Clinical Herbal Formulations and Constitutional Theory – 2nd year

This class takes the introductory herbal experience and goes much deeper.

• Learn the benefits of various herbal preparations and their powerful role in healing.
• From exploring client intake files to creating herbal protocols
• Covering herbal formulations, nutritional recommendations, lifestyle counseling,
• and more through this advanced level course,
• Facilitate systemic balancing based on the individual client’s constitutions
• and build your career in herbal advocacy and wellness.
• Covering Michael Moore’s Constitutional Physiology of excess and deficiency,
• Discover even more constitutional theories from various cultural modalities and schools of thought.
• This includes an in-depth exploration of how stress affects our physiology
• and common nutrient deficiencies that complicate symptom pictures.

Who should enroll in this course:

• Herbal students who are ready to expand their home practice
• Herbal advocates who want to begin supporting people’s wellness outside of their own family and close friends group
• Students who have taken at least one herbal and/or nutritional course in the past
• Through 100-hours of informational lectures, clinic and lab hours, and weekly Q&A.

This course prepares you to:

• Work in a clinical setting 
• Research physiology and identify root causes of common symptoms
• Assess typical nutritional deficiencies and prepare a variety of effective nutritional and herbal remedies
• Formulate for our most common health issues like acute and chronic respiratory infections, renal issues, musculoskeletal pain, hormonal imbalances, blood sugar issues, cardiovascular concerns, digestive dysbiosis, and more.

The course syllabus includes:

• Review of herbal actions, energetics of plants, people and place, and vitality
• Ethics of working clinically
• Physiology of the stress response including understanding the autonomic nervous system
• Physiology of inflammation
• Acute and chronic formulas and dosages
• Constitutional Theory with a focus on Michael Moore's Constitutional Physiology
• History of the Greek Constitutional Theory, the Four Humours and connection to Western herbalism
• Writing, reading, and understanding case intakes
• Nutritional deficiency red flags 
• Contraindications — what to look for before suggesting herbs
• When to encourage your client to seek additional help
• IgE mediated histamine response
• Endocrine disruption, hormonal balance, and your client
• Environmental toxin contribution like 4 P’s of xeno-estrogens
• Advanced medicine making including percolation tinctures, multi-solvent, concentrated tinctures, and fluid extracts
• and more fascinating and relatable tidbits

Tuesdays 6 - 9 pm (pst)

July 25th - December 12th

We will meet live online via Zoom

This is offered as part of our

Community Herbalism Program (2nd year)

Ala Carte Cost $1500

*Foundational Herbalism or some basic herbal training is required to sign up for this course. 

"On top of all the medicine we made that I get to have in my personal apothocary,

I also forged relationships with those plants.

I learned how to key them out,

and soon was able to recognize the shape and color of their leaves & flowers from across the valley.

Also, I got more involved in the local & national herbal community."

Haley