Course Overview & Curriculum
The Lessons are designed to provide practical, hands-on experience with each assignment designed to enrich your personal experience with the plant world.
Each lesson Provides:
- Directions and recipes on making herbal preparations
- A list of herbs to research
- Projects such as making an herbal first aid kit, designing an herb garden, or making your own herbarium and plant press.
Course Overview and Curriculum
Lesson one Curriculum
- How to determine good quality herbs.
- Where to get herbs/herbal products.
- Herbs and allopathic medicine.
- Herbal preparation: decoctions/infusions.
- Herbs for the nervous system.
- Herbal nervine formulas.
- General suggestions for a healthy nervous system.
- Health problems related to the nervous system.
- Materia medica for the nervous system.
- Wild plant identification: St. John's wort
Lesson Two Curriculum
- Beverage blends
- How to create beverage blends.
- Terminology used to describe herbs.
- Weights and measures charts
- Herbal Preparation
- Herbal oils
- Salves, ointments, and balms
- Solvents used in herbal preparations
- Herbal first aide: skin problems
- General suggestions for skin problems
- Skin problems and herbal treatments
- Herbal therapeutics: the liver
- The medicinal action of alterative
- Materia medica
- Liver imbalances
- Herbal treatments for liver imbalances
- Hayfever and allergies
- Wild plant identification
Lesson Three Curriculum
Science versus art- Herbal Preparation
- Tinctures
- Liniments
- Capsules
- Herbal Pills
- Herbal therapeutics: the respiratory system
- General guidelines
- Materia medica
- When to treat the respiratory system
- Favorite formulas for the respiratory system
- Programs to follow for respiratory infections
- Asthma/Hayfever/Allergies
- The fine art of drying, harvesting, and storing herbs
- When to harvest
- Drying your herbs
- Storage
- Introduction to Herb identification
Lesson Four Curriculum
Lavender
Herbs for children - Which herbs are safe for children
- Materia medica
- How to determine dosage
- How to administer herbs
- General formulas
- Herbal remedies for children
- Recipes for children's products
- Major chemical constituents of herbs
- Herbal therapeutics: the urinary system
- Herbs for the urinary system
- Materia medica for the urinary system
- Healthy kidneys
- Common imbalances of the urinary system
- Basic aromatherapy
- Essential medicine
- Essential oils
- Aromatherapy charts
- Herbal Dreams
- Dream pillows
- Dream tea
- Dream balm
- Wild plant identification: Dandelion
Lesson Five Curriculum
- Herbal pet care
- General suggestions
- Materia medica
- Common health problems of animals
- General suggestions
- Herbal preparations: Charmoon's 6th. chakra sauce
- The sciences of herbs
- Compresses and poultices
- Poultices
- Compresses
- How to make poultices and compresses
- The incredible plantain poultice
- Herbal stimulants
- How stimulation therapy works
- When to use herbal stimulants
- When not to use herbal stimulants
- Materia medica: herbal stimulants
- Examples of formulas
- Therapies using herbal stimulants
- Stevia and Guarana
- Natural cosmetics
- 5 Steps to perfect skin
- The recipes
- Beauty and the bath
- Home health care products
- Where to get containers and ingredients
- Making your herbal first aide kit
- Kitchen medicine
- Herbal remedies for radiation
- Survival tactics
- Nutritional antidotes
- Wild plant identification: chickweed
Lesson Six Curriculum
- General concerns of women
- Books on women's health
- Women's ceremony and ritual
- Herbs for the female reproductive system
- General guidelines for a healthy female system
- Specific treatments common health problems
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Formulas for pregnancy
- Renewing the body after birth
- Recommended reading
- Menopause and croneship
- Signs of menopause
- General guidelines for menopause
- Specific treatments for menopause
- Estrogen replacement therapy
- Conclusion
Lesson Seven Curriculum
- Creating medicinal formulas
- Guidelines for creating medicinal blends
- Examples of formulation
- Exercises for you to do
- Herbs for winter health
- General guidelines for winter health
- Favorite winter time recipes
- Herbal remedies for winter health
- Herbal therapeutics for male health care
- General guidelines for male health care
- Materia medica for the male system
- Herbal tonics for the male system
- Specific male health problems
- Herbs and health care by J. Green
- Wild plant identification: Yellow dock
Lesson Eight Curriculum
Herb gardening - The basics of gardening
- Recommended reading on herb gardening
- Designing the herb garden
- The culinary garden
- Recipes from the culinary garden
- The medicinal garden
- The medicine wheel herb garden
- How I build my herb garden
- Zigzag to success J. Garden product directory
- Making your own herbarium and plant press
- Making a plant press
- Treatment of scabies and crab infestations
- Herbal preparation: vitamin and mineral formulas
- Herbal therapeutics: the digestive system
- Materia medica for the digestive system
- Imbalances of the digestive system and herbal treatments
Lesson Nine Curriculum
- Preventative health care
- Clinical mock up cases
- Prescription for health and happiness
- Pathways to health and healing by F. Davidson
- Purification and regeneration
- Transition: Ringing the changes
- Purification diet
- Acid/alkaline foods
- Sources of nutrition in herbs and food
- Good health and your skin
- Legal herbalism
- Legal herbalism by K. Collins
- How to handle an FDA or state inspection
- Legal aspects of herbal prescribing
- The question of "safe" and "unsafe" herbs
- Then toxicity hype by M. Blumenthal
- "Herbs are often more toxic than magical"
- Food for thought
Lesson Ten Curriculum
Wild plant identification - Eight steps to learning plant identification
- Wild food cooking
- Recipes
- Flower essences
- Flower essence preparation and usage
- Dosages/How to administer
- Rescue remedy
- Bach flower essences
- Where to obtain flower essences
- The immune system
- Autoimmunity
- The immune system and aging
- Herbs for the immune system
- Building a healthy immune system
- Materia medica for the immune system
- Resources for continuing your herbal studies
- Final Quiz
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