The Lessons are designed to provide practical, hands-on experience with each assignment designed to enrich your personal experience with the plant world.

Each lesson Provides:

• Directions and recipes on making herbal preparations
• A list of herbs to research
• Projects such as making an herbal first aid kit, designing an herb garden, or making your own herbarium and plant press.

Course Overview and Curriculum

Lesson one Curriculum

• How to determine good quality herbs.
• Where to get herbs/herbal products.
• Herbs and allopathic medicine.
• Herbal preparation: decoctions/infusions.
• Herbs for the nervous system.
• Herbal nervine formulas.
• General suggestions for a healthy nervous system.
• Health problems related to the nervous system.
• Materia medica for the nervous system.
• Wild plant identification: St. John's wort

Lesson Two Curriculum

• Beverage blends
• How to create beverage blends.
• Terminology used to describe herbs.
• Weights and measures charts
• Herbal Preparation
• Herbal oils
• Salves, ointments, and balms
• Solvents used in herbal preparations
• Herbal first aide: skin problems
• General suggestions for skin problems
• Skin problems and herbal treatments
• Herbal therapeutics: the liver
• The medicinal action of alterative
• Materia medica
• Liver imbalances
• Herbal treatments for liver imbalances
• Hayfever and allergies
• Wild plant identification

Lesson Three Curriculum

• Science versus art
• Herbal Preparation
• Tinctures
• Liniments
• Capsules
• Herbal Pills
• Herbal therapeutics: the respiratory system
• General guidelines
• Materia medica
• When to treat the respiratory system
• Favorite formulas for the respiratory system
• Programs to follow for respiratory infections
• Asthma/Hayfever/Allergies
• The fine art of drying, harvesting, and storing herbs
• When to harvest
• Drying your herbs
• Storage
• Introduction to Herb identification

Lesson Four Curriculum

• Herbs for children
• Which herbs are safe for children
• Materia medica
• How to determine dosage
• How to administer herbs
• General formulas
• Herbal remedies for children
• Recipes for children's products
• Major chemical constituents of herbs
• Herbal therapeutics: the urinary system
• Herbs for the urinary system
• Materia medica for the urinary system
• Healthy kidneys
• Common imbalances of the urinary system
• Basic aromatherapy
• Essential medicine
• Essential oils
• Aromatherapy charts
• Herbal Dreams
• Dream pillows
• Dream tea
• Dream balm
• Wild plant identification: Dandelion

Lesson Five Curriculum

• Herbal pet care
• General suggestions
• Materia medica
• Common health problems of animals
• Herbal preparations: Charmoon's 6th. chakra sauce
• The sciences of herbs
• Compresses and poultices
• Poultices
• Compresses
• How to make poultices and compresses
• The incredible plantain poultice
• Herbal stimulants
• How stimulation therapy works
• When to use herbal stimulants
• When not to use herbal stimulants
• Materia medica: herbal stimulants
• Examples of formulas
• Therapies using herbal stimulants
• Stevia and Guarana
• Natural cosmetics
• 5 Steps to perfect skin
• The recipes
• Beauty and the bath
• Home health care products
• Where to get containers and ingredients
• Making your herbal first aide kit
• Kitchen medicine
• Herbal remedies for radiation
• Survival tactics
• Nutritional antidotes
• Wild plant identification: chickweed

Lesson Six Curriculum

• General concerns of women
• Books on women's health
• Women's ceremony and ritual
• Herbs for the female reproductive system
• General guidelines for a healthy female system
• Specific treatments common health problems
• Pregnancy and childbirth
• Formulas for pregnancy
• Renewing the body after birth
• Recommended reading
• Menopause and croneship
• Signs of menopause
• General guidelines for menopause
• Specific treatments for menopause
• Estrogen replacement therapy
• Conclusion

Lesson Seven Curriculum

• Creating medicinal formulas
• Guidelines for creating medicinal blends
• Examples of formulation
• Exercises for you to do
• Herbs for winter health
• General guidelines for winter health
• Favorite winter time recipes
• Herbal remedies for winter health
• Herbal therapeutics for male health care
• General guidelines for male health care
• Materia medica for the male system
• Herbal tonics for the male system
• Specific male health problems
• Herbs and health care by J. Green
• Wild plant identification: Yellow dock

Lesson Eight Curriculum

• Herb gardening
• The basics of gardening
• Recommended reading on herb gardening
• Designing the herb garden
• The culinary garden
• Recipes from the culinary garden
• The medicinal garden
• The medicine wheel herb garden
• How I build my herb garden
• Zigzag to success J. Garden product directory
• Making your own herbarium and plant press
• Making a plant press
• Treatment of scabies and crab infestations
• Herbal preparation: vitamin and mineral formulas
• Herbal therapeutics: the digestive system
• Materia medica for the digestive system
• Imbalances of the digestive system and herbal treatments

Lesson Nine Curriculum

• Preventative health care
• Clinical mock up cases
• Prescription for health and happiness
• Pathways to health and healing by F. Davidson
• Purification and regeneration
• Transition: Ringing the changes
• Purification diet
• Acid/alkaline foods
• Sources of nutrition in herbs and food
• Good health and your skin
• Legal herbalism
• Legal herbalism by K. Collins
• How to handle an FDA or state inspection
• Legal aspects of herbal prescribing
• The question of "safe" and "unsafe" herbs
• Then toxicity hype by M. Blumenthal
• "Herbs are often more toxic than magical"
• Food for thought

Lesson Ten Curriculum

• Wild plant identification
• Eight steps to learning plant identification
• Wild food cooking
• Recipes
• Flower essences
• Flower essence preparation and usage
• Dosages/How to administer
• Rescue remedy
• Bach flower essences
• Where to obtain flower essences
• The immune system
• Autoimmunity
• The immune system and aging
• Herbs for the immune system
• Building a healthy immune system
• Materia medica for the immune system
• Resources for continuing your herbal studies
• Final Quiz