Advanced Herbal Actions & Formulation
This product is delivered as a Digital Download of Audio (mp3) and Document/text files (pdf). The recorded lectures were delivered in a classroom setting by Paul Bergner, Medical Herbalist, Clinical Nutritionist, and founder of the North American Institute of Medical Herbalism (NAIMH).
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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.
Description
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 foundation of effective and flexible formulation. This course begins by simplifying and clarifying the concepts of herbal actions, which today are a cacophony 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.
Materials Included
- 12 audio modules containing a total of 120 audio recordings (8 hours and 44 minutes in all)
- 52 pages of notes
- More than 780 pages of article reprints from the Medical Herbalism Journal,
- The Chinese Herbal Materia Medica by Paul Bergner
- A full PDF copy of the principles and Materia medica sections of William Cook’s classic Physiomedical Dispensatory
- A 30-page NAIMH database of herbal pairings used over a 160-year history of the Physiomedicalist school of physician-level herbalism in the U.S and the United Kingdom.
Topics
- Herbal Actions overview and review
- Clinical definitions of herbal actions
- Introduction to Herbal Formulation
- Pairing in Herbal formulation
- Classical Herbal formulas
- Individualized formulas
Click here for a free sample of this audio lecture:
https://www.acornherbschool.com/product-page/advanced-herbal-formulation
Important Information
This product is delivered as a Digital Download of audio and print files. After you purchase this course you will see a link to download the zip file and you will receive an emailed link that will last for 30 days. Once you download the zip file you will need to extract or unzip the files to access the audios and reading materials.
This course material was presented by Paul Bergner to Advanced students in a pre-clinical program at the NAIMH in Boulder, CO in 2010. These audios are a part of the curriculum for the ACORN School of Herbal Medicine’s Advanced Herbalism in the Vitalist Tradition program. We are making these audios accessible for self-study and independent learning. These independent study audio lectures are for personal use only (copyright laws apply). They do not come with faculty support, grading, or a certificate of completion.
Our online programs offer deeper instruction and guidance to apply the teachings within these audio recorded lectures, where you can earn a certificate of completion. If you would like faculty support within a community learning environment to enrich your educational experience, please see our webpage to learn more about certificate programs https://www.acornherbschool.com/online-programs