Chinese Medicine and Home Kitchen

Apply the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic holistic theory to understand and balance mental, emotional, psychological, relationship, and health challenges today.

Explore the Huangdi Neijing, the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic, and its preventive-care approach that links nature, mind, and body through lifestyle, diet, and self-regulation, integrating with western medicine.

Explore the Huangdi Neijing, an integrated system that links climate, diet, daily habits, psychology, and emotions to health, prevention, and treatment in modern life.

Explore how six essential theories of ancient wisdom apply to daily life and today's challenges, as this preview shows how the course complements well-being through practical application.

Meet Andrew Wong, your learning instructor, with decades in engineering and coaching, applying NLP, psychology, Ennegram, system thinking, and EFT within a Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic framework for total well-being.

Identify the nine body constituents in Chinese medicine and how they differ from Western medicine, using a questionnaire to tailor food therapy for each unique pattern.

Explore Chinese medicine and food therapy for Type (1) Yang Deficient and early aging symptoms. Understand Yin and Yang, Qi, and Qi Blood in body constituents and warmth.

Explore type (2) yang abundant body constitution and how excess yang creates heat, hot temper, and high blood pressure. Learn foods and Chinese medicines to balance yang with yin.

Explore how Chinese medicine and food therapy address type 3 yin deficiency (dryness), balancing yin and yang with nourishing foods and herbs to relieve dryness, thirst, and internal heat.

Explore how food therapy and chinese medicine address type 4 qi deficient body constituents, boosting qi and easing lethargy with foods like millet, peanut, rice, and pumpkin.

Learn Chinese medicine and food therapy for type (5) wet, damp & hot (sticky) body constituents, focusing on the triple warmer framework and balancing top, middle, and bottom dampness.

Explore Chinese medicine and food therapy for Type (6) phlegm / viscous obesity, detailing body fluids, symptoms, and balanced foods and herbs to support health.

Explore Chinese medicine and food therapy for type 7 stagnant qi (depressing feeling), detailing how emotional stress disrupts qi flow and liver qi, and how dietary choices balance this condition.

Explore Chinese medicine and food therapy for type (8) blood deficiency (anaemia), linking symptoms to dietary and herbal choices and examples of foods and Chinese medicines.

Explore type (9) blood stasis and qi-blood flow issues in body constituents. Learn foods and Chinese medicines, with examples like barley, white beans, ginger, and garlic.

Learn how Chinese medicine and food therapy support organs functionalities—liver, heart, spleen, kidneys, and lungs—protecting health, addressing sub-health issues, and aligning emotions with organ health.

Explore how the heart meridian influences consciousness and emotions, embodying yin yang balance to achieve inner peace, and learn Chinese foods and herbs that support heart functionalities.

Explore how liver meridian balance influences creativity, emotions, and overall health through yin-yang balance, five-element theory, and foods that nourish liver functionalities.

Explore how the kidney meridian governs will power, consciousness, and fear, and how yin–yang balance influences kidney and liver function, with black foods and herbs like Túsīzi supporting harmony.

Explore how the spleen meridian provides energy by linking thinking, emotion, and digestion within yin-yang balance, and consider yellow foods like maize, potato, and qian shi.

Explore how the lung meridian distributes qi to every cell, linking lung function to subconscious emotions and overall balance through yin-yang and 5-element theory, with lung-balancing foods.

Balance supplements with detoxification to prevent overload; explore deficiencies in blood, yin, yang, and qi and how Chinese medicine and foods address them, plus detox and waste removal.

Learn to ease urination for discharge with foods like winter melon, papaya, red beans, mung beans, and herbs fuling, baizhu, huangqi, focusing on body fluid management and toxin removal.

Understand heat and yin yang imbalance and discover cooling foods and herbs—winter melon, mung bean, chrysanthemum, bitter gourd, sponge gourd, jin yin hua, yu xing cao, zhi mu—for blood detox.

Discover how detoxification may relieve pain by balancing internal heat and cold. Learn foods like eggplant, apricot, mung bean, bitter gourd, and herbs huanglian, pugongying, and bohe.

Discover how to dissolve phlegm and stop cough by using foods and Chinese herbs, including bitter gourd, sponge gourd, winter melon, white radish, white fungus, lotus seeds, ginger, and seaweed.

Learn how blood stasis affects circulation and how specific foods and herbs dissolve stagnation, including white fungus, hawthorn, almond, tangerine peel, Sānqī, Chuānxiōng, and Yìmǔcǎo.

Discover medicated foods and Chinese medicine for children's physiological, mental, and emotional development, with recipes illustrating qi, yin yang, organ function, five-element theory, and integrated life cultivation.

Explore medicated recipes like wolfberry walnut porridge and longan pigeon egg soup to balance liver yin yang and enhance memory, thinking, and consciousness through spleen and heart function.

Explore exam stress effects on children and how Chinese medicine calms qi and balances emotions. Learn fig red date porridge and pumpkin beef soup to support spleen and lungs.

Tonify liver functionalities through food therapy to support eye health, using pig liver mung bean porridge and cattle liver wolfberry soup as medicated recipes.

Explore medicated foods that support bone development through sesame and cattle bone porridge, and qiànshí crayfish soup, reflecting kidney, heart, and liver connections in Chinese medicine.

Explore how true qi protects the body and how immune strength stems from all organ functionalities, with Shānyào porridge and Dāngguī Huángjīng soup detoxifying and tonifying qi and blood.

Discover how Chinese medicine and medicated foods support adult health by balancing qi, yin and yang, detoxification, and organ function through simple recipes and lifestyle practices.

Explain hypertension via the qi blood model, emphasizing leg circulation and qi movement, and teach fry threads and lower high blood pressure tea to lower blood pressure and blood sugar.

Explore how yin-yang balance of kidneys and liver affects male sexual performance and learn medicated recipes, such as herbs pork rib and wolfberry porridge, to tonify these organs.

Balance liver and heart functions and qi-blood balance to improve sleep using Chinese medicine and food therapy, including Qiànshí Fúlíng Porridge and Suānzǎo rén Honey Tea.

Explore how Chinese medicine and medicated foods address common aging health issues, balancing qi, yin-yang, and organ functions to improve quality of life for older adults.

Balance yin and yang to address heat and cold, then use foods like pugongying jinyinhua porridge and mung bean tu fuling duck soup to cool heat and help prevent cancer.

Explore medicated foods that improve digestion and nutrient absorption, focusing on barley porridge and hawthorn winter melon barley soup to transform undigested food and aid urination.

Ancient water management informs urination and excretion and detoxification through medicated recipes. Use 5 grains brown rice porridge and celery sponge gourd carrot soup to cleanse the stomach and intestines.

Examine yin deficiency and dryness-heat in diabetes from Chinese medicine and learn bitter gourd porridge and corn fiber seaweed soup to cool heat, detoxify, and balance blood.

Explore Chinese medicine and food therapy for female health—beauty, pregnancy, and periods—balancing qi, yin-yang, and organ functions through medicated foods and 5-element theory.

Balance qi, blood, and body fluids to nourish Yin and improve skin, complexion, and overall beauty through medicated foods like lotus date barley porridge and sponge gourd black fungus soup.

Apply Chinese medicine and food therapy to ease period pain by balancing heat and cold and harmonizing qi and blood with Xiǎo huíxiāng soup and Dāngguī hóng huā pork soup.

Explore medicated foods for fetal nourishment and calmness, including glutinous rice huangqi tea and honey sesame paste, to improve qi blood and nourish the fetus.

It explains how tonifying qi and blood can support mother's milk production. It presents medicated recipes like wolfberry pig kidney porridge and Dāngguī pig trotters soup to facilitate milk production.

Discover how kitchen ingredients act as medicine through the five flavors and five qi, tied to heart, spleen, lungs, liver, and kidneys, with health effects from excess or imbalance.

Explore vinegar's warm, sour flavor and its ability to activate liver function, consolidate lungs qi, improve digestion and detox, and boost appetite within Chinese medicine meridian theory.

Explore how salt cools internal heat, nourishes yin, and enters the kidneys' meridians; explain how excess salt unsettles kidney yin-yang, raises blood pressure, and causes swelling.

Sweetness activates the spleen qi, nourishes qi and body fluids, strengthens spleen functions, and contrasts white, brown, and rock sugar's qi and effects on lungs, digestion, phlegm, and mind concentration.

Explore how Tangerine peel, a warm, bitter and pungent kitchen ingredient (陈皮), strengthens Spleen and Lung meridians, dissolves dampness and phlegm, and facilitates qi movement in the Spleen and stomach.

Explore how pungent ingredients like chili liberate the body surface and openings, while chili qi enters the spleen and stomach meridians to warm the middle and aid digestion.

Ginger is a warm, pungent food that enters the lungs, spleen, and stomach meridians to warm the middle, disperse cold, aid digestion, detoxify toxins from fish and crab, prevent vomiting.

Utilize garlic, a warm, pungent food, whose qi enters the lungs, spleen, and stomach meridians, to provide detox, boost immunity, balance blood lipids, lower blood pressure, and support circulation.

Onion, or cong, has warm qi and a pungent flavor that enters the lungs and stomach meridians, releasing heat, driving out cold, and supporting blood, fluid metabolism, and detoxification.