The Pacific School of Herbal Medicine offers community classes and a professional clinical training program in American herbal medicine based in Western physiology and anatomy, modern clinical use of plants, and the gentle traditions of simpling, wildcrafting, and folk medicine. All our teachers are experienced practitioners, wildcrafters and community health organizers.
We teach people about their environment and bodies, raise people's awareness of plants, and train practitioners to be physiologically literate, culturally competent and sensitive, and ecologically aware.
We teach people about their environment and bodies, raise people's awareness of plants, and train practitioners to be physiologically literate, culturally competent and sensitive, and ecologically aware.
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Teaching Staff: All our teachers are actively working as healthcare practitioners, as well as being experienced wildcrafters, and community health organizers. Our current teachers all have been practicing medicine for at least nineteen years. Our teachers, coming from diverse backgrounds, practicing and teaching in a variety of styles and modalities, are known in their fields for their ability to demonstrate, facilitate and inspire clinical excellence.Classes are never taught by practitioners with less than ten years of clinical work, nor are they ever taught by students.
Eighty-six percent of the students who have completed clinic are working as practitioners. Some combine herbal medicine with other alternative modalities such as massage, and acupuncture, many do herbal work in public health and community healthcare settings. Of the remaining fourteen percent some work making medicines, some work in herb stores, some I've lost touch with. Of those who've finished pre-clinic or Clinical Case Study two-thirds are in practice, and many of the other third are doing herb work in some way.
This seventeen session materia medica class covers 178 individual medicinal plants in detail. For each herb, the student will learn where to get it, how to evaluate its quality, basic pharmacology, physiologic actions, when to use it and when not to use it, dosage and preparations, diagnostics, as well as its application in disease, constitutional therapy, preventative medicine, and in supplementing other forms of medicine and healing.
Learn to identify and use many edible and medicinal plants that grow wild in the Bay Area. These herb walks introduce wildcrafting, plant lore, botanical pharmacology, and recipes for teas and wild foods. Learn the basics of holistic healing where nature is the classroom. These plant walks emphasize understanding the medicinal actions of plants through taste and smell, as well as through traditional and clinical indications.
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