- Introduction and Guidelines for Treating Pain 42min
- Migraines and other Headaches 1h 16min
- Nonspecific Pain 1h 08min
- Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat 1h 08min
- Nerve Pain 37min
- Muscle, Tendon, Bone, and Trauma-Related Pain 1h 00min
- Skin Pain 36min
- Chest and Lung Pain 22min
- Pelvic and Uterine Pain 20min
- Digestive and Biliary Organ Pain 25min
- Urinary Passage Pain 18min
- Vascular Pain 24min
- Materia Medica 3h 57min
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Description
This course is a continuation of the Creating Herbal Formulas online course series with Dr. Jillian Stansbury. This course series roughly follows Dr. Stansbury’s Herbal Formularies for Health Professionals book series, which is a compilation of her 30+ years of practice and experience in using botanical medicine in clinical practice!
Dr. Stansbury is a wealth of botanical and naturopathic knowledge and wisdom. She has a unique way of blending scientific research, folkloric understanding, and clinical application into one cohesive learning experience! Dr. Stansbury’s brain is like an encyclopedia, yet she has the ability to make her knowledge readily accessible to her students.
This course, Creating Herbal Formulas: Headaches and Pain covers strong herbal anodynes for common painful conditions. Dr. Stansbury offers example herbal formulations and provides an extensive materia medica review of several dozen herbs explaining their exact action with respects to treating pain.
Headaches and Pain: Formulas for Specific Systems (8 hours 30 mins)
Dr. Stansbury explains the pathophysiology of pain and overviews modern research on molecular constituents and mechanisms of actions for each herb presented.
Ever wondered why ergot alkaloid herbs are so effective for treating headaches? Or what the role of TRP channels are in analgesia and how we can decrease the pain response of these channels with specific herbs? Dr. Stansbury will overview these questions and more as she covers herbal actions and herbal affinities to various organs and body systems.
She offers formulas for specific conditions organized by each system, including:
- Headaches
- Nonspecific pain
- EENT
- Nerves
- Musculoskeletal
- Skin
- Chest and lung
- Pelvic
- Digestive
- Urinary
- Vascular
Headaches and Pain: Materia Medica (4 hours)
In this portion of the course, Dr. Stansbury covers anodyne herbs, their applications, benefits, and other clinical pearls that she has learned over the years, including:
- Achillea millefolium (Yarrow)
- Aconitum napellus (Aconite)
- Acorus calamus (Sweet Flag)
- Actaea racemosa (Black Cohosh)
- Aesculus hippocastanum (Horse Chestnut)
- Agrimonia eupatoria (Agrimony)
- Aloe vera (Aloe)
- Celastrus aculeatus (Celastrus)
- Curcuma longa (Turmeric)
- Eupatorium perfoliatum (Boneset)
- Hammamelis virginiana (Witch Hazel)
- Harpagphytum procumbens (Devil’s Claw)
- Lobelia Inflata (Wild Tobacco)
- Mitragyna speciosa (Kratom)
- Mormordica charantia (Bitter Melon)
- Ocimum tenuiflorum (Holy Basil)
- Phytolacca americana (Poke)
- Piper methysticum (Kava Kava)
- Rehmannia glutinosa (Chinese Foxglove)
- Ricinus communis (Castor)
- Rubia cordifolia (Madder)
- Scutellaria baicalensis (Scute)
- Syzygium aromaticum (Clove)
And much, much more!
What You’ll Learn
- Palliating Pain versus suppression of Pain
- General Approaches to Treating Pain
- Creating Formulas for Migraines and Headaches
- Ergot Alkaloid for Headaches
- Herbal Specifics for Pain in a variety of organ systems
- Herbal Formulas for general and non-specific pain
- Creating herbal formulas for Pain in the eyes, ears, nose, and throat
- The Role of TRP Channels and Analgesia
- Creating Herbal Formulas for Nerve pain
- Using Low Dose Botanicals to treat pain
- Creating Herbal Formulas for Skin Pain and Pruritis
- Vulneraries and Rubefacients
- Creating Herbal Formulas for Pain in the Chest and Lungs
- Creating Herbal Formulas for Pelvic and Uterine Pain
- Creating Herbal Formulas for Hepatic and Biliary Organs
- Creating Herbal Formulas for Urinary Pain
- Materia Medica Review for Anodyne Herbs and their Specific Indications
This Course Is For You If You
- Are in primary care, work in a general practice, or specialize in treating pain disorders, or
- Are a naturopathic doctor, herbalist, or other natural medicine practitioner who uses herbs and wants to learn more about botanical medicine interventions for treating pain.
What’s Included With Your Purchase
✔ Instant course access
✔ Lifetime course access
✔ 24/7 online access to course
✔ PDF of course slides
✔ PDF of certificate of completion
✔ Certificate of completion available immediately upon finishing the course
✔ CEs / PDAs as outlined below
Course Content
Instructor
Dr Jillian Stansbury is a licensed naturopathic physician with 30 years experience, specializing in women’s health, fertility, PCOS, adrenal and thyroid disorders, and endocrine imbalances. She also treats immune and allergic disorders, and chronic disease including diabetes, osteoporosis, metabolic syndrome, and heart disease, as well mental health disorders including anxiety and depression.
Dr Stansbury served as the Chair of the Botanical Medicine department at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, Oregon and remains on the faculty. Dr Stansbury enjoys keeping up with the latest research in natural products chemistry and sharing the developments with other health professionals, as well as delving deeply into traditional and folkloric wisdom on the uses of plants as foods and medicines. Dr Stansbury compiles her research and presents some 10-20 original research papers at medical conferences each year, and has published numerous scholarly articles and several books, including Herbs for Health and Healing, and PCOS Health and Nutritional Guide. She is the author of Herbal Formularies for Health Professionals - a comprehensive herbal formulary text based on her decades of research and clinical experience (published by Chelsea Green).
Dr Stansbury is also an ethnobotanist and has conducted field studies in the Peruvian Amazon for over a decade, living and studying with the Wachiperi, Matstigenka, Bora, and Yagua communities for many years, as well as studying Andean plants. She has created photo, video, and herbarium archives of the plants that she has learned and has published several books on this material as well, including Stung by the Rainbow, and the Mystical and Medicinal Plants of the Andes and Amazon. She leads ethnobotany field courses for nature, adventure, and plant enthusiasts in the Iquitos and Manu regions of the Peruvian Amazon each July 20-30, and winter holiday. Email Dr Stansbury for more information at [email protected].
Continuing Education Approvals
Canadian Federation of Aromatherapists (CFA)
6.25 CEUs total (up to 6.25 CEUs Category B) -Direct ApprovalCollege of Naturopaths of Ontario (CONO)
12.5 credits total (up to 12.5 credits Category A) -Direct ApprovalNew Hampshire Association of Naturopathic Doctors (NHAND)
12.5 CEUs total (up to 12.5 CEUs General) -Direct ApprovalVermont Office of Professional Regulation (VT OPR)
12.5 hours total (up to 12.5 hours General) -Direct ApprovalAlliance of International Aromatherapists (AIA)
6.25 CPDs total (up to 6.25 CPDs Category B) -Assumed ApprovalArizona Naturopathic Physicians Medical Board (AZ NPMB)
12.5 CMEs total (up to 12.5 CMEs General) -Assumed ApprovalCollege of Naturopathic Doctors of Alberta (CNDA)
12.5 continuing competence credits total -Assumed ApprovalCollege of Naturopathic Physicians of British Columbia (CNPBC)
12.5 hours total (up to 12.5 hours Category C - Educational Courses) -Assumed ApprovalCollege of Naturopaths of Ontario (CONO)
12.5 credits total (up to 12.5 credits Category B) -Assumed ApprovalColorado Office of Naturopathic Doctor Registration (CO ONDR)
12.5 PDAs total -Assumed ApprovalConnecticut Department of Public Health: Naturopathic Physician Licensure (CT DPH: NPL)
12.5 hours total -Assumed ApprovalCouncil for Homeopathic Certification (CHC)
12.5 CEUs total (up to 12.5 CEUs Category 2) -Assumed ApprovalDistrict of Columbia Health Regulation and Licensing Administration (DC HRLA)
12.5 hours total -Assumed ApprovalHawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs Professional & Vocational Licensing (HI DCCA)
12.5 CEs total (up to 12.5 CEs General) -Assumed ApprovalIdaho Board of Medicine: Naturopathic Medical Board (ID BOM: NMB)
12.5 hours total (up to 12.5 hours General) -Assumed ApprovalKansas State Board of Healing Arts (KS SBHA)
12.5 CEUs total -Assumed ApprovalMaine Board of Complementary Health Care Providers (ME BCHCP)
12.5 hours total (up to 12.5 hours General) -Assumed ApprovalManitoba Naturopathic Association (MNA)
12.5 hours total (up to 12.5 hours Category B) -Assumed ApprovalMaryland Board of Physicians (MD BP)
12.5 hours total -Assumed ApprovalMinnesota Board of Medical Practice (MN BMP)
12.5 contact hours total (up to 12.5 contact hours General) -Assumed ApprovalMontana Board of Alternative Health Care (MT BAHC)
12.5 hours total (up to 12.5 hours General) -Assumed ApprovalNorth Dakota Board of Integrative Health Care (ND BIHC)
12.5 credits total (up to 12.5 credits General) -Assumed ApprovalRhode Island Department of Health: Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline (RI DOH: BMLD)
12.5 hours total -Assumed ApprovalSaskatchewan Association of Naturopathic Practitioners (SANP)
12.5 hours total (up to 12.5 hours Category C) -Assumed ApprovalUtah Naturopathic Physician Licensing Board (UT NPLB)
12.5 CEs total (up to 12.5 CEs General) -Assumed ApprovalWashington State Department of Health: Board of Naturopathy (WA DOH: BON)
12.5 hours total (up to 12.5 hours Category 2) -Assumed Approval
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