary Therapy for Children.
Upon completion of this course, students will have the ability to:
Section I | Welcome
1. Welcome to your new course
2. Course outline
3. Introduction
Section II | The immature Spleen and Stomach in babies and Children
4. The immature Spleen
5. Allopathic medicines
6. How to nourish the Spleen in children
7. Cooking Demo: Puffed amaranth bar
8. Pernicious influences for the Spleen
9. In utero and the mother’s health
10. Facial diagnosis in children
Section III | Common childhood ailments
11. Accumulation disorder
12. Colic
13. Stomachache
14. Low appetite
15. Cooking Demo: Homemade Nutritious Nutella
16. Nausea and vomiting
17. Ear infections
18. Loose stools
19. Cooking Demo: Chocolate Covered Puffed Lotus Seeds
20. Constipation
21. Cooking Demo: Millet Cakes & Sunflower Seed Dip
22. Common cold and influenza
23. Chronic cough
24. Eczema
25. Cooking Demo: Celery root salad
26. Allergic Rhinitis (hay fever)
27. Chronic asthma
28. Cooking Demo: Pear smoothie with homemade almond milk
29. Nocturnal Enuresis (bedwetting)
30. Cooking Demo: Steamed egg soup
31. Cooking Demo: Mung bean brownies
Section IV | Case studies
32. Four case studies
33. Conclusion and course review
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“This course was outstanding! Sandra teaches with great confidence and clarity. She offers many useful suggestions for the varying conditions along with many tasty recipes. I have put many of these foods into use to treat my own children as well as patients. I highly recommend it!”
Marika Hall - Victoria, BC, Canada
“Overall, very good! Beautifully put together and very informative. Clear and concise as well. I thoroughly enjoyed it and look forward to implementing.”
Ebony - Edmonton, AB, Canada
Dr. Julian Scott, PhD, Cert Ac - Bath, UK
“She covers and explains all the important areas of Chinese nutrition, including foods for common childhood conditions, that are beneficial during the different seasons, and she gives lots of wonderful recipes. She fills a very big gap in the practice of paediatrics in Chinese Medicine.”
Deirdre Courtney, MTCM - Blackrock, Ireland
“Bursting with useful information and tasty recipes, Sandra skillfully brings together ancient Chinese medicine wisdom and modern research. This will be of great value to parents and to practitioners working with children.”
Rebecca Avern, BA (Hons), Lic, Ac, Dip Paed - Oxford, UK