What You Will Learn!
- Students will learn the different parts of the plant and how to harvest.
- Students will learn 36 different ways to process a plant for medicinal benefits.
- Students will learn 14 different professionals who use herbs.
- Students will have an understanding of the history of biodynamic practices.
- Students will learn the difference in how different herbal practices view the elements, and they will learn how the elements work in herbalism.
- Students will learn the esoteric beginnings of herbalism.
- Students will be able to distinguish between oral traditions, anthropology and the historical record of herbalism.
- Students will learn how plants shaped human culture.
- Students will learn when the written history of herbalism starts around the globe.
- Students will learn about Peru, Mexico, ancient Sumer, Egypt, India and China's historic relationship to plant medicine.
- Students will discover how plant medicine was exchanged on the trade routes.
Description
Decoding Herbalism Volume One: Theory and History of Herbal Medicine
This class is for anyone interested in how plant medicine helped shape humans and human culture.
Learn 36 different ways plants can be processed into herbal medicine.
Discover 14 different professions that use herbal medicine in their practice.
Uncover the past history from paleolithic to the neolithic to modern day herbalism.
This class is for anyone who needs a roadmap to the herb department at the health food store.
Learn the difference between flower essences and essential oils.
Find out the difference between a tea and an herbal infusion.
Discover the difference between an extract and a tincture.
This class is for people who are interested in learning the different herbal traditions.
Discuss the opposing views on the elements in herbal medicine.
Learn which traditions came first and lasted the longest.
Find out the difference between Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda.
This class is for people interested in uncovering our past.
Discover how herbal diets shaped hominid jawlines.
Read about the traditions of Atlantis and Lemuria.
Learn how the Silk Road influenced the spread of herbal medicine.
Who Should Attend!
- People who are interested in learning about the different medicinal parts to the plants should take this course.
- People who are interested in learning about the different ways herbal medicine is processed should take this class.
- If you are interested in learning about the different professionals who handle herbal medicine, this is the course for you.
- You should take this course if you are interested in learning how herbalism shaped human development throughout history.
