Next Chinese Herbal Studies class begins June, 2011.

The Chinese Herbal Studies program at the Academy offers students the unique opportunity to add a powerful, ancient, and highly effective treatment modality to their healing repertoire. Chinese herbal medicine is a wonderful complement to the practice of Five Element acupuncture, enhancing the practitioner’s ability to treat patients on all levels of the body, mind, and spirit. The Academy’s program in Chinese Herbal Studies is optional, although most students choose to study both herbs and acupuncture in order to effectively integrate the Eight Principles and the Five Elements in treatment.

The study of Chinese herbal medicine provides our graduates with the language and framework to interact with practitioners of other Oriental medicine traditions. This program begins with an exploration of the time-honored foundation common to all Chinese herbal studies, the Eight-Principle Zang/Fu diagnosis and treatment models.

Building on this foundation, students will learn: 

• Preparation methods and various forms of herbal treatments
• The most common formulas and single herbs, (including their actions, indications, and contraindications)
• How to perform an herbal intake and move through the clinical thought process and pattern differentiation to an herbal recommendation
• How to modify formulas to meet the specific needs of patients
• How to prepare formulas from loose herbs
• Patient management skills, and
• To recognize and understand Western medical diagnostic disease labels from a Chinese medical perspective

HERBS PROGRAM HOURS SUMMARY   HERBS PROGRAM ADMISSIONS