This introductory course connects the foundations of Tibetan Medical theory and practice to clinical use of food, both as antidote and preventive medicine in the modern clinic. We explore the essential instructions derived from the 16th-20th chapters of the Explanatory Tantra and apply their relevance in modern nutritional concepts, healthy diet and disease management.
11 September 16:00-18:00; September 12, 15:30-17:30 (St Petersburg Time)
This online course was organized by MATTM St. Petersburg in addition to ongoing studies. .https://www.mattmpetergof.ru/novosti/198-pervyj-blok-3-semestr
Teaching in English with consistent translation into Russian by Bella Bash.
In the Tibetan tradition, nutrition is one of the ways to treat, along with lifestyle, medicinal therapy and external treatments. Proper nutrition plays a crucial role in the prevention of diseases.
Registration for the course with Menpa Nashalla Nyinda. https://mattm-petergof-sorig-khan.timepad.ru/event/1740879/
The classes will detail the instructions given in 16-20 chapters of Tibetan medicine's indigenous text, Explanatory Tantra, in application with modern clinical practices, various diets, healthy diet concepts, prevention and treatment of diseases.
Dr. Nyinda will talk about medical nutrition, sowa rigpa and will hold analogies with modern recommendations of nutritiologists.
An overview of modern food products that constitute a regular diet of a metropolis resident will also be made.
This course focuses on the integration of ancient knowledge into modern living conditions.The course will provide clear explanations on how to navigate the subject, how to distinguish a scientific approach in dietitics from dilettos.
We will discuss separately how to determine the properties of those products that can be found on the store shelves.
How to evaluate modern food from the perspective of Tibetan Medicine. Dr. Nyinda will talk about the differences in food products obtained in the traditional way described in ancient texts and food produced massively at farms or plants, often using chemical agents.
Is there really a difference between the same products obtained in different ways and why? Special attention will be paid to maintaining intestines microbiota. In fact, ancient texts provide detailed instructions on this, but unusual language to us, Dr. Nyinda will help translate these instructions into terms of modern nutritiology and describe in categories of modern products.
The cost of the course is 4000 rubles.
Registration and all the details: https://mattm-petergof-sorig-khan.timepad.ru/event/1740879/