Advanced Herbal Science Certificate Course
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$199.00
$199.00
Intro to Advanced Herbal Science Certificate Course
The herbal exploration continues a little deeper! This course can be taken as a freestanding course or can be combined with the Family Herbalist and/or Community Herbalist Certificate Foundation course for a more well rounded and experience.
The herbal exploration continues a little deeper! This course can be taken as a freestanding course or can be combined with the Family Herbalist and/or Community Herbalist Certificate Foundation course for a more well rounded and experience.
An 8-week webinar series with Mimi Hernandez, MS, RH (AHG)
"I loved the webinar! So much great info and many Aha moments for me! Thank you again for sharing your knowledge. " Jeanie Muetz Francis, Master Gardener
"Mimi is an awesome teacher covering a broad spectrum of topics that give the student holistic understanding of plants, healing and medicine!” Addie McDermott, Earthroots, Advanced Herbal Science Graduate
Intro to Advanced Herbal Science Certificate Course: The herbal exploration continues a little deeper! This course can be taken as a freestanding course or can be combined with the Family Herbalist and/or Community Herbalist Certificate Foundation course for a more well rounded and experience.
8 Informational Sessions!!
Session 1: Woodland Herbalism and Wildcrafting: Forest pharmacy is a traditional American heritage. Find out why in this class designed to familiarize students with the most common medicinal herbs in the forest. Learn the fascinating stories of their traditional uses and how science supports many of those uses. We will discuss plants like goldenseal, ginseng, black cohosh, stoneroot, and many more! Learn the keys to sustainable and ethical wildcrafting and harvesting.
Session 2: Stress, Adaptogens, and the Power of Perception: Supporting endocrine system, thyroid, and adrenals: Stress is a physiological response caused by physical stressors and the perception of danger in our midst. Learn about the hormonal and biological impacts of stress on our bodies while uncovering the evidence‐based protection of herbal adaptogens and the life shifting influences of changing one’s perception. Today’s society is busy, stressed out, and overworked! Sound familiar? Consistent amounts of stress for a prolonged period of time can have serious health implications. Learn how to nourish yourself and your loved ones back into balance with food and herbal remedies that can increase the body's resistance to stress, trauma, anxiety and fatigue.
Session 3: Phytochemicals; What, Why and How? Phytochemistry refers to the chemical structures in plants. This introduction to phytochemistry as it relates to herbal medicine will be taught in simple and friendly terminology. Topics will include polysaccharides, polyphenols, alkaloids, tannins, resins, volatile oils, and many more! Learn why plants exhibit medicinal properties and learn about their solubility traits for better medicine making!
Session 4 and 5: Herb and Prescription Drug Interactions part 1 & 2 Countless patients are taking prescription medications simultaneously with herbal products. More than ever, practitioners and their patients should be informed about the compatibilities of herbs with prescription medications and their possible adverse interactions. With some general insights in pharmacology, we can foresee possible interactions and thus take precautions to avoid incompatibilities. Come learn the latest information in this discussion of the most common drug-herb interactions. Learn the herbal history behind the making of aspirin and blood thinning medications in this conversation.
Session 6: World Roots! Experience elixirs of vitality from around the world with these culturally important roots. Learn cultural and ethnobotanical uses of these roots along with the scientific research supporting these tonics for energy, cancer, immunity, and reproductive vitality. Among these we will discuss Maca Root, Eleuthero root, Ashwaganda root, Shatavari root, and Astragalus root in depth!
Session 7: Advanced Herbal Medicine Making
Session 8: Herbal Case Studies: Let’s talk herbal application step by step as Mimi shares some of her favorite case studies. Where do we even begin? How do people take their herbs? Did they work? Stay tuned for common cases that discuss digestive issues, arthritis, diabetes prevention, sinus infection, and depression. Students will be presented with background information and will be asked to put together a plan. The following week will divulge the case findings in dialogue and discussion.
About Mimi Hernandez
Mimi Hernandez, RH(AHG), MS, comes from a background as an herbalist and as an ethnobotanist. Her teachings weave together science, tradition, and intuition in ways that speak to diverse learning communities. In her home range, Appalachia, Mimi is probably best known for providing cultural heritage outreach to local mountain residents through mountain root lore. Mimi draws upon her rich ethnic background & the Latin American Granny healers in her life. She believes that the handing down of plant wisdom is essential and it is her life's work to advocate for traditional and professional herbal pathways while building cultural bridges of understanding. She has had the remarkable opportunity to honor this work through past and present leadership roles within various educational communities including a former appointment at Appalachian Center for Ethnobotanical Studies at Frostburg State University, a current position as the Executive Director of the American Herbalists Guild, and a founding member of the One World Healing Community.