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Materia Medica (HERB 1220)
Total Credits:
3
Lecture Credits:
2
Lab Credits:
1
Description:
This course provides a comprehensive approach to Materia Medica focusing on 25 commonly used herbs. You will receive detailed information about the plants, encompassing both traditional and contemporary understanding of the key therapeutic actions, indications, constituents, cautions, contraindications, dosages and toxicity of each medicinal herb; alongside nomenclature, habitat, morphology and preparation of indicated forms of delivery of the medicinal herb. You will attend field trips to local natural areas to identify plants. You will be introduced to how herbal medicines work to promote health in the organ systems of the body, including the respiratory, digestive, and nervous systems.
Topical Outline:
1. Basic Chemistry as it pertains to plant medicines
2. Materia Medica of 25 plants
3. Herbs for Organ systems including the Nervous, Digestive, Muscular/skeletal and Respiratory systems
4. Traditional and specific indications for choosing herbal remedies
5. Plant Identification in the field
Learning Outcomes:
1. Design herbal treatments for organ systems; nervous, digestive, muscular/skeletal and respiratory
2. Critically review literature pertaining to traditional and modern uses of plant medicines
3. Construct treatment protocols and expected outcomes of use for 10 medicinal plants
4. Identify key therapeutic actions, indications, constituents, cautions, contraindications, dosages and toxicity of 25 medicinal herbs
Prerequisites:
Placement score into
READ 1300 or completion of
READ 0200 or
ESOL 0052