Herbal Courses
UNIT GUIDE
Unit Title and Code : Internal Herbal Preparations
Unit Duration : 20 hours in external study, assignments and home study.
Core or Elective Unit: Core Unit
Mode of Delivery External studies delivered with a combination of texts, workbooks, written assignments and an online final written assessment and final written assessments
Unit Objectives The objectives of this unit is to provide an understanding of the principles and processes required in the formulation of internal manufacturing herbal preparations. The main focus in this unit is practical applications in external herb preparations
Course Content:
- To have an understanding of the theory of extraction and herb processing
- To have an understanding of herb harvesting, drying and wildcrafting
- To have an understanding as to the materials and equipment required for external herbal preparations
- To understand the manufacturing process for infusions and decoctions
- To have an understanding of labelling your herbal extracts and products
- To have an understanding of alcohol herbal extracts
- To prepare and manufacture a wide range of internal herbal preparations
- To have an understanding of the labelling of herbal preparations
- To create and manufacture tinctures, fluid extracts, percolations, gargles, glycetracts, oxymels, lozenges, syrups, pills, powders, capsules, succi, pessaries, suppositories, douches and soaks
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Learning Outcome 1 To understand herbal harvesting, drying and wildcrafting |
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Learning Outcome 2 To understand the theory of extraction and processing |
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Learning Outcome 3 To highlight the requirements to labelling herbal preparations |
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Learning Outcome 4 To have an understanding of water and Alcohol extracts |
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Learning Outcome 5 To create and formulate herbal gargles |
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Learning Outcome 6 To create and formulate glycetracts and oxymels |
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Learning Outcome 7 To understand how to formulate lozenges and syrups |
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Learning Outcome 8 To understand how to formulate and make pills powders and capsules |
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Learning Outcome 9 To understand how to formulate and make succi, pessaries and suppositories |
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Lecture Plan:
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Lecture Content |
Recommended Reading |
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Herb harvesting, wildcrafting, herb drying. Herb processing. Herb extractions and chemical constituent review. Making infusions and decoctions Labelling your herbal extracts |
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Alcohol Extracts, Tinctures, Alcohol |
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Green Tinctures and Fluid Extracts |
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Percolation, Gargles |
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Break |
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Glycetracts, oxymels |
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Lozenges and Syrups |
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Powders, pills and capsules |
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Succi, Pessaries and suppositories |
Resources and Texts
Recommended Texts for this unit:
Adams, J & Tan, E. 1999 – Herbal Manufacturing. How to make medicines from plants. Northern Melbourne institute of TAFE printers, Preston. ISBN 0 9577454 00
Green J. 2000 – The Herbal Medicine-Makers Handbook, A home manual. The Crossing Press, California USA
Relevant texts or journals, paper based material or DVD s.
Chevellier A. 2001 – Encyclopaedia of Medicinal Plants . Dorling Kindersley
Fisher C. & Painter G. – 1996 – Materia Medica of Western Herbs for the Southern Hemisphere
Hoffman D.– The Holistic Herbal– Element Press
Shippard I. 2003 – How can I use herbs in my daily life? David Stewart
CRELLIN, J. K., and Philpott, J., 1990. Herbal Medicine Past and Present: Volume I, Trying to Give Ease. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
Matthew Wood, Master of Science Degree (Herbal Medicine) 2006 Scottish School of Herbal Medicine
The Energetics of Western Herbs by Peter Holmes (1997).
A key to Galen’s Method of Physic” (Culpeper, 1990, 376
Bremness L (2009), The Essential Herbs Handbook, Duncan Baird Publishers
Weiss and Weiss, 1992, 35
Roger French – The man who lives in three centuries – Natural Health Society of Australia, 2002
Alan Moyle – Nature Cure Explained Health for All Publishing, London 1950
Dr H.C.A. Vogel – The Nature Doctor – Bookman Press 1995
S. Mills and K. Bone – Principles and practice of Phytotherapy,2000 Churchill Livingstone
Hoffman D. CD Rom The Herbalist. 2000
Kee Chang Huang. The Pharmacology of Chinese herbs, CRC Press, 2nd ed. New York, 1996
Reid D. Chinese Herbal Medicine, CFW Publications Ltd, Hong Kong, 1987
Svoboda Dr R. Ayurveyda For Women, David and Charles Book. 1999
http;//niam.com/corp~web/mediplnt.htm
Andrews E. The Aboriginal Physicians of Michigan, Contributions to Medical Research, 45.
Lassak E. & McCarthy T. Australian Medicinal Plants. Methuen Australia, 1983
Low T. Bush medicine – A Pharmacopeia of Natural Remedies, Angnus and Robertson Publishers, NSW Australia, 1999
Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 99. CD Rom
Wilder A. The History of medicine, Maine Farmer Publications, Maine, 1904
S. Garland, The Complete Book of Herbs and Spices. 1979.
Adams J. & Tan E. Herbal Manufacturing, Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE Printers, 1999
Alternative Medicine," Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia 99. © 1993-1998 Microsoft Corporation.
http://www.health.gov.au/tga/
