Distance Learning Course Survey

We are progressing toward a Fall release of our first Distance Learning courses, and we'd like your feedback. We want to know which course(s) you are interested in. Please look over the four courses below, and, if interested, reply to the associated email addresses.

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Paul Bergner
Director
North American Institute of Medical Herbalism, Inc.

The Adverse Effects of Common Herbs

This six-lesson course covers the potential adverse effects of fifty common herbal medicines. It includes an introduction to adverse effects and to drug-herb interactions, an overview of the millieu of drug-related iatrogenic injury as background to the problem of drug-herb interactions, and interview and research techniques to avoid problematic interactions. This course is unique in that it includes complete information from science, but also from traditional literature, from evaluated contemporary reports at the medherb.com adverse effects reporting site, and hundreds of reports gathered during 30 years of clinical experience by herbalist and course-author Paul Bergner, and 15 years of student and practitioner reports during his teaching career. This course is geared for intermediate and advanced herbal students, but could be appreciated by the allied health professional. Anticipated release: Fall 2004

If interested please send your contact information to dl-adverse@...

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First Course in Medical Herbalism

This course introduces the student to the routines that will develop skills as an herbalist, including reading, experimenting with the herbs personally, and giving them to others. Twelve of the most important herbs in contemporary herbalism are covered, with an emphasis on herbal actions on the human body, preparation methods, and safety considerations. Divided into six lessons. Course materials include two 90-minute lecture tapes, a course outline, and a course text written by Paul Bergner. This is a beginning course. Anticipated release: Fall 2004

If interested please send your contact information to dl-first-course@...

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The Vitalist Treatment of Acute Symptoms

This 12-lesson course covers the use of non-suppressive herbal, nutritional, and other treatments. Each lesson covers the relevant physiology, pathology, nutrition, pharmacology, herbal actions, and vitalist and constitutional considerations for the symptoms discussed. Class topics include:

1. Upper, Middle, and Lower Gastrointestinal Tract Conditions
2. Blood purifiers, alteratives, the Bad Blood Symdrome, and the Skin
3. External and internal treatments for the skin
4. Wounds, burns, and chronic ulcers
5. Catarrh, chronic mucous, and lymphatic conditions
6. Fever
7. Coughs, Eyes, and Ears
8. Fatigue, Depression, Anxiety, Insomnia
9. Pain
10. Bladder and Kidney
11. Menses
12. Pregnancy and breast health

This is an intermediate level course in 12 lessons with 24 hours of lecture tape and a text written by Paul Bergner Anticipated release: Fall 2004

If interested please send your contact information to mailto:dl-acute-therapeutics@...

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Insulin Resistance: Pathophysiology and Natural Therapeutics

nsulin resistance is the fundamental underlying pathology to our most common chronic diseases, including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and some common cancers. This seminar covers all
relevant clinical considerations of this syndrome, in 10 classes.

1. The Pathophysiologyof Insulin Resistance
2. Chronic Stress and Insulin Resistance
3. Insulin Resistance and the Pathophysiology of Sleep Debt
4. Exercise and Insulin Resistance: Growth Hormone Effects
5. Diabetes Types I and II
6. Natural Therapeutics for Insulin Resistance, Obesity, and Diabetes

This is an intermediate-advanced level course in 10 lessons with 20 hours of lecture tape and a text written by Paul Bergner. Anticipated release: Fall 2004

If interested please send your contact information to mailto:dl-insulin-resistance@...

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