How to Use Your Manual

Your Herbalist Training Manual will teach you about medicinal plants, how they can be used for healing and much more. This course also contains many opportunities for self-inquiry through writing prompts, templates, and other resources to guide your journey along the way.

The following sections have been laid out seamlessly as Units that break down into Lessons. Each Unit unfolds into the next and is designed to give you foundational, clinical knowledge as it pertains to herbal medicine, as well as a high-level view of what your herbal career can look like. This course focuses on understanding how the body aims to heal itself, on medicinal plant profiles (we call these monographs), how to use a functional medicine approach to detect underlying causes of dis-ease, and more.

Whether or not you already have some working knowledge of herbs, the fact that you’re reading this right now makes you a badass, seriously. It means you've decided to answer the call to explore the magical world of herbalism, as overwhelming as that may feel at times. Herbal Alchemy is a unique and pivotal program for the novice or the experienced health practitioner. f you are an existing health professional, yoga instructor, chiropractor, massage therapist, doctor, etc., the information in this book will bolster your existing knowledge and allow you the opportunity to let herbs be your ally for everyday use.

Finally, my hope for you is that this book will become a staple that you reference time and time again in your quest for healing through herbalism.