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Chinese Medicine and Home Kitchen
How Chinese Medicine can be used in cooking daily meals?
Created byAndrew Wong
Last updated 8/2025
English
What you'll learn
- • Understand the shared foundations between Chinese Medicine and daily food — such as Qi, Yin-Yang balance, the Five Flavours, and the functions of internal org
- • Discover how food can nourish the body and even help relieve minor illnesses before they become serious.
- • Learn the basic principles of medicinal cooking (药膳) — how to use simple, accessible herbs in your home kitchen to enhance health.
- • Gain practical knowledge to choose and prepare food that aligns with your unique body condition.
- • Build awareness and confidence in using food consciously as part of your self-care and daily life cultivation (养生).
- • Appreciate the ancient wisdom behind the phrase: "Food is medicine, when used correctly."
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Course content
20 sections • 105 lectures • 6h 6m total length
Requirements
- Although all the courses in this series on Ancient Wisdom for Today Well Being are inter-related, this course can be studied by itself first.
Description
For thousands of years, Chinese sages carefully observed how foods and herbs influence the body’s internal balance. They discovered that the same principles that govern medicine — such as Qi, Yin-Yang, the Five Flavours, and organ functionality — also apply to everyday ingredients found in the kitchen.
This video course explores the shared foundations between Chinese Medicine and the foods we consume daily.
You’ll discover how foods, when chosen in accordance with your individual body constituents, can help regulate organ functions and relieve minor discomforts or imbalances. When combined with simple herbs, the results can be even more effective.
This practice, known as 药膳 (medicinal cooking), allows you to benefit from the healing properties of herbs through food — offering a more balanced and sustainable approach to well-being.
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) does not advocate lifelong dependence on herbal medication. Instead, it emphasizes daily life cultivation (养生), especially through dietary practices like food therapy and medicinal cooking that align with a person's health condition.
However, most TCM practitioners do not have the time to guide patients in detail on how to practice Life Cultivation — a field of knowledge in its own right.
That is why we offer a series of video courses on Life Cultivation, rooted in the Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic, the foundational text of TCM.
By understanding the principles in this course, you’ll begin to look at the food you eat differently — not just by its taste or nutritional label, but by its energetic properties, its Qi, Yin or Yang nature, and how it can specifically enhance your personal health.
In this way, you’ll come to fully appreciate the ancient wisdom:
“Food is also Medicine.”
Who this course is for:
- Individuals who believe their body possesses an innate healing system and wish to learn how to activate its power.
- Anyone with a deep curiosity about life, personal well-being, manifesting potentials, health, and the underlying order of the universe.
- Those who, despite facing life's challenges, poor performance, or health issues, are determined to cultivate daily practices for total well-being.
- Health enthusiasts, alternative medicine practitioners, and anyone seeking a more integrated understanding of mind-body connections.