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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- 4 stars10.42%
- 3 stars0.57%
- 2 stars0.28%
- 1 star0.42%
TOP REVIEWS FROM HERBAL MEDICINE
It's really benefited for me to follow up in the future. I like to suggest elaborating this course by sharing future opportunities and more courses related to this course
Very good course and it suits for everyone who likes herbal medicine.The instructor and a presentation doing very well for a course.I really like it and will keep going on for my botanical approach.
this is really a great course especially for those who are really interested in natural practices , a number of botanicals have been introduce to my knowledge through this course.
This course was incredible helpful... the professor explained everything so great that I understood really good and I was able to start helping patients right away.
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