Advanced Herbal Actions & Formulation
Any combination of two herbs will convey the actions of each of the herbs, but may also produce a synergy so as to create an entirely new medicine. The study of pairing and simple combinations is the foundation of effective and flexible formulation. This course begins by simplifying and clarifying the concepts of herbal actions, which today are a cacophany of terms which resembles the state of language after the fall of the Tower of Babel. You will then learn the principles of moving from simple herb, to pair or triplet, and ultimately to complex patient-tailored formulas, adjusted for totality of clinical effect and tailored to the patient's constitution.
Free Lecture from this Course:
Overview
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Learn how to devise a formula for each patient, rather than for each condition.
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Learn a set practical clinical herbal actions that will accurately predict the physiological effects expected in the patient.
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Learn how herbal actions are combined, focused, or modified through herbal pairing
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Learn the art of herbal pairing to create 2-3 herb compounds
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Learn from a database of herbal pairs complied from more than 160 years of North American herbalism
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Learn how to use these compounds as simples, or to expand them into more complex formulas
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Learn a method to study a complex formula and see the totality of its actions on the tissues.
Lessons
Lesson 1. Herbal Actions overview and review
Lesson 2. Clinical definitions of herbal actions
Lesson 3. Introduction to Herbal Formulation
Lesson 4. Pairing in Herbal formulation
Lesson 5. Classical Herbal formulas
Lesson 6. Individualized formulas
Course Materials
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120 audio files totaling over 8 hours
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52 pages of notes & slides
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A PDF library of 7 resources and classical herbal texts totaling over 1500 pages including: article reprints from the Medical Herbalism Journal, Chinese Herbal Materia Medica by Paul Bergner, a full PDF copy of the principles and materia medica sections of William Cook’s classic text Physiomedical Dispensatory, and a 30-page NAIMH database of herbal pairings used over a 160-year history of the Physiomedicalist school of physician-level herbalism in the U.S and the United Kingdom.
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Total storage 482 MB
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This course material was presented by Paul Bergner to Advanced students in a pre-clinical program at the NAIMH in Boulder, CO in 2010.
