Expand your knowledge of natural remedies.
The Cengage Education Herbal Pharmacy course offers an overview of herbal medicine as well as herbal pharmacy. The course includes an introduction to the history and philosophy of herbal pharmacy and shows how herbal medicine can be used to treat disorders of, for example, the nervous system and the respiratory system. The herbal pharmacy component covers crude drug production and storage; herbal work practices; and all kinds of internal preparations, from mouthwashes to syrup.
On completion of your course:
Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Cengage Education Introduction to Herbal Pharmacy Certificate.
Key areas of learning:
- Understanding of herbal pharmacy requirements for: baths, bath oils, creams, dyes, fomentations, incenses, aromatherapy products, compresses, ointments, perfumes, pomanders, potpourri, poultices.
- Medicinal and domestic biochemic and bio-energetic remedies, cold extracts, cordials, decoctions, essences, herbal honeys, infusions, methaglyns, oxymel, powders, Spagyric Technique, succus, syrups and tinctures.
- Culinary plants, common herbal teas, medicinal preparations