SUMMARY: During tonight’s Empower Hour! webinar Dr. Chris Bessent returned. She shared another deep dive in Traditional Chinese Vet Med. But this time teaching us about food therapies for pets who vomit.
You can find the GI diets she pictured in her slides at her Medicus diets site available at this link. Most of the great info on this page applies to cats (and other animals/people) as well as dogs.
- 00:00 Introductions
- 05:00 8 Principles of Chinese Medicine
- 08:15 Food’s energetics
- 09:30 TCVM common vomiting disharmonies
- 11:50 Spleen Qi deficiency / 5 flavors of food/ heating foods
- 20:45 Live Qi stagnation / cooling foods
- 31:00 Stomach Yin deficiency
- 38:45 Stomach heat
- 42:40 Food stagnation / canine bland diet
- 48:50 Damp accumulation
- 56:00 Blood stagnation
- 56:40 Canine sensitive stomach diet
- 58:30 Q&A: grain free diet
- 1:00:45 Q&A: chicken wings for diarrhea
- 1:02:30 Q&A: acute issues