Introduction to Herbal Pharmacy

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
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Course Number A0099
Course Type Correspondence
Course Duration Max 18 months
Study Hours Approx 300 hrs
Qualification Cengage Certificate

Prerequisites

No previous knowledge or experience is required to take this course.

Learning periods

This course is divided into 4 learning periods.

Assessment details

  • 4 written assessment
  • 3 multiple choice assessments

Computer requirements

To complete this course you will need access to:

  • DVD player

Internet access may be required for research in some learning activities.

Extra learning materials included

  • Holistic Herbal-textbook
  • Green Pharmacy-textbook
  • Materia Medica-manual
  • Herbal Preparations-manual
  • Herbal Manufacturing-DVD
  • Principles & Practices of Phytotherapy-textbook

Subjects You’ll Cover

Introduction to manufacturing, reference books and websites:

  • Herbal pharmacopoeias
  • Dispensatories and Materia Medica
  • Australian herbal manufacturing guidelines
  • Processing and preparing plant-based drugs

Crude drug production and storage:

  • Crude drug production
  • Plant growth environment

Quality control for crude production and processed plant drugs:

  • Quality control
  • Quality control of herbal medicine
  • WHO guidelines
  • Basic shipment and import requirements for plant material
  • Analysis of plant material
  • Identification of botanical materials
  • Instrumental analysis of plant extracts
  • Adulteration and contaminants
  • Contamination
  • Toxicological evaluation

Basic processing: Solvents, base products and essential oils

  • Theory of extraction
  • Communication
  • Expressing
  • Filtration
  • Maceration
  • Percolations
  • Emulsification
  • Properties of solvents
  • Base products Essential oils

Herbal manufacturing work practices: Obtaining an alcohol excise licence; calculating Menstruum:

  • Equipment
  • Products
  • Obtaining an alcohol licence
  • Record keeping
  • Labelling
  • Ratio
  • Strength
  • Weight and volume
  • Calculating Menstruums

Internal alcohol preparations – tinctures, fluid extracts, fresh plant tinctures, Succi, wines, essences:

  • Tinctures, Fluid Extracts & Fresh Plant Tinctures
  • Manufacture
  • Wines
  • Succi
  • Essences

Sweet internal preparations – elixirs, glycetrate, mel, oxmel, syrup:

  • Elixirs
  • Glycetract
  • Mel
  • Oxymel
  • Syrup

Other internal preparations, enemas, inhalations, mouthwashes, gargles and vinegars:

  • Enemas
  • Inhalation
  • Mouthwashes and gargles
  • Vinegars

Internal dry preparations: Capsules, pills and tablets; dusting powders; insufflations; smokes; suppositories and pessaries:

  • Capsules
  • Pills
  • Tablets
  • Dusting powders
  • Insufflations
  • Smokes
  • Suppositories and pessaries
  • Internal sweet preparations – confections, lozenges

External Preparations – bath, douche, lotion, liniment:

  • Bath
  • Douche
  • Lotion
  • Liniment
  • Compress
  • Plaster
  • Poultice
  • Manufacture

Homoeopathic preparations; Spagyric preparations