Food Therapy: Discover Your Unique Body Type

Explore why one-size-fits-all nutrition fails, because the body's internal processing, not just nutrient quality, determines health, revealing how your unique body type influences what works.

Explore how neglecting your internal system leads to flawed nutrition assumptions, challenging calcium myths and redefining nutritious through a theory of foods and drinks.

Explore ancient wisdom of yin shi xue shuo, the theory of foods & drinks, and learn how foods interact with your unique body constituents to tailor a personalized diet.

Compare Newtonian science and ancient philosophy to reveal two worldviews: breaking health into components like protein, carbs, and vitamins, versus a holistic system that notes pungency's effects on the body.

Explore how ancient wisdom links foods and drinks to organ functionalities, balancing Yin and Yang and Qi movement to support body, mind, and body constituents, contrasting with Western nutrition.

Explore body constituents as basic, consistent characteristics guiding food therapy, showing how nine people’s expressions reflect individual differences and contrast with western food-focused nutrition.

Explore the nine body constituents, assess yourself with the provided questionnaires, print a copy, and focus on the few highest scores as you continue the lessons.

Download the 'Your body constituents survey' pdf and the Excel file from resources available at the top left, and use them to explore your body's constituents.

Explore yang deficiency as early aging, detailing symptoms like cold sensitivity, low energy, pale complexion, and digestive issues, and prescribe sun exposure, social activity, and light qigong as remedies.

Explore Yang Abundant (excessive behavior): aggressive and domineering, impatient symptoms, high fever and cardiovascular risks, and remedies like avoiding heated foods, promoting patience, meditation, and calmed exercise.

Yin deficiency (dryness) causes dryness and thirst with hot sensations, dry skin, and insomnia; learn cooling foods, calm mind, more fruits and vegetables, and slow qi exercises like yoga.

Explore qi deficiency type 4 (lethargy) with low energy and possible organ sinking. Improve spleen, stomach, and lung meridians through small meals, qigong, breathing, and socializing, dancing, and slow walking.

Discover type 5 body constituent—wet, damp and hot—its oily skin, acne, fatigue, and agitation, with remedies to avoid dampness and oily and fried foods and practice yoga or qigong.

Phlegm and viscous fluids from a weak spleen link to obesity, where damp stagnation traps toxins and disrupts metabolism; food therapy supports toxin removal and sweating exercises like Zhang Zhuang.

Address qi stagnation to relieve depressed feeling and shortness of breath by boosting pure qi to move blood and fluids, improving mood and energy.

Blood deficiency, or anemia, stems from blood loss, long illness, or spleen-stomach dysfunction, and links to qi-blood; remedies include improving liver function, leg elevation, eye breaks, and Zhang Zhuang.

Understand blood stasis in this body constitution, where qi-blood flow falters, causing dry skin, dull complexion, and bleeding; apply remedies like qi exercises, nature walks, and letting go of stress.

Explore how body constituents stem from parental heritage, DNA, and culture. See how development, pregnancy conditions, diet, lifestyle, long-term medication effects, and stress influence them.

Explore how body constitution emerges from organ interactions under qi, yin and yang, qi-blood, five-element model, and meridians, with foods and stress shaping each pattern.

Examine the five essential life variables—qi, blood, body fluids, essence—and how their balanced interaction sustains health in mind and body.

Explore sub-health as a state between good health and illness, marked by disturbances in psychology or physiology and unconfirmed pain, linked to yin-yang balance and body constituents.

Explore the significance of body constituent through Steve Jobs’ story, highlighting yin-yang balance, aging-related changes, and how physiological scores prompt balancing while acknowledging emotional factors.

Assess your body constituents and review your score and symptoms. Consult section 6 appendix i pdfs for foods to avoid or focus on, then continue lessons to design your diet.

Explore the theory of foods and drink as per ancient wisdom and build a solid foundation for understanding your food therapy journey.

Explore how the spleen converts digested foods to qi-blood to support growth and mind, and how spleen and stomach form a yin-yang pair grounding the theory of foods and drinks.

Explore heat in the upper abdomen from heart and liver, and cold in the lower abdomen from kidneys. Learn how qi movement balances yin and yang and shapes foods.

Discover how foods carry five qi attributes—cold to hot—and how yin and yang shape the body's internal environment, with examples like green bean soup and mutton soup with ginger.

Explore Yin and Yang attributes of foods, from land animals and sun-exposed plants to sea fish, noting Yang energy, coldness in fish like crabs, and heatiness in prawns.

Learn how earth qi supports life, and that your local earth qi shapes the foods you eat, with regional differences that favor local produce over imports.

Align your meals with season qi by choosing foods produced in each season, such as watermelon in summer and cabbage in winter.

Explore cabbage through the theory of foods and drinks, detailing its neutral qi, sweet taste, and how it facilitates qi in the spleen and stomach meridians, and boosts bone marrow.

Explore how dampening foods affect body fluids and yin energy, causing dampness and internal heat, and identify damp foods such as sugar, oils, dairy, juices, and cheese.

Explore the five flavors: sour, pungent, sweet, bitter, and salty, and how they influence qi movement, with wasabi's pungent properties illustrating their effects on the body's life force.

Discover how sour, bitter, pungent, sweet, and salty flavours activate five organs’ qi. Practice moderation to protect the liver, heart, lungs, spleen, and kidneys in the yellow emperor’s holistic system.

Explore how foods drive four qi movements—up-bearing, floating, down-bearing, and falling—and how flavours relate to organ qi direction in liver, spleen, kidneys, lungs, and heart.

Explore the five colors of foods: green, red, yellow, white, and black, and see how each color supports liver qi, heart qi, spleen qi, lungs qi, and kidneys qi.

Explore how five colors relate to five organs in food therapy. Apply moderation to avoid harming organs and to nourish all organs according to the 5-element model.

Explore qi, flavours, colours, and foods attributes that relate to the five organs, linking yin and yang pairs such as liver and gall bladder, via a reference table.

Learn to classify foods by qi, flavour, color, and meridian qi, focusing on the top four properties and the yin–yang balance, qi movement, and organ functions, with cautions and advantages.

Explore how the theory of foods and drink influences qi movement and organ functionalities to improve well-being, while emotions, personalities, life attitudes, and consciousness also shape health.

Explore how emotions, behaviors, attitudes, and thoughts influence qi movement, including anger raising qi and fear affecting kidney function, with overjoy risking chaotic qi.

Explore how emotions affect organ function in autistic children, linking anger, sadness, and fear to the liver, heart, and lungs, and learn food therapy plus meridian and qi healing.

Adopt a holistic, integrated approach to foods and drinks that nourishes all five major organs. Develop a balanced diet plan that covers all thermal qi, colours, and flavours.

Explore how the theory of foods and drink links 5 thermal qi, 5 flavors, and 5 colors to the principles of foods and Chinese herbs, showing that food is medicine.

Recognize Sun Simiao, king of Chinese medicine, who teaches that dietary therapy should be the first step in treating disease, and ensure daily intake of foods and drinks is correct.

Learn how foods are prioritized by body constitution, with grains as qi energy source for growth, while fruits are supplements and meats or vegetables are good but not a must.

Explore how five types of grains, meats, vegetables, and fruits relate to the body's five key organs, revealing ancient wisdom guiding food therapy for personal constitution.

Explore the types of yang foods rooted in Chinese medicine, highlighting ordinary foods and sea cucumber that strengthen both yang and nourish the yin, especially kidney yin and yang.

Explore yin foods and their moisturizing, lubricating properties within Chinese medicine, and learn how sea cucumber can strengthen yang while nourishing kidney yin and yang.

Explore the concepts of qi and blood and identify foods that support qi and blood, including Chinese medicines that help supplement blood deficiency, using ordinary foods.

Learn how qi deficiency from birth or lifestyle affects health and how ordinary foods in Chinese medicine can supplement qi and true qi to counter fatigue, weakness, and illness risk.

Explore foods and traditional Chinese medicine concepts that facilitate qi movement and support balanced energy.

Explore eight yellow foods for the spleen and stomach and their unique properties. Note mango is yellow but can be damp, so moderation matters.

Explore the properties of foods, including 5 qi, 5 flavours, 5 colours, yang and yin foods, and foods for qi and blood, plus water management; Appendix II provides a pdf.

Develop a diet plan by evaluating body constituents and gradually adjusting foods to avoid and focus on, using 6 appendix I and 7 appendix II for qi, spleen, kidneys balance.

Explore yang deficiency and its link to early aging within the body constitution, and download the related video resource from the left top corner of the screen.

Download the PDA file on (2) body constituent to explore yang abundant and excessive behavior using the resources at the left top corner.

Download the PDL file on (3) body constitution from the resources in the left top corner. Learn about yin deficient (dryness) within this body constitution module.

Download the (4) body constituent pdf from the resources at the left top corner. Explore qi deficient (lethargic) concepts within food therapy and the body constituent.

Download the pdf on body constituents for lesson 5 in food therapy by clicking the resources in the left top corner of the screen.

Download the PDA file on (6) body constituent, exploring phlegm / viscous patterns related to obesity, via the resources in the top-left corner.

download the pdf on (7) body constituent to explore stagnant qi and its depressing feeling, via the resources in the left top corner.

Download the (8) body constituent PDA file from the resources to study blood deficiency (anemia) in food therapy.

Download the PDA file on 9 body constitution to explore blood stasis and qi-blood not flow well, and understand its relevance to your unique constitution.

Explore a re-organized listing of Chinese medicine and foods aligned with the new video course Chinese Medicine and Home Kitchen, detailing properties and functions and improving linkages for easy reference.

Explore daily and common Chinese medicine and foods, detailing their properties and functions, and refer to medicated food recipes in the 'Chinese Medicine & Home Kitchen' course.

Explore how Chinese medicines and foods match properties and functionalities to meet health goals, guided by supplement and removal concepts, with medicated food recipes referenced.

Review the list of Chinese medicine and foods for the five key organs' functionalities, and reference their properties for medicated food recipes in the home kitchen video course.

Celebrate completing this beta food therapy course and explore links to related video courses in the PDF file, while continuing to practice good health in mind, emotion, and body.