M.S. in Clinical Herbalism (3 years)
Integrates modern scientific knowledge with traditional wisdom to generate a well-informed understanding of the therapeutic potential of medicinal plants. Students learn to apply a bio-psycho-social model of care, learn to conduct a comprehensive assessment, and work cooperatively with clients to develop goals and an individualized health plan.
- Foundations of Health and Wellness
- Redefining Health
- Field Botany for the Herbalist
- Herbal Pharmacy
- Herbal Pharmacology & Phytochemistry
- Herbal Materia Medica I & II
- Field Trip: Nature Intensive I & II
- Field Trip: Herbal Products Industry
- Herbal Therapeutics I & II
- Integrative Human Physiology
- Pathophysiology
- Nutritional Biochemistry
- Advanced Biochemistry, Pathology & Assessment
- Human Nutrition I: Macronutrients
- Human Nutrition II: Micronutrient
- Life Cycle Nutrition
- Energetics of Food
- Becoming a Healing Presence
- Practitioner Skills I & II
- Clinical Skills I & II
- Practice Management I & II
- Applied Therapeutics: Case Studies
- Clinical Rounds
Certificate in Herbal Studies + Therapeutics Grad Program (4 years)
Good herbalists treat people, not diseases, and in our program we teach the skills necessary to accomplish that goal. One of the most comprehensive clinical herbal medicine programs in the US. We focus on what is essential to individualize treatment & help patients to not only resolve symptoms, but create constitutional change needed for physical, emotional & spiritual wellness.
Taught by David Winston, RH (AHG), an internationally respected herbalist with 45 years of clinical experience. For over 35 years, David has been training herbalists, physicians, nurses, nutritionists & other healthcare professionals in the art & science of clinical herbal medicine
- Healing Traditions (TCM, Unani-Tibb, Ayurveda, Cherokee, Greek/Roman)
- Field Botany
- Harvesting
- Energetics
- Herbal Safety (Herb-Drug Interactions, Contraindications, Toxicology)
- Herbal Pharmacy & Alchemy
- Nutrition
- Language of Plants
- 10 Tastes
- Ethnobotany
- Ethnomedicine
- Herbal Phytochemistry
- Functional Blood Chemistry Analysis
- Triune Herbal Formulation System
- Differential Diagnosis
- Diagnostics
- Herb Walks
- Materia Medica (350 herbs)
- Therapeutic Strategies
- Adaptogens
- ADHD
- Alteratives
- Alzheimers
- Herbal Analgesics
- Asthma
- Autism
- Autoimmune
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular Health
- Depression/Anxiety
- Environmental Diseases
- Woman’s Health
- Men’s Health
- Herbal Gastroenterology
- Herbal Pediatrics
- Insulin Resistance
- Migranes
- Nootropics
- Sleep
- Thyroid
- Tick Borne Diseases
- Toxic Botanicals