Specialist TCM Courses
Shen Family Traditional Dietary Methods
Explore how knowledge of ingredients and their combinations is organized through ingredients traditionally used as both food and medicine, the four natures and five flavors, and constitution identification. Understand the distinction between a dietary course and individualized nutritional medical care.
About This Course
Course Introduction
Shen Family Traditional Dietary Methods, taught by Shen Jianhua, begins with the traditional shared-origin concept of food and medicine. It introduces the four natures and five flavors, constitution identification, and relevant food knowledge. Units cover common ingredients, combination techniques, and course cases. Foundational and advanced material are distinguished so learners can first organize the concepts, then explore the course's scope.
Foundational units introduce constitution and the four natures and five flavors, followed by common ingredients and combinations. Advanced material covers proportions, case discussions, and external applications. Organize notes into concepts, ingredients, and combinations, then ask questions appropriate to your background. Individual dietary and medicinal needs still require separate advice from a qualified professional.
Learn Step by Step
What You Will Learn
Understand foundational concepts such as the shared origins of food and medicine and the four natures and five flavors.
Understand how constitution identification and ingredient knowledge are organized within the course.
Organize your review outline around material analysis, combinations, and case studies.
Distinguish general course knowledge from personal nutritional or medical advice.
Course Structure
Course Outline
The first 10 entries of the course outline are shown below, retaining their original order and numbering.
- 01
Chapter 01: Dietary Foundations — Lesson 01: Adapting Food-Medicine Practice to Person, Place, and Time
- 02
Chapter 01: Dietary Foundations — Lesson 02: Medicinal-Diet Cooking Methods and Food Properties
- 03
Chapter 01 — Dietary Therapy Foundations — Lesson 03: Pattern-Based Approaches to Common Constitutions
- 04
Chapter 01: Dietary Foundations — Lesson 04: Combinations of Common Foods
- 05
Chapter 02: Dietary Practice — Lesson 01: Features of the Nine Constitutions and Dietary Methods
- 06
Chapter 02: Dietary Practice — Lesson 02: Common Food-Medicine Ingredients and Their Uses
- 07
Chapter 03: Pattern Differentiation and Dietary Formulas — Lesson 01: Lung Conditions 01—Common Cold
- 08
Chapter 03: Pattern Differentiation and Dietary Formulas — Lesson 02: Lung Conditions 02—Chronic Bronchitis
- 09
Chapter 03 — Pattern Differentiation and Dietary Formulas — Lesson 03: Lung-System Conditions 03 — Bronchial Asthma
- 10
Chapter 03: Pattern Differentiation and Dietary Formulas — Lesson 04: Heart Conditions 01—Hypertension