Comprehensive training in herbal medicine
Professional Herbalist Course
The Professional Herbalist Course includes 36 detailed lessons on the foundations of food therapy, herbal medicine, herbal energetics, assessment of disease, an extensive materia medica, formulary, preparations, remedies, therapies, advanced diagnostic tools, specific conditions with their herbal treatments and much more. These are all geared to help you become the most efficient and effective herbalist possible. We incorporate the wisdom, materia medica, and energetics of herbs and disease from around the world, particularly Traditional Chinese Medicine, Western herbalism and a sprinkle of Traditional Ayurvedic Medicine.
This online learning course is suitable for:
- Beginning to intermediate student
- Someone interested in herbal medicine with aspirations to become a professional herbalist, working in any one of the many parts of the industry.
- Someone who wants to take a deep dive into herbal medicine.
- Someone who wants to study with world renowed teachers with a proven record.
- Someone interested in becoming a clinical herbalist.
- Someone who is ready to commit to an extensive curriculum, working closely with our professional staff as they guide you through the course toward your goal of becoming a professional herbalist.
Professional Herbalist Course highlights
BECOME AN HERBALIST
The complete Professional Herbalist Course offers a certificate of completion and 5 year access to Herb Whisperer’s Learning Center. The Learning Center includes a student forum where you can interact with other students, ask questions, and share your progress. There are weekly chats with the faculty, and an extensive library of articles and books.
Price: $2969
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What you get with the Professional Herbalist Course
- Course Length: 18 - 36 months
- 36 lessons containing hundreds of herb monographs and formulas
- Convenient new layout of the materia medica lessons with roomy margins for personal notes and accessible, easy-to-read and study text
- Lessons total nearly 2200 pages of material developed over 40 years by Michael and Lesley Tierra
- Over 600 herb entries, 264 formulas, and herbal approaches given for treating 944 health conditions
- Private and moderated forums and groups specific to your studies
- Trains students in the use of all the necessary tools to become a professional herbalist, from history to medicine making to learning diagnostic skills, we've got it all
- The convenience of studying herbs at home at your own pace with well-respected herbalists and teachers
Want to take a deep dive into herbal medicine, particularly traditional energetic systems of understanding herbs, health, and disease?
- Detailed lessons from real professional herbalists with real clinical experience
- Study with Dr. Thomas Avery Garran, PhD, RH, a world renowned herbalist, author, translator, and scholar
- On-line Learning Center with forums, weekly video meetings and presentations by Dr. Garran and the entire professional staff
- A 36-lesson step-by-step education that you complete at your own pace from your own location
- Personalized evaluation to lesson test essays and projects for all 36 Lessons
- An extensive materia medica of Western, Chinese, and Ayurvedic herbs plus those from other world traditional medicines
- Detailed formulation and formulary teachings
- Dietary energetics and food therapy
- Guidelines for herbal preparations, remedies and traditional healing therapies and techniques
- In-depth study of the main herbal categories and how to use their herbs clinically and therapeutically
- In-depth knowledge of how to differentiate and treat disease patterns (rather than diagnosis and treat diseases) and to effectively and efficiently apply herbal remedies and formulas to those patterns
- Treatment of multiple disease conditions with their assessment and herbal treatment strategies
- Foundation and advanced assessment techniques and treatment strategies
- Adjunct training modules with training in cultivation of medicinal plants, processing, and many other key areas of specialization within the herbal medicine profession
- Optional annual on-site and hands-on Herb Whisperer training seminars.
- The confidence to use herbs to heal yourself and others safely and effectively, no matter where you are, using local, distant, and exotic plants
- A 5 year subscription to Herb Whisperer’s Learning Center, which includes all the weekly chats, student forums, webinars, articles, digital library, and more
We empower you with resources to be self-sufficient when caring for yourself and your family. As the caretakers of the East West School of Herbology, one of the oldest and most respected schools of herbology in North America, we offer decades of experience in the field, both as practitioners and as teachers and mentors to some of the most well-known herbalists in the world.
The Professional Herbalist Course teaches you how to use herbs to effectively and efficiently treat yourself and others. It guides you through the many levels of herbal medicine, enabling you to seek employment in any of the many areas of herbal medicine, including sourcing, quality control, etc. It is perfect for those who desire an in-depth knowledge of herbs and how to use them clinically. This complete course is also perfect for those who desire more thorough herbal knowledge spanning sustainability, wild crafting, cultivation, processing, quality assessment, and much more.
This course is based on, but definitely not limited to, a foundation of Chinese medicine. We incorporate a significant amount of Western herbal medicine and a sprinkling of Ayurvedic medicine. In this course you learn how to differentiate and treat disease patterns (rather than diagnose and treat diseases) and to competently and proficiently apply herbal remedies and formulas.
The Professional Herbalist Course emphasizes a materia medica of over 600 herbs — Western, Chinese, and Ayurvedic — along with diagnostic skills, treatment strategies, formulation, and much more for hundreds of ailments.
BECOME AN HERBALIST
The complete Professional Herbalist Course offers a certificate of completion and 5 year access to Herb Whisperer’s Learning Center. The Learning Center includes a student forum where you can interact with other students, ask questions, and share your progress. There are weekly chats with the faculty, and an extensive library of articles and books.
Price $2969*
*Shipping for textbooks is FREE for domestic but not for international mailing