Available Courses

• Healing With Herbs

  Cost: $350.00

  This course is based on, and equivalent to, a 30-hour classroom course. It provides a general introduction to the use of medicinal herbs for health promotion and the treatment of common health conditions. It provides a firm, practical foundation for anyone who wants to use herbs for themselves and their families, as well as for those who are considering further education in this field.
  
  Topics include: The philosophy of Western herbalism; the therapeutic properties and uses of herbs; herbal preparations; making herbal formulations; protocols for using herbs for the treatment of acute and chronic conditions; herbs and stress; herbs, detoxification and chronic disease; herbal treatment of acute infectious conditions.
  
  Prerequisite: None.
  
  
• Herbal Field Studies - Introductory Class

  Cost: $65.00

  This class is an online introduction that establishes the theoretical foundation for the Herbal Field Studies workshops.
  
  Herbal Field Studies are a series of seven full-day workshops, taught by Michael Vertolli, running monthly from April to October. Participants will learn how to identify, harvest and use many wild herbs that grow in Ontario . At each field workshop they will also have the opportunity to make some kind of herbal preparation using herbs that they will harvest during the workshop.
  
  To participate in the HFS workshops, students need to have completed this introductory online class.
  
  
• Herbal Therapeutics & Materia Medica Part I -

  Cost: $475.00

  This is an online distance learning course that is based on and equivalent to a 122 hour classroom course. It provides detailed information on the principles and practical application of traditional herbalism. It is organized by organ system.
  
  Because of the length of this course and the amount of information covered, it is divided into three distinct parts. Each part runs like a separate course.
  
  This is PART ONE of Herbal Therapeutics & Materia Medica.
  

  Part I

  • Physiology from a Holistic Perspective
  • Formulating
  • Herbal Treatment of the Epithelial Membranes
  • Herbal Treatment of the Muscular and Skeletal Systems
  • Herbal Treatment of the Nervous System

  Prerequisite: "Healing With Herbs". You need to have fully completed "Healing With Herbs" BEFORE registering for this course.

  Required textbook: ‘Holistic Anatomy: An Integrative Guide to the Human Body’ by Pip Waller, available from Amazon.ca for $13.75. (The same text is used for all three parts of this course).

  
  

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