Materia Medica Differentials

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
Nutritive herbs, with humoral differentials
Demulcent herbs with differentiation between bitter and sweet and superficial vs constitutional effects
Topical herbs, with differentials by humoral effect, and also five types of action on chronic biofilm infections.
Nervine herbs with differentials for warming, cooling, drying, and demulcent.
Anodynes, with differentials by humoral effect, effect on spasm, and tissue types for antispasmodics.
Differentials and analogues among the 3 Cohosh plants
The Mints, with differentials for bitter vs sweet, effects on the pattern of constrained liver chi, and for anti-herpes and antifungal effects, and effects on the cardiovascular system.
Expectorants, with differentials based on stimulating vs relaxing effects on the membranes.
Hot herbs, with differentials for anti-inflammatory, anti-diabetic, and aphrodisiac effects.
Urinary tract differentials for heating vs cooling, diuretic strength, stimulating vs relaxing.
Bitter herb differentials including strength, tonic-astringency, aromatic properties, and sedative or laxative effects.
Alterative differentials, including effects on the liver, the bowel, the kidney, the immune system, and digestion.
Berberine-containing herbs, with differentiation between plants with companion-alkaloids.
Adaptogen differentials, including stimulation, tonification, and effects on the immune and reproductive systems.
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Description
A complete study of materia medica goes far deeper than the this-for-that model of herbalism. For effective clinical use, and to avoid adverse humoral/energetic effects, an herb must be understood in the categories of humoral and energetic effects, including hot vs. cold, moist vs dry, tension vs relaxation, in addition to definite clinical actions, tissues affected, uses, and useful combinations and formulas. With this depth of study, we find that herbs can be recognized in groups that have very similar effects, and may be interchanged as analogues clinically. In this course we describe more than 30 such “herbal affinity groups” of more than 100 herbs, show how the herbs within the group may be used as analogues, and describe differentials between them. This course is the culmination of in-depth study of comparative materia medica at the North American Institute of Medical Herbalism over a period of 25 years.
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Materials Included
16 audio modules containing a total of 137 audio recordings (11 hours and 38 minutes in all)
More than 230 slides to accompany the lectures
Supplementary notes and readings
A digital library of classic texts in medical herbalism
 
Lessons
Materia Medica Study
Nutritive Herb Differentials
Demulcent Herb Differentials
Topical Herb Differentials
Nervine Herb Differentials
Anodyne Herb Differentials
Cohosh Differentials
Mint Herb Differentials
Liver Chi Differentials
Expectorant Differentials
Hot Herb Differentials
Urinary Herb Differentials
Bitter Herb Differentials
Alterative Herb Differentials
Adaptogen Differentials
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Important Information
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The recorded lectures were delivered by NAIMH Director Paul Bergner in classroom settings. 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.
 
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