HERBAL PAIRING AND MODULAR FORMULATION
SELF STUDY
 
74 Audios (8 hours and 28 minutes total)
Notes & Slides
PDF Resources (8 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 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.