Herbal Remedies Intensive
ENROLLMENT OPEN
What is a solvent?
When making herbal remedies, the solvent is the raw liquid or semi solid chosen to extract the healing elements, or constituents, from your herb.
In this course, we will be exploring the most common solvents used to make herbal remedies: water, oil, vinegar, alcohol, and glycerin (plus a few honorable mentions).
What is a constituent?
Each medicinal herb is loaded with phytochemistry: small but mighty molecules that contribute to the healing potential of the plant (or fungus).
Learn some of the most common herbal constituents - polysaccharides, tannins, saponins, and carotenoids, to name a few - and how to choose the best solvent to create the most potent remedies.
Break it Down
This 4 week course will introduce you to a new solvent each week. You will learn both folk and mathematical extraction techniques, commonly used herbs and fungi to add to your home apothecary, plus bonus material on harvesting and storing your herbs.
Learning modules will be a combination of slide presentations, instructor commentary, and follow-along videos.
Herb Nerd
You will be guided through this introductory herbal remedies course by Herb Nerd's founder Colleen. She has been geeking out on Herbalism & handcrafting herbal remedies since 2010. Her experience stems from years of product development for her herbal skin care line Poppy Botanicals, and from her time as Lab/Apothecary manager at The California School of Herbal Studies where she is now one of the primary herbal remedies instructors in the Handcrafted Herbalism program.
5 SOLVENTS
7 + LEARNING MODULES PER SOLVENT
16 + HERBS IN-DEPTH
8 + HOURS OF VIDEO CONTENT
This course is alive! Enroll now and have lifetime access to content that will be continually evolving with herbal industry standards for years to come!
- 12 + Follow along videos
- Traditional Herbal Recipes Galore
- Phytochemistry Solubility
- Herbal Science + Artistry
- Access to Community Forum
- Lifetime access to course curriculum
- Certificate of Completion
Course Features
Meet your herbal allies
No herbal course is complete without meeting some key herbs. You'll discover the unique qualities of some commonly used herbs, and how to best extract them for their healing benefits.
Four 90 minute learning modules
Complete with instructor commentary, slides, and live videos, you'll enjoy moving through the course material at your own pace.
Community Forum
All Herbal Remedies Intensive students are invited to join our community forum. Connect with your fellow herbal enthusiasts (aka Herb Nerds)! This forum is a place to share, ask questions, and continue learning for years to come.
Discover a new solvent each week
- week 1: water & tea
- week 2: vinegar & acetums
- week 3: oil & infused oil
- week 4: alcohol & tincture/glycerite
Downloadable handouts
Each new remedy will come with a pdf handout for you to download and start building your Herbal Remedies folder to reference time & time again.
Fun follow along videos
Over 20 fun follow along videos guiding on the step by step process for making tons of traditional herbal remedies.
Individual herb monographs
An herbal monograph is a body of text and images that describes an individual herb in depth: common and scientific names, growing patterns and regions, harvesting techniques, traditional uses, modern research, dosing, and much more. Each herbal remedy you create will focus on a new herb, and will come with a coplete mnograph on that herb.
Optional supply box
Making your herbal remedies just got even easier! By purchasing a supply box you will receive all of the herbs, solvents (except alcohol), jars, labels, and pressing cloths that are covered throughout the course.
*supply boxes are only available to students living in the continental United States.
Tons of bonus content!
Stretch your remedies to the limit, learning how to incorporate them into other, more complex, herbal remedies.
Course Syllabus
WEEK 1 | WATER
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the universal solvent
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tea 4 ways
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hydrophilic herbal constituents + polar molecules
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folk preparations
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beyond tea: syrups, gummies, gels & more
WEEK 2 | VINEGAR
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water vs vinegar
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all things apple vinegar
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acidity, pH, and the skin
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applications for herbal vinegars
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shrubs & switchels
WEEK 3 | OIL
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carrier oils & their virtues
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ratio based preparations
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fresh vs dry macerations, tips & tricks for stability
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non-polar molecules & resin extraction
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unlocking the versatility of infused oils in topical formulations
WEEK 4 | ALCOHOL & GLYCERIN
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mathematical preparations & using percentages to get the most potent extracts
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alcohol soluble constituents & their actions
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maceration techniques for strengthening potency
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simple extracts vs compounds & building a formula
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dosage