Digestive inflammation lies at the root of many modern gastrointestinal disorders, from reflux and gastritis to ulcers, IBS, and colitis. This advanced course presents a comprehensive natural medicine framework for understanding and addressing inflammatory digestive conditions at their source rather than suppressing symptoms.
Drawing on clinical herbalism, nutritional science, and traditional medicine systems, the class explores why digestive inflammation develops, how mucosal integrity is compromised, and why motility, microbial balance, and tissue repair are central to healing. Students are introduced to a wide range of therapeutic strategies, including demulcent herbs, cooling and anti-inflammatory botanicals, dietary interventions, and targeted lifestyle adjustments that calm irritation and support regeneration of the gut lining.
Rather than focusing on isolated diagnoses, the course emphasizes pattern recognition—helping learners understand how heat, dryness, stagnation, and impaired digestion manifest throughout the gastrointestinal tract. Practical guidance is offered for supporting both acute flare-ups and long-term digestive resilience.
This class is ideal for practitioners, students, and individuals seeking a deeper, clinically grounded approach to inflammatory digestive disorders.
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This in-depth course offers a systems-based approach to chronic digestive inflammation, examining why conditions such as heartburn, GERD, gastritis, ulcers, IBS, and inflammatory bowel disorders have become so prevalent. Instead of viewing these issues as separate diagnoses, the class frames them as related expressions of mucosal damage, impaired digestive function, and ongoing inflammatory stress.
Students learn how inflammation alters gut tissues, disrupts normal digestion, and contributes to pain, reflux, irregular elimination, and nutrient malabsorption. The course explores the role of stomach acid balance, gut motility, microbial ecology, and immune signaling in maintaining digestive health—and what happens when these systems break down.
A wide range of therapeutic tools is discussed, including soothing demulcent herbs, bitter and cooling botanicals, food-based interventions, and supportive nutrients that help calm irritation while encouraging tissue repair. Attention is also given to lifestyle factors such as stress, meal timing, food preparation, and dietary patterns that either aggravate or restore digestive balance.
Rather than offering rigid protocols, the course emphasizes adaptable strategies that can be tailored to individual presentation, sensitivity, and stage of healing. The result is a practical, nuanced framework for addressing digestive inflammation with clarity and confidence.
What you’ll learn
Why inflammatory digestive disorders develop and persist
How mucosal damage, motility, and gut ecology influence symptoms
The role of demulcent, cooling, and anti-inflammatory herbs
Food and lifestyle strategies that support gut repair
How to distinguish and manage different inflammatory gut patterns
This class is ideal for
Herbalists, Ayurvedic practitioners, and integrative clinicians
Students of holistic, functional, or natural medicine
Individuals managing chronic digestive inflammation
Wellness professionals supporting gut health and digestion
Anyone seeking alternatives to symptom-suppressive approaches
Get access to this class PLUS our entire Foundations Library (200+ classes!) for only $47/month. Members also get access to all new Foundations classes taught live every month!
