Seminar Description

Few areas in health are as misunderstood and fraught with misinformation as the field of diet and supplementation. Conflicting fad diets sprout monthly. As innately wholistic forms of medicine, Chinese medicine and Chiropractic are congruent with an approach to nutritional supplementation which uses concentrated living foods. Synthetic or fractionated vitamins, lacking life energy, are ineffective, potentially harmful, and incongruent with the wholistic perspective. It is the energy of the food that counts more so than its isolated nutrient content. The whole-food approach is the nutritional therapy consistent with the mindset and principles of Chinese medicine and Chiropractic.

This is a foundational seminar in applying the whole foods philosophy to clinical nutrition. Dr Royal Lee, the greatest nutritionist the world has ever seen and one of the founders of the field, offered truths about food and supplements that modern research has only begun to catch up with in recent years, some five decades after he spoke them. This approach combines an ideal diet of organic, minimally processed, locally-grown food, with food- and plant-based nutritional and botanical supplementation. The seminar deftly compares this with highly processed foods and synthetic “nutraceutical” supplements, which comprise most modern nutritional therapy, and which have only made people sicker. It reveals the antioxidant myth as the lie that it is, and explores some of the mountainous evidence of its harm.

Another key to including Western herbs in the clinic is becoming knowledgeable about herbs that have no counterpart or equivalent in the Chinese herbal pharmacy. Echinacea is an oft-misunderstood Native American herb of immense benefit to a wide range of patients with chronic and acute conditions. Echinacea stands out as the most significant Western botanical that has no Asian analog, even in the incomparably huge 10,000-substance Chinese herbal medicine materia medica. Echinacea is a natural addition to the clinician’s toolbox, once it is understood that it has wide application and great benefit, and that there are no herbs known in Chinese medicine that share its Western physiologic actions. In addition to Echinacea, there are a wide range of botanicals from around the globe which can complement your existing modalities, without compromising the integrity of practice. This intensive seminar prepares clinicians in the indications, cautions and doses of ten professional-quality botanicals that will enhance any healthcare practice.

Any acupuncture or chiropractic practice can greatly benefit from incorporating complementary therapies congruent with its core principles. A unique aspect of this seminar is its emphasis on diet and whole-food nutritional supplementation as the foundation of optimal herbal therapy. With each herb, you will learn the synergistic food concentrates that enhance its effectiveness, dramatically improving patient benefit and clinical results.