Australasian College of Health Sciences
Distance Learning Herbalist Training
Australasian College of Health Sciences offers three herbalist training programs, from Herbal Medicine for the Home Herbalist to how to harvest your own wild herbs to becoming a Master Herbalist. The programs are also well suited to health care professionals seeking training in complementary health care.
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The Basics of Herbalism™ Online
The Basics of Herbalism™ Online program is the first step in your herbal training, and is ideal if you have just discovered herbs and want to know more.
Upon completion of The Basics of Herbalism™ Online program, you will be able to:
- Cook using herbs, including edible flowers, culinary herbs, and weeds.
- Create and use herbal remedies for women, babies, and children.
- Create and use herbal remedies for your family for optimal health.
- Create herbal cosmetics.
- Dry and store herbs.
- Explain and discuss the foundation of herbal medicine and its history.
- Gather wild herbs ethically.
- Grow herbs organically.
- Identify what makes herbs work and create herbal preparations.
- Recognize and confidently use 15 common herbs.
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Certificate in Herbal Studies™ Online
Herbal Medicine for the Home Herbalist
The Certificate in Herbal Studies - Herbal Medicine for the Home Herbalist training program is designed to build on The Basics of Herbalism, and is the next step in your herbal medicine training.
Prepare yourself for such careers as a natural health retailer or manufacturer, a family herbalist, herb farm owner, manager or employee.
Upon completion of the Certificate in Herbal Studies training program, you will be able to:
- Create herbal blends and products, from ointments to fomentations, including blends for hair, skin, and nails.
- Discuss the history of herbal medicine, why it works, and the impact of current research.
- Identify and use herbal and nutritional support.
- Identify key ingredients for a healthy lifestyle and potential problem areas.
- Know when not to use home treatments.
- Use 40 medicinal plants with confidence.
- Use and understand the language of herbal therapeutic actions.
- Use herbal first aid.
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Diploma in Herbal Studies - Master Herbalist™ Online
The Diploma in Herbal Studies - Master Herbalist training program is rigorous. It is designed for the serious student seeking a professional working knowledge of herbal medicine. This program is also ideal for medical professionals wishing to increase their knowledge in the exciting field of herbalism, and integrate it into their current practice. This could include physicians, psychologists, pharmacists, nurses, veterinarians, respiratory therapists, or social workers.
The Diploma in Herbal Studies - Master Herbalist training program will prepare you for such career opportunities as: master herbalist, clinical herbalist, herbal educator, herbal consultant, herbal retailer, or herbal products manufacturer.
Upon completion of the Diploma in Herbal Studies - Master Herbalist training, you will be able to:
- Discuss and describe the body’s structure and function in a healthy state.
- Examine over 40 common health problems and learn how complementary health methods can assist with each.
- Formulate herbal remedies and determine the appropriate blend of herbs for a client.
- Identify the major active constituents, safety issues, historical uses, latest research, ,drug/herb interactions, uses, and preparations for 150 popular botanicals.
- Implement herbal first aid procedures.
- Modify your herbal knowledge for use with pets and pastoral animals.
- Outline the steps to set up a Master Herbalist consultancy, including case taking, case studies, clinic management, legal issues, informed consent, nutritional, lifestyle, and wellness counseling, and ethics (including AHG ethics).
- Recommend complementary assistance for optimal health using iridology, reflexology, aromatherapy, flower essences, nutrition, yin-yang philosophy, and homeopathy.
- Understand and describe herbal therapeutic actions.
- Understand body system.
- Understand medical terminology.
- Understand plant identification, ethical wild crafting, sustainable harvesting, field identification, and safety procedures.
- Apply for professional membership with the American Herbalists Guild once AHG clinical requirements are met.
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