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Need to Know
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Who is this course for?Acupuncturists · TCM Practitioners · Anyone with a minimal foundation in TCM -
Course length (start & watch when you want)5.5 hours of video content -
Course credits5.5 CEUs / PDAs*Please note that many of the associations listed under ‘CEUs/PDAs’ do not formally pre-approve online courses for credits, and thus require the student to track their own online course hours to submit for approval for their annual CEU/PDA requirements.
5.5 credits with: NCCAOM (AOM-OM), NZASA (Category 2), meets standards for CTCMA, CAAA, CTCMPAO, AACMA
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ExtrasLifetime access · Certificate of completion
Meet your course instructor
Sandra Robertson | RTCMP
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.
Course description
If you’re new to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), before starting this course, you may want first to take the course Chinese Dietary Therapy. This introductory course will provide you with the foundations of Chinese Medicine and will improve your understanding of this Chinese Medicine for Children course.
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:
- Comprehend the difference between TCM Dietary advice for babies and children versus adults.
- Understand the function of the Spleen and Stomach In babies and children.
- Understanding the Importance of early childhood diet in TCM and in relation to modern findings and research for long-term health
- Utilize TCM dietary therapy, instead of or along with allopathic medicine (i.e., fever reducers and antibiotics) for common childhood ailments is optimal and beneficial.
- Read facial diagnosis signs to look for in children.
- Differentiate common childhood ailments and suggest TCM dietary therapy accordingly.
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