CERTIFICATE IN HERBAL STUDIES (non-practising)

This one or two-year certificate teaches Herbal Medicine for treating yourself and your family.

Course content

Herbal Medicine 1A and 1B (128 hours)

Current tuition fees are provided in our prospectus, or enquire at our office.

• Botany
• Materia Medica
• Manufacturing and Dispensing
• Herb Growing

The herbal medicine course is taught during the full-time teaching schedule. A timetable for classes is available on request from the office. For more information on Herbal Studies course modules click HERE.

Anatomy and Physiology A & B

Current tuition fees are provided in our prospectus, or enquire at our office.

Anatomy & Physiology A & B is available on either Monday morning or Monday evening.

This course has been approved for student loans but individual students must be studying 0.25 of a full time course to be eligible for a loan. Students ineligible for loans may pay for their courses by means of fortnightly automatic payments.

Some textbooks and photocopied notes are available from the college but not included in the fee.

Course modules

Herbal Medicine 1A

Materia Medica

Hours: 64

Tutor: Mary Allan

Descriptor:

The study of medicinal herbs within a materia medica context

Outcomes:

Individuals credited with the completion of this unit are able to describe not less than 80 and not more than 100 selected medicinal herbs. This description encompasses both traditional and contemporary understanding of the key therapeutic actions, indications, constituents, cautions, contraindications, dosages and toxicity of each medicinal herb; alongside nomenclature, habitat, morphology and preparation of indicated forms of delivery of the medicinal herb.

Content:

• The nomenclature and habitat of the selected medicinal herbs
• The key medicinal parts of the selected medicinal herbs
• The key actions of the selected medicinal herbs
• The indications of the selected medicinal herbs
• The key phytopharmacological constituents of the selected medicinal herbs
• The known cautions and contraindications of the selected medicinal herbs
• The dosage and degree of toxicity of the selected medicinal herbs
• The indicated forms of preparation for delivery of the selected medicinal herbs

Posology

Descriptor:

The study of the formulation, dosing and clinical dispensing of herbal medicines.

Outcomes:

Individuals credited with the completion of this unit are able to describe appropriate forms and dosages of herbal medicines, understand the issues associated with formulating incompatible herbs, and have knowledge of the formulation and dispensing of a herbal formula, the writing of a herbal prescription, the maintenance of patient records and a herbal medicines adverse reactions register.

Content:

• The method of choosing the appropriate form and dosage of a herbal medicine
• Issues associated with formulating herbal mixtures
• The process of formulating a herbal mixture
• Herbal medicine dispensing procedures
• The process of writing a herbal prescription
• The process of record keeping of patient herbal formulation prescriptions
• The role of the medicinal herb adverse reactions register

Herbal Medicine 1B

Botany

Hours: 16

Tutor: Mary Allan

Descriptor:

The study of plants from a botanical basis

Outcomes:

Individuals credited with the completion of this unit are able to describe and identify medicinal plants according to established systems of nomenclature and morphology and recognise the life cycle of herbal plants.

Content:

• The plant kingdom
• Medicinal herb distribution within the plant kingdom
• Plant identification systems, plant morphology, plant life cycle

Herb Growing

Hours: 16

Tutors : Geoff and Jan Speeden

Descriptor:

The study of the growing of herbal plants

Outcomes:

Individuals credited with the completion of this unit are able to describe the principles and practice of herbal medicine cultivation and demonstrate competency in the planting, growing, harvesting, drying and storage of medicinal herbs.

Content:

• Herbal medicine cultivation
• Herbal medicine harvesting
• Herbal medicine drying
• Herbal medicine storage

Manufacturing and Dispensing

Hours: 32

Tutors: Geoff and Jan Speeden

Descriptor:

The study of the manufacture and dispensing of herbal products.

Outcomes:

Individuals credited with the completion of this unit are able to describe the manufacturing process of various low-toxicity, safe herbal medicine preparations and be competent in the manufacture and dispensing of those preparations.

Content:

• Herbal medicine product manufacture
• Herbal medicine product dispensing