Course Overview

This module is the third in a five-part series that provides you with the essential tools to expand your acupuncture practice to include treating babies and children. Digestive health is the foundation of childhood development and constipation is common, either as a presenting complaint or as an additional symptom to another illness. Often just regulating the bowels can be enough to clear conditions such as abdominal pain, insomnia, eczema, asthma etc. This module also covers aspects of diet that are most relevant in the treatment of children, based on traditional Chinese principles. In addition, in this module we discuss chronic diarrhoea, the most common form in the clinic, and how to treat it with acupuncture and with dietary advice.

Course Objectives

• Understand how constipation in childhood can lead to a  range of conditions such as abdominal pain, insomnia,  eczema, asthma etc.
• Learn how to regulate the bowels.
• Understanding the energetics of food and common foods  in a Western child's diet that lead to health issues.
• Understanding acute and chronic diarrhoea and how to treat it with acupuncture and with dietary advice.

Course Outline

0 hrs - 45 minWelcome and course overview for Module 3. Constipation: underlying causes, constitutional types, treatments. Photos: pictures of case studies from Julian’s clinic.

45 min - 1.5 hrsDiet and nutritional advice for constipation. Diarrhoea: underlying causes, constitutional types, treatments.

1.5 hrs - 2 hrsDifferentiating the main causes of digestive illnesses.

2 hrs - 3.5 hrsHow to select acupuncture points according to underlying condition.Advice for parents about food and cooking – according to properties.

3.5 hrs - 4.25 hrsSummary, Q&A and close.