24-Hour Wilderness Herbal First Aid Certification on-site in Redlands, CA. The course will be taught by Sam & Suchil Coffman.
This is a 24 hour course taught over 3 days (8 hours per day) and includes both a conventional 16-Hour Wilderness First Aid (WFA) Certification through Herbal Medics Academy as well as more than 8 hours of herbal first aid training.
Herbal First Aid information is integrated into the curriculum every day in order to create a holistic model of remote or post-disaster care that emphasizes the essentials of first aid care while also introducing fundamental plant-medicine concepts that apply to austere or post-disaster environments.
The tuition for this course includes:
Herbal Medic, 2nd edition, 2021, Storey Publishing
24-Hour WFA certification subjects include:
- Field expedient methods for moving a victim
- Diagnosing and treating a wide variety of trauma and life threatening situations
- Splinting & bandaging plus ankle and knee stabilization for walking
- Primary and secondary survey
- High altitude injuries, heat and cold injuries
- Disease and infection
- Snake and insect bites & stings
- Shock
- Head injuries
- Herbal First Aid subjects include:
- Fundamental herbal care concepts
- The necessary shift in thinking
- Wound Care and Infection Management using herbs
- Injury, shock, pain and herbs
- Respiratory herbal first response
- Gastrointestinal herbal first response
- Urinary herbal first response
- Planning, preparing and administering herbs
Hands-on training and practice is emphasized very strongly throughout this 3-day intensive.
The certification testing for certification is both hands-on (done as teams) and a written test.
Wilderness first aid certification is provided by Herbal Medics Academy. An HMA certification card is issued which is valid for 2 years.
