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Materia Medica 1 (HERB 1220)
Total Credits:
3
Lecture Credits:
2
Lab Credits:
1
Description:
Materia Medica 1 is the first of a series of materia medica courses that align with studying medicinal plants throughout the growing season. In this course you develop a deep understanding of how holistic medicine systems choose plants for different body organ systems. You will also learn about herbs used to promote health of the nervous, digestive and muscular skeletal systems. During this course you will visit gardens and natural areas learning plant identification of plants commonly found and harvested in the fall. You will learn the plant energetics as it pertains to traditional medicine systems along with a contemporary understanding of key therapeutic actions, indications, contraindications, and dosages.
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, and Muscular/skeletal
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, and muscular/skeletal
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 into
READ 1300 or completion of
READ 0200 or
ESOL 0052