Herbal Medicine – Independent Health lays the foundation for the identification, harvesting, and preservation of herbs, along with the creation of herbal formulas and the preparation of various items such as tinctures, salves, fomentations, poultices, ovules, infusions, syrups, lozenges, and more. This course, if you desire to establish your own herbal pharmacy, self-heal, aid your family, or produce herbal products, will endure as a wellspring of knowledge, wisdom, and inspiration for years to come.
The Herbal Medicine – Independent Health Online Course, led by Bonny Casel, integrates a comprehensive Materia Medica encompassing more than 140 herbs and a formula system for body organs, systems, and glands. This holistic approach renders herbal medicine relevant to the entirety of an individual.
Over the course of 12 lessons spanning 750 pages, participants gain insight into herbal medicine, coupled with access to numerous rare ebooks on the subject.
Subjects covered include:
- History and Philosophy
- Materia Medica (116 primary herbs and dozens of supporting herbs) – encompassing action, active ingredients, activity, applications, aromatherapy, astrology, Ayurveda, cautions, contraindications, chakras, elements, emotions, Chinese medicine, combinations, cultivation, dosage, energetics, flower essences, formulas, habitat, history, homeopathy, meridians, organs, names, nutrients, part used, personality, plant description, research, spiritual properties, substitutions, systems, taste, tissues, wildcrafting, and preparation.
- Botany
- Utilization of herbs in ancient and traditional societies
- Iatrogenic drug-induced diseases
- Chemistry of herbs
- Herbs and healing
- Plant naming and identification
- Climate, soil, active principles
- Holistic perceptions
- Herb collection and preparation of herbarium specimens
- Collecting, harvesting, storage
- Body, mind, spirit
- Plant classification appendix
- Extraction
- Vitamins and minerals for body organs, systems, and glands
- Pharmacy and dispensary
- Food as Medicine
- Establishment of a pharmacy
- Food addictions
- Dosage
- Effects of diet, coffee, alcohol, drugs, etc., on the healing process
- Methods of herbal application
- Creation of herbal formulas
- First aid treatment
- Prescription symbols
- Acute conditions
- Herbal pharmacy terminology
- Fomentations
- Contraindications for various situations
- Infusions
- Body systems and herbal medicine (anatomy and physiology are taught by body system and integrated throughout the course)
- Ointments
- Ovules
- Pill making
- Poultices
- Smoking herbs
- Syrups and tinctures
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Course Features
- Lectures 1
- Quizzes 0
- Duration 10 weeks
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 0
- Assessments Yes