This 24-contact hour course will give students hands-on skills in person for women’s herbal health to include: foundation assessment skills, case study evaluations, understanding lab work, a focused materia medica and medicine making several formulas that are specific to women’s care.
Pre-Requisites: None. Maiden, Mother, Crone is recommended but not required.
This course will cover:
1. Learn accurate use of a list equipment needed for basic physical assessment. Blood pressure cuff and Stethoscope, otoscope/ophthamaloscope, eye chart, percussion hammer, infrared thermometer, adult scale, penlight.
2. Demonstrate a set of skills of Physical Assessment for the Herbalist (taking blood pressure, pulse, temperature, taking a history, observational skills practice)
3. Recognize the basic, common herbs used for Women’s Health Issues – a focused materia medica for this workshop.
4. Demonstrate how to use physical assessment and history and a corresponding materia medica to formulate a more individualized formula.
5. Evaluate a case to determine if physical assessment is needed and to what extent.
6. Prepare an appropriate herbal formula based on client’s descriptions of their issues, by physical assessment, asking questions regarding their history, and based by what herbs available.
7. Use a physical assessment as a baseline and later as an evaluation tool for determining changes in conditions.
8. Understand lab results and how they impact the health of your clients. Also learn how to independently order your own lab studies.
*Note: We will not be doing any internal exams. All assessments will be done fully clothed. Participants are encouraged to wear light and loose clothing for skills of physical assessment can be performed: inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation. (olfaction will not be covered in this course).
**Students are encouraged to bring their own set of equipment. Students are required to bring their own examination gloves. Basic assessment kits will be available for sale and can be ordered in advance.
***A basic equipment list will go out prior to the course for students who want to bring their own supplies. This course is open to all levels of herbalism, has no pre-requisites, and has 15 open spots!
