ADVANCED HERBAL ACTIONS AND FORMULATION
SELF STUDY
 
120 Audios (8 hours and 44 minutes total)
Notes & Slides
PDF Resources (7 total)
 
This is the Self-Study option for this course, which means you can study and learn this material for personal development. This option does not provide faculty support, grading of assignments, or a certificate of completion.

This course is a part of the curriculum for the Advanced Western Materia Medica program. 
 
Overview
Learn how to devise a formula for each patient, rather than for each condition.
Learn a set practical clinical herbal actions that will accurately predict the physiological effects expected in the patient.
Learn how herbal actions are combined, focused, or modified through herbal pairing
Learn the art of herbal pairing to create 2-3 herb compounds
Learn from a database of herbal pairs complied from more than 160 years of North American herbalism
Learn how to use these compounds as simples, or to expand them into more complex formulas
Learn a method to study a complex formula and see the totality of its actions on the tissues.​
 
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 foundatiion 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 formula.