Decoding Herbalism: Volume One

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Theory and History of Herbal Medicine

Created byJamie Givens

Last updated 10/2018

English

What you'll learn

Students will learn the different parts of the plant and how to harvest.
Students will learn 36 different ways to process a plant for medicinal benefits.
Students will learn 14 different professionals who use herbs.
Students will have an understanding of the history of biodynamic practices.
Students will learn the difference in how different herbal practices view the elements, and they will learn how the elements work in herbalism.
Students will learn the esoteric beginnings of herbalism.
Students will be able to distinguish between oral traditions, anthropology and the historical record of herbalism.
Students will learn how plants shaped human culture.
Students will learn when the written history of herbalism starts around the globe.
Students will learn about Peru, Mexico, ancient Sumer, Egypt, India and China's historic relationship to plant medicine.
Students will discover how plant medicine was exchanged on the trade routes.

Course content

3 sections • 40 lectures • 3h 2m total length

Introduction to Decoding Herbalism Volume One, Theory and History of Herbalism1:24
Decoding Herbalism, Volume One: Theory and History of Herbalism
A class to help provide you a roadmap to the herb department at the health food store.
Find out the differences between herbal products and professionals who use herbalism.
Learn the history of how plant medicine helped shape humans and their culture through herb use and trade.
Instructor Bio1:43
Instructor Bio
Learn about the instructor, Jamie Zoe Givens, and her history as an herbalist and healing artist.
Table of Contents1:59
Table of Contents
Brief introduction and discussion of the Workbook's Table of Contents.
Use the workbook for special exercises and notes.

Introduction to Herbal Medicine0:57
Introduction to Herbal Medicine
Learn the different parts of a plant used in herbalism.
Learn how to harvest or wildcraft a plant for herbal use.
Learn 36 different ways to make herbal remedies.
Learn the difference between 13 different health practitioners who use herbal remedies.
Parts of the Plant11:07
Learn the Medicinal Parts to a Plant
Roots
Stem or Trunk
Foliage
Flowers
Fruits
Seeds
Harvesting Plants2:40
Harvesting Plants
Garden Herbs
Wildcrafting
How the Plants are Processed Determines Medicinal Use1:24
How the Plants are Processed Determines Medicinal Use
Introduction of 36 different ways to process a plant for medicinal use.
Teas, Cold & Hot Infusions, Decoctions, Powders and Capsules4:41
Processing Plants
Class explains the difference between making an herb tea and making infusions.
Understand which herbs are used in decoctions.
Learn the different ways to use an herbal powder.
Learn what is inside an herbal capsule.
Extracts, Tinctures, Herbal Paste, Macerated Oil, Medicated Ghee7:59
Processing Plants
Learn the difference between an extraction and a tincture.
Learn how to make an herb paste.
Discover how to use sunlight to make macerated oils.
Understand why we make medicated ghee or the vegan replacement with coconut oil.
Plasters, Compresses, Poultices, Enemas, Baths, Scrubs6:38
Processing Plants
Discuss the difference between an herbal plaster an herbal compress and an herbal poultice.
Learn the cautions when making an herbal enema.
Discover the secret to making herbal baths.
Learn how you may add plant medicine to salt scrubs.
Masks, Essential Oils, Hydrosols, Juiced, Culinary, Homeopathic Remedies8:06
Processing Plants
Learn how to use an herbal mask.
Discover what makes an essential oil, and how hydrosols are part of the distillation process.
Discussion of using herbal medicine with juicing and culinary herbs.
Learn the difference between homeopathic medicine and regular herbal medicine.
Baked, Wine, Vinegar, Ointment, Salves, Lotions7:13
Processing Plants
Discover why some herbs need to be baked before use.
Learn the two types of herbal wines.
Learn how vinegar may be a substitute for alcohol in a tincture.
Understand the difference between ointments, salves and lotions.
Liniment, Flower Essences, Anointing Oils, Smoking Mixtures, Smudging, Steam13:38
Processing Plants
Discover liniments and when to use them.
Learn how to make flower essences and why we use them.
Discuss the use of anointing oils.
Learn the differences of smoking herbs, smudging with herbs and steam inhalation.
Wrap Up of Processing Plants0:39
Wrap Up of Processing Plants
Summary of processing plants, and introduction to the professionals who use herbal remedies.
What is an Herbalist?20:47
What is an Herbalist?
Learn what an herbalist does in their practices.
Learn the difference between Allopathic Medicine opposed to Homeopathic Medicine.
Learn how a Naturopath is considered a primary care provider.
Discuss Traditional Chinese Medicine and how it differs from Ayurvedic Practices.
What is an Herbalist?15:52
What is an Herbalist?
Learn about the different practitioners who use herbal medicine like aromatherapy and flower essences.
Discover why a Doctor of Chiropractic may recommend herbal remedies.
Learn how wiccan practices are different than medicinal herbalism.
Understand how modern shamanic practices use plant medicine.
Discussion of Indigenous practices.
Women's Health5:11
Women's Health
Discussion on herbal medicine for hormonal regulation.
Herbs may help alleviate cramping during menses.
Herbs can help women ready their body for pregnancy.
Herbal remedies may help with breast milk production.
Learn the difference between a Midwife and a Doula.
Rudolf Steiner1:45
Anthroposophy
Discover the roots of Biodynamic Farming and Rudolf Steiner.
The Elements5:07
The Elements
Discussion on the difference between herbal practices and the use of the elements.
Introduction to considering the elements in assessing conditions.
Elements may be associated with a compass direction.
Wrap Up of Herbal Professions1:50
Wrap Up of Herbal Professions
Summary of how herbal professionals assess imbalance in the body.
Reminder of how the herb is processed depends on who uses the remedy.
Explanation of why chefs who use herbs in cooking are not considered herbalists.

Introduction to the section: Plants Impact on Human Development3:02
Introduction to the Section
Discover how anthropology and history tell the story of herbal medicine and human development.
Discussion of how new information and forensic tests are changing the dates of human events.
Sustaining Herbal Knowledge3:07
Sustaining Herbal Knowledge
Discuss the oral tradition and wisdom keepers.
Understand the difference between prehistory and the historical record.
Learn how anthropology uses the fossils of bones and teeth to understand herbal use.
Esoteric Beginnings6:31
Esoteric Beginnings
Atlantis
Lemuria
Early Hominids and Hunter Gathering Society7:39
Early Hominids and Hunter Gatherer Society
Learn how fire and cooking food changed the shape of the hominid jaw.
Discussion about flower pollen found in Neanderthal grave sites.
First mortar and pestle found at archeological sites dates back 16,000 years.
Gobekli Tepe3:09
Gobekli Tepe
Dates go back to 12,000 BCE.
Most of archeological site remains buried.
So far, no discoveries of herbal preparations.
Thought to be the earliest temple site found to date.
Harappan Early Traditions1:47
Harappan Early Traditions
Earliest form of writing, but no one knows how to read it.
Dates back to 7,000 BCE.
Indus Valley culture spread over Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
Traded herbal medicine in established trade routes.
Sumer and Egypt4:05
Sumer and Egypt
Cuneiform tablets and hieroglyphics tell the story of herbal use and magic.
Sophisticated knowledge of how the body works.
First writings of herbalism on record.
Peru2:07
Peru
Caral People kept records with knotted cotton.
Domesticated local animals.
Herbal medicine intrinsic part of culture.
China and India3:49
China and India
Discuss the basis of all Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Discuss the first writings on Ayurveda, and how it is still the model for modern India.
Learn how these eastern herbal traditions are different.
Mexico and Central America1:39
Mexico and Central America
Learn how the production of rubber dates back to 1600 BCE.
Discussion of the different time periods of cultures.
Understand the advanced herbal knowledge of the Aztecs.
Greece and Rome3:10
Greece and Rome
Learn about the scientific approach of the Greeks.
Discussion of intellectual skepticism.
Understand how Roman trading brought herbal remedies from several locations.
The Bible3:26
The Bible
Recognise that herbal medicine in both Old Testament and New Testament.
The Silk Road1:55
The Silk Road
Discover how the silk road was based on prehistory trade routes.
Learn how commodities like dried herbal medicines were traded.
Consider how trading allowed for an exchange of ideas.
Europe4:57
Europe
Learn about the Spanish Inquisition and suppression of herbal knowledge.
Discuss how herbs were grown for ornamental purposes in gardens.
Consider how colonial trade routes included spices and herbs as trade goods.
North America2:21
North America
Learn about the indigenous cultures' advanced knowledge of herbal medicine.
Discover how some gathering sites were territorial based on the mother's ancestral line.
Consider the use of herbs for barter at Pow-Wows.
Summary1:14
Summary about the History of Herbal Medicine
End of History Section1:08
Celebrate
Pat yourself on the back for making it this far!!!
Bibliography1:39
Bibliography
Books used for the creation of this class.
Finale Decoding Herbalism Volume One1:25
Congratulations
Hey, you finished the class!
Bonus Section: Shamanic Conversations with the Elements3:19
Shamanic Conversations with the Elements
In this bonus section, I share the transcripts of shamanic journeys for a conversation with the elements. Read about each element's explanation of how it is only an aspect of the One.
Air
Fire
Water
Earth
Aether
Oneness of Everything

Requirements

This is an introductory course in the history and theory of herbalism.
All beginners in herbalism are welcome.
If you are interested in learning about herbal professions, here is where you start.
This class is for beginners who want to learn the differences in herbal products.

Description

Decoding Herbalism Volume One: Theory and History of Herbal Medicine

This class is for anyone interested in how plant medicine helped shape humans and human culture.

Learn 36 different ways plants can be processed into herbal medicine.
Discover 14 different professions that use herbal medicine in their practice.
Uncover the past history from paleolithic to the neolithic to modern day herbalism.

This class is for anyone who needs a roadmap to the herb department at the health food store.

Learn the difference between flower essences and essential oils.
Find out the difference between a tea and an herbal infusion.
Discover the difference between an extract and a tincture.

This class is for people who are interested in learning the different herbal traditions.

Discuss the opposing views on the elements in herbal medicine.
Learn which traditions came first and lasted the longest.
Find out the difference between Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda.

This class is for people interested in uncovering our past.

Discover how herbal diets shaped hominid jawlines.
Read about the traditions of Atlantis and Lemuria.
Learn how the Silk Road influenced the spread of herbal medicine.

Who this course is for:

People who are interested in learning about the different medicinal parts to the plants should take this course.
People who are interested in learning about the different ways herbal medicine is processed should take this class.
If you are interested in learning about the different professionals who handle herbal medicine, this is the course for you.
You should take this course if you are interested in learning how herbalism shaped human development throughout history.

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