Herbal Alchemy: Herbal Formulating & Building Your Own Materia Medica
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Combining herbs is an art, as well as a science, and as herbalists we do both. For work with folks who have deep seated health conditions, chronic and or auto-immune, individual formulas can be helpful. We will examine some traditional approaches to formulating herbs – for internal and external use - and we will explore in depth William LeSassier’s triune system. Once you understand the triune system in depth it is akin to learning a new language of herbs, and you can begin to get outside of the structure and create your own formulas with focus and understanding of each herb and its many actions and properties and synergies. Based on this wisdom we can begin to add new herbs to our personal material medica and realize how herbs in combination can be strong and effective.
Course Syllabus
Week 1 – Simples, understanding the nature and character of an herb, multitasking herbs, spirit herbs, when simples are best, strategies for decoding herbals, European herbals in translation, finding your own best resources, local herbs, making a kitchen formula. Begin expanding our material medica working knowledge.
Week 2 – The Art of Substitution – the best herb is the one you have; Understanding the nature of a condition. Acute vs chronic conditions. Bell formulas and deconstruction. The Vitalists, Eclectics and Cherokee style formulas. Fluency of herbal terms. Pharmacy vs. folk methods. Practice creating herbal pairs, and pair combinations.
Week 3 – Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) formula basics with Western herbs- yin/yang is not a duality; Ayurvedic herb combining and approach to protocol. Local herbs and trees. Delivery systems, time release of constituents, charts. Practice building formulas from actual cases. More focus on topical herbal formulas and effective methods.
Week 4 – Naturopathic approach to herb formulas. William LeSassier and Triune foundational triangle. How to navigate without a map – building, balancing, clearing herbs- how to know which is which. Expanding our materia medica with triangles in mind. Beginning work on chronic health conditions, auto-immune.
Week 5 – Dosage, cautions and timelines, Adjusting and fine tuning a formula. Building a full 9 herb triune formula and practice at shifting the focus as conditions change. When to separate an herb. Case study work combining herbs using tree medicine, invasives and ordinary herbs.
Week 6 – Formulas for chronic conditions, for special elderly, children, animals. Review, overview, practice, questions and issues, practice working on complicated cases.
About Leslie Williams, RH(AHG), M.Ed.
Leslie has been in clinical herbal practice for 30 years. She teaches herbalists to think like herbalists and to realize the gravity and wonder of our work. Her background includes traditional Southern USA folk herbalism as well as training in Ayurveda, basic TCM herbal and assessment skills, as well as a combination of European, Vitalist, Eclectic, Magical and contemporary scientific research. She uses concrete examples to ground her herbal teaching.
For more information, visit www.ordinaryherbalist.com
Week 1 – Simples, understanding the nature and character of an herb, multitasking herbs, spirit herbs, when simples are best, strategies for decoding herbals, European herbals in translation, finding your own best resources, local herbs, making a kitchen formula. Begin expanding our material medica working knowledge.
Week 2 – The Art of Substitution – the best herb is the one you have; Understanding the nature of a condition. Acute vs chronic conditions. Bell formulas and deconstruction. The Vitalists, Eclectics and Cherokee style formulas. Fluency of herbal terms. Pharmacy vs. folk methods. Practice creating herbal pairs, and pair combinations.
Week 3 – Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) formula basics with Western herbs- yin/yang is not a duality; Ayurvedic herb combining and approach to protocol. Local herbs and trees. Delivery systems, time release of constituents, charts. Practice building formulas from actual cases. More focus on topical herbal formulas and effective methods.
Week 4 – Naturopathic approach to herb formulas. William LeSassier and Triune foundational triangle. How to navigate without a map – building, balancing, clearing herbs- how to know which is which. Expanding our materia medica with triangles in mind. Beginning work on chronic health conditions, auto-immune.
Week 5 – Dosage, cautions and timelines, Adjusting and fine tuning a formula. Building a full 9 herb triune formula and practice at shifting the focus as conditions change. When to separate an herb. Case study work combining herbs using tree medicine, invasives and ordinary herbs.
Week 6 – Formulas for chronic conditions, for special elderly, children, animals. Review, overview, practice, questions and issues, practice working on complicated cases.
About Leslie Williams, RH(AHG), M.Ed.
Leslie has been in clinical herbal practice for 30 years. She teaches herbalists to think like herbalists and to realize the gravity and wonder of our work. Her background includes traditional Southern USA folk herbalism as well as training in Ayurveda, basic TCM herbal and assessment skills, as well as a combination of European, Vitalist, Eclectic, Magical and contemporary scientific research. She uses concrete examples to ground her herbal teaching.
For more information, visit www.ordinaryherbalist.com