HERBAL PAIRING AND MODULAR FORMULATION

CERTIFICATE COURSE

Course Materials + Tuition

• 74 Audios (8 hours and 28 minutes total)

• Notes & Slides

• PDF Resources (8 total)

This is the Certificate option for this course, which means you will receive faculty support, have your coursework graded, and earn a certificate upon completion of all coursework. The price includes tuition.

This course is a part of the curriculum for the Advanced Clinical Skills program. 

Overview ​In this course you will:​

• Review interview and assessment techniques to determine the patient constitution.

• Review the general principles of herbal combination

• Review principles of substitution of herbal analogues in formulas

• Learn the properties of more than 100 herbal pairs.

• Review important historical combinations of herb from the Physiomedical, Unani, and Chinese systems.

• 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.

• Learn how to quickly and flexibly combine formula modules into complex patient-specific formulas.

• Study more than a dozen classical formulas from Western herbalism.

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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.