Herbalism For Everyone - Professional Herbalism Course

Explore how everyday herbs support wellbeing and skin care, offering safe home remedies and immune-boosting options. Grow herbs at home—teas, syrups, salves, capsules—and learn about interactions with medicines.

Discover herbal energetics by grouping herbs into 12 categories based on warming, cooling, and neutral effects on energy production and metabolism, tissue moisture, and muscle tone.

Learn to assess safety of herbal remedies, noting possible side effects, interactions with prescription drugs, and patient-specific factors such as allergies, health conditions, pregnancy, and proper plant identification.

Explore the herbal safety scale, from nourishing herbs with safety rating 1 to heroic herbs with rating 5, and learn how tonic and stimulating herbs fit within their therapeutic ranges.

Discover nutrition herbs rich in minerals and vitamins, infused in hot water to yield nutritious, easily digestible teas and tonics, supporting daily nutrient intake with red clover and dandelion.

Nourishing tonics brew with plant material for hours, offering regenerative effects for long-term use, safety rating 2, minimal side effects; herbs include burdock, hawthorn, oat, raspberry leaf, red clover.

Explore water based herbal preparations, from infusions to decoctions, and learn how water extracts water soluble constituents to deliver plant chemicals for cellular use, with temperature effects.

Learn to make cold water infusions that extract acids, flavonoids, gums, minerals, polysaccharides, and volatile oils from herbs such as marshmallow root, using room temperature or refrigerated methods.

Master the hot water infusion to draw out vitamins and aromatic oils. Over time it extracts flavonoids, alkaloids, tannins, minerals from dried or fresh herbs such as ginger and mint.

Learn to make herbal infusions at home by preparing dried leaves, flowers, or fresh herbs, and steeping with hot or cold water according to times and ratio guidelines.

make a decoction by simmering roots, bark, and dried fruits for four to eight hours; crush with a mortar and pestle, use herb-to-liquid ratios, and refrigerate up to 48 hours.

Explore sweet herbal preparations made with honey, syrup, raw sugar, or glycerin to mask flavors and extend shelf life via natural preservation and two-stage extractions.

Explore different types of sweet-based herbal extractions, including two-stage processes with water, alcohol, or vinegar, and the use of honey, syrups, and glycerin as sweet bases and solvents.

Learn to make herb-infused organic honey with health benefits, including cough relief and antibiotic and antiseptic properties, suitable for children and adults, and shelf life for dried versus fresh herbs.

Make a rose and lavender herbal honey by infusing honey with dried or fresh herbs, strain and store; dose a spoonful daily and avoid honey for children under one.

Explore glycerin as a sweet, non-toxic carrier for herbs, with antifungal and antimicrobial benefits, and learn shelf-life rules: over 55 percent glycerin, and 7–14 days dried or 6–10 days fresh.

Learn to make a herbal glycerite with fresh catnip or dried sage, detailing the water-to-glycerin ratio, sterilization, a four-to-six week infusion, and filtration for storage.

Understand how alcohol-based herbal preparations work alongside water-based infusions, using fresh or dried herbs to form bases for wound washes and delicacies, require up to six weeks to macerate.

Explore how alcohol serves as a general solvent, extracting most constituents, preserving extracts, and enabling mixing with water or glycerin, while noting its limits with resins and mucus.

Explore herbal tinctures, concentrated extracts made by soaking plants in alcohol for weeks, with water-based preparations and additives like glycerin, vinegar, or sugar to enhance extraction and taste.

Start with a tincture dose and increase until results appear. Adults: 10–30 drops under the tongue, 15 minutes, optionally dilute; adjust for children and elderly (1–3 drops to start).

Explore soothing herbal liniments, topical external-use preparations often based on hazel extract or alcohol, enhanced by menthol or wintergreen for aroma and anti-inflammatory effects.

Learn to make a wonderful herbal tincture for internal use and a liniment for external use, using 55% alcohol for dried herbs and at least 75% for fresh herbs.

Discover how oil-based herbal preparations infuse carrier oils with oil-soluble constituents using carriers like coconut oil, sweet almond oil, olive oil, flaxseed oil, herb oil, and animal fats.

Explore how herbal oils deliver plant compounds and enable blends for massage, skin care, hair growth, and aromatherapy, using olive oil and other oils for beauty and care.

Learn to make a herbal infused oil using chopped or ground herbs, cover with oil, leave four to six weeks, strain for salves and lotions, store up to three years.

Explore how herbal salves blend infused oil and beeswax to deliver herbs to skin, trap volatile oils, and extend shelf life with vitamin E and oregano or rosemary essential oils.

Craft a jasmine and rose herbal salve from herbal infused oil and beeswax, using a double boiler, firmness tests, Vitamin E, essential oils, and proper packaging.

Discover four types of purple preparations and how to use herbs and plants in your wellness routine, embracing a return to nature and sustained wellness.