Western Herbs for Ayurvedic Practitioners Course

Description

Are you a well-educated Ayurvedic practitioner who uses Ayurvedic herbs, but would like to extend your skill set to include Western herbs?

These days, most Ayurvedic students learn at least a little about Ayurvedic herbs in Ayurveda school. What they don’t learn, though, is anything about Western herbs. Now, herbs do not care which country they grow in, and they don’t wear nametags. There is nothing special about an herb that grew in Indian soil. Herbs from North and South America and Europe work just as well, and they can be used in an Ayurvedic way.

Let’s face it, Western herbs are a lot more common out there in the street in America, and your clients are already using and studying Western herbs. You need to know about them. If you learned Ayurvedic principles for using herbs, you can easily transfer that skill to Western herbs in your life and practice.

Over the course of one academic term, we will deeply discuss the similarities and differences between Western and Ayurvedic style herbalism, and how to connect that knowledge you already have with effective Western herbs in your clinic or practice.

We’ll talk about tinctures, common in Western herbalism, but unknown in Ayurveda. We’ll dig into comparing Ayurvedic preparations, such as custom-mixed powders versus capsules. We’ll help solve your problems and answer your long-held questions, and we’ll talk a lot about the different views on dose between the two systems.

If you are ready to take your herbal knowledge to the next level, and use all those unfamiliar herbs your clients are bringing in, let’s get together and spend some time in the realm of Western herbs for Ayurvedic practitioners.

Summary of Topics We’ll Cover in this 12 Lesson Course:

• History of Wester Herbalism Related to Ayurveda
• History of Western Energetics
• History of Ayurvedic Herbalism
• Using Herbs in Energetic Way
• Overlap of Ayurvedic and Western Uses for Herbs
• Ayurvedic Concepts Translated into Western Herbalism
• Ayurveda Anatomy and Samprapti and Use of Western Herbs
• Preparations Used in Western Herbalism and Comparison to Ayurveda
• Doses Used in Western Herbalism and Comparison to Ayurveda
• Culinary Uses in Western Herbs Comparison to Ayurveda
• Western Substitutes for Common Ayurvedic Herbs
• Plant Chemistry of Selected Western Herbs

We’ll Cover Ten Body Systems and Pathology Treated with Western Herbs:

• Digestive
• Cardiovascular
• Respiratory
• Nerve and Eye
• Urinary
• Immune
• Endocrine
• Musculoskeletal
• Reproductive\Skin
• Young and Elderly

Materia Medica

• Approximately 100 western herbs of use to Ayurvedic practitioners, with formulation comparisons of Ayurveda and Western herbalism.

12 lessons with each lesson being 3 hours in length.