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This Herbal Medicine E-Course offers a complete, and fully integrated system of herbal medicine, that includes a 100+ herbal Materia Medica, with each herb explored through 33 individual categories, and a system of herbal formula, created by Farida Sharan, that has been used effectively in practice by tens of thousands of students and clients, for nearly forty years.

Herbal Medicine is explored in-depth through the continuum of inner ecology, lifestyle, constitutional strengths and weaknesses, food as medicine, energetics, and much more.

The use of Herbal Medicine in acute and chronic conditions, for different phases of life, such as childhood, adolescence, pregnancy and birthing, lactation, menopause, aging and dying, and it’s use in homeopathy, flower essences, essential oils, naturopathy and traditional healing systems such as Chinese and Ayurvedic herbalism, is taught in a holistic and fully integrated way, so that the full potential of these powerful healing agents can be utilized in practice.

The focus of this course is on the knowledge and skill required to become a highly effective practitioner in clinical practice, and students develop, through course assignments, the structure for creating their own practices.

This course also conveys the full scope of information about supportive therapies necessary to ensure the effectiveness of herbal treatment.

Herbal Medicine E-Course Includes:

• 660 page, 12 lesson digital course manual
• Herbs of Grace by Farida Sharan
• Creative Menopause by Farida Sharan
• Course includes in-depth study of 100+ herbal Materia Medica
• Anatomy and Physiology is taught by body system and is integrated throughout the course, with related information about herbal treatment.
• Focus on case taking, pharmacy and dispensary and clinical training

In brief, Herbal Medicine lessons consist of:

  • History and Philosophy

  • Use of herbs in ancient and traditional societies

  • Chemistry

  • Climate, soil, active principles

  • Collecting, harvesting, storage

  • Extraction

  • Food as Medicine

  • Food as Poison

  • Food addictions

  • Affects of diet, coffee, alcohol, drugs, etc on healing process

  • Creating herbal formulas

  • Prescription symbols

  • Herbal Pharmacy terminology

  • Contra-Indications for a range of situations

  • Materia Medica - 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.

  • Body systems and Herbal Medicine

  • Holistic perceptions

  • Body/Mind/Spirit

  • Vitamins and Minerals for body organs, systems and glands

  • Botany

  • Naming and identifying plants

  • Collecting and preparing herbarium specimens

  • Plant classification appendix

  • Pharmacy and dispensary

  • How to set up a pharmacy

  • Dosage

  • Methods of herbal application

  • First Aid Treatment

  • Acute conditions

  • Fomentations

  • Infusions

  • Ointments

  • Ovules

  • Pill making

  • Poultices

  • Smoking herbs

  • Syrups and Tinctures

  • Iastrogenic drug induced disease

  • Herbs and Healing

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