There is strong demand for alternatives to pharmaceuticals for a variety of common illnesses due to concerns of safety, efficacy, and a desire for more “natural” products. Despite this growing interest, “conventional” healthcare providers may have little to no knowledge about herbal medicines, which is further compounded by the sometimes misleading information in the media and on the internet. This course provides the necessary background for providers to begin to incorporate herbal medicines into their practice, particularly in regards to their therapeutic properties, efficacy (or lack thereof), and safety concerns, including quality control and potential adverse effects.
This course is part of the Integrative Health and Medicine Specialization
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Practicing healthcare professional or healthcare student, but anyone can benefit from this course for personal use.
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Discuss the role of herbal medicines in healthcare overall as well as your potential role.
Discuss overall botanical actions and methods for creating botanical preparations.
Assess patients, including potential for herb-drug interactions and other potential contraindications and considerations for special populations.
Educate patients on quality control and safety issues.
Skills you will gain
- herbal preparations
- integrative care
- symptom management
- botanical safety
- evidence-based practice
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Herbal Medicines in Healthcare
Using Botanicals Safely
How Do Botanical Medicines Work?
Botanical Medicines for Mental Wellbeing, Women's Health, and Musculoskeletal Pain
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- 5 stars88.06%
- 4 stars10.39%
- 3 stars0.70%
- 2 stars0.28%
- 1 star0.56%
TOP REVIEWS FROM HERBAL MEDICINE
Highly recommended! The teacher was amazing. Each class was well explained.
Wish she opens other courses related to botanicals. Thank you for the great opportunity.
Very informative course related to botanicals. For the past 6 week i have learned many botanicals and its uses. I have gained knowledge on the treatment and the dosge to be used.
I always wanted to learn botanicals for medical use unfortunately I didn't know how and where to start but finally, I found it!! This course is an excellent resource to start learning botanicals.
This was an amazing course . I have learnt a lot of things that I can use in my daily life . This course was very informative and assignments were very interesting.
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