Herbal Pairing & Modular Formulation
The clinical art of formulation is to devise a formula appropriate to each patient, specific in its components and their proportions to the condition of the patient, and adjusted or modified to their constitutional presentation. We begin with the study of simple pairs, and then progress to formula modules of 2-4 complementary herbs which can themselves be combined flexibly into larger formulas. In this course we study classical combination and formulas, as well as modern adaptations.
Free Lecture from this Course:
Overview
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Review interview and assessment techniques to determine the patient constitution.
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Review the general principles of herbal combination
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Review principles of substitution of herbal analogues in formulas
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Learn the properties of more than 100 herbal pairs.
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Review important historical combinations of herb from the Physiomedical, Unani, and Chinese systems.
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Learn the composition of more than 25 complex formula modules researched and developed over more than 25 years in the classroom and teaching clinics of the North American Institute of Medical Herbalism.
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Learn how to quickly and flexibly combine formula modules into complex patient-specific formulas.
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Study more than a dozen classical formulas from Western herbalism.
Lessons
Section 1. Patient Assessment for Formulation
Section 2. Principles of Herbal combination
Section 3. Herbal Affinity Groups
Section 4. Modular formulation
Formula Modules
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Demulcent Compound
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Antispasmodic Compound
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Anodyne Compound
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Anti-Inflammatory Compound
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Immune Compound
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Nervine Compound
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Hypnotic Compound
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Tonic/Adaptogen Compound
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Liver Chi Relaxant Compound
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Composition Powder (Stimulant Riaphoretic)
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Relaxant Diaphoretic Compound
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Basic Alterative Compound
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Basic Adjuvant Compound
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Vital Stimulant Compound
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Exhilarant Compound
Course Materials
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74 audio files totaling over 8 hours
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112 pages of notes & slides
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A PDF library of 8 resources and classical herbal texts totaling over 2100 pages, including article reprints from the Medical Herbalism Journal, the 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 569 MB
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This lecture was presented by Paul Bergner to Advanced Herbalism students in a pre-clinical program at the NAIMH in Boulder, CO in 2010.
