Creating Herbal Formulas: Psychiatric Conditions

14.25 hours

Creating Herbal Formulas: Psychiatric Conditions

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: Psychiatric Conditions focuses on common issues in general family practice from mood disorders to addictions and everything in between. This presentation will review herbs with folkloric and historical use for psychiatric conditions, as well as review the modern research on molecular constituents and mechanisms of action.

Psychiatric Conditions: Formulas for Specific Systems (8 hours 30 minutes)

Dr. Stansbury explains the pathophysiology of different psychiatric conditions and overviews modern research on molecular constituents and mechanisms of actions for each herb presented.

She offers formulas for specific psychiatric conditions like:

  • Anxiety/Depression
  • Dissociative Disorders
  • Panic Disorders
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
  • Insomnia
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Schizophrenia
  • Delusional Disorders
  • Drug Addiction
  • Substance Abuse

Psychiatric Conditions: Materia Medica (3 hours 30 minutes)

In this portion of the course, Dr. Stansbury covers herbs helpful for psychiatric conditions, their applications, benefits, and other clinical pearls that she has learned over the years, including (but not limited to):

  • Aconitum napellus (Aconite)
  • Actaea racemosa (Black Cohosh)
  • Albizia julibrissin (Mimosa)
  • Anemone pulsatilla (Pulsatilla)
  • Bupleurum falcatum (Chinese Thoroughwax)
  • Cannabis sativa (Marijuana)
  • Celastrus paniculatus (Jyotishmati)
  • Crocus sativus (Saffron)
  • Eschscholzia californica (California Poppy)
  • Gelsemium semperivirens (Yellow Jasmine)
  • Hypericum perforatum (St. Johns Wort)
  • Jasminum officinale (Jasmine)
  • Laburnum anagyroides (Golden Chain)
  • Leonurus cardiaca (Motherwort)
  • Magnolia officinalis (Magnolia)
  • Mitragyna speciosa (Kratom)
  • Nelumbo nucifera (Lotus)
  • Nymphaea nouchali (Blue Water Lily)
  • Perilla frutescens (Shiso)
  • Poria cocos (Hoelen)
  • Rubia cordifolia (Madder)
  • Psilocybe cubensis (Magic Mushroom)
  • Pueraris montana var. lobata (Kudzu)
  • Rauvolfia serpentina (Indian Snakeroot)
  • Rhodiola rosea (Arctic Rose)
  • Schisandra chinensis (Magnolia Vine)
  • Ziziphus jujuba (Chinese Date)

And much, much more!

What You’ll Learn

  • Creating herbal formulas for common mood disorders including anxiety and depression
  • Review of the folkloric nervine herbs
  • Herbs for Deficient Adrenergic Tone
  • Overview of Stress, the HPA Axis and role in Psychiatric Conditions
  • How to work with Anxious Patients
  • Differential for herbal options for Anxiety, and specifics for different anxiety presentations
  • Creating herbal formulas for Panic Disorders
  • Creating Herbal Formulas for PTSD
  • Creating Herbal Formulas for Insomnia
  • Creating Herbal Formulas for Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Creating Formulas for Schizophrenia and Delusional Disorder
  • Approaches and Herbal Formulas to Treating Drug Addiction
  • The Reward Pathway and the Dopamine Hypothesis
  • Entheogens for Substance Abuse Disorders
  • Materia Medica Review of herbs to treat psychiatric conditions and their molecular research and specific indications

This Course Is For You If You

Are in primary care, work in a general practice, or specialize in treating psychiatric conditions, 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 psychiatric conditions.
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

  • Introduction 1h 02min
  • Anxiety and Depression 1h 49min
  • Panic Disorder 39min
  • Post-traumatic Stress Disorder 58min
  • Insomnia 47min
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder 11min
  • Formulas for ADHD 43min
  • Schizophrenia and Delusional Disorders 1h 30min
  • Addictive Disorders 2h 08min
  • Entheogens for Addictive Disorders 50min
  • Materia Medica 3h 19min

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)

    7.125 CEUs total (up to 7.125 CEUs Category B) -Direct Approval
  • College of Naturopaths of Ontario (CONO)

    14.25 credits total (up to 14.25 credits Category A) -Direct Approval
  • New Hampshire Association of Naturopathic Doctors (NHAND)

    14.25 CEUs total (up to 14.25 CEUs General) -Direct Approval
  • Vermont Office of Professional Regulation (VT OPR)

    14.25 hours total (up to 14.25 hours General) -Direct Approval
  • Alliance of International Aromatherapists (AIA)

    7.125 CPDs total (up to 7.125 CPDs Category B) -Assumed Approval
  • Arizona Naturopathic Physicians Medical Board (AZ NPMB)

    14.25 CMEs total (up to 14.25 CMEs General) -Assumed Approval
  • College of Naturopathic Doctors of Alberta (CNDA)

    14.25 continuing competence credits total -Assumed Approval
  • College of Naturopathic Physicians of British Columbia (CNPBC)

    14.25 hours total (up to 14.25 hours Category C - Educational Courses) -Assumed Approval
  • College of Naturopaths of Ontario (CONO)

    14.25 credits total (up to 14.25 credits Category B) -Assumed Approval
  • Colorado Office of Naturopathic Doctor Registration (CO ONDR)

    14.25 PDAs total -Assumed Approval
  • Council for Homeopathic Certification (CHC)

    14.25 CEUs total (up to 14.25 CEUs Category 2) -Assumed Approval
  • District of Columbia Health Regulation and Licensing Administration (DC HRLA)

    14.25 hours total -Assumed Approval
  • Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs Professional & Vocational Licensing (HI DCCA)

    14.25 CEs total (up to 14.25 CEs General) -Assumed Approval
  • Idaho Board of Medicine: Naturopathic Medical Board (ID BOM: NMB)

    14.25 hours total (up to 14.25 hours General) -Assumed Approval
  • Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (KS SBHA)

    14.25 CEUs total -Assumed Approval
  • Maine Board of Complementary Health Care Providers (ME BCHCP)

    14.25 hours total (up to 14.25 hours General) -Assumed Approval
  • Maryland Board of Physicians (MD BP)

    14.25 hours total -Assumed Approval
  • Minnesota Board of Medical Practice (MN BMP)

    14.25 contact hours total (up to 14.25 contact hours General) -Assumed Approval
  • Montana Board of Alternative Health Care (MT BAHC)

    14.25 hours total (up to 14.25 hours General) -Assumed Approval
  • North Dakota Board of Integrative Health Care (ND BIHC)

    14.25 credits total (up to 14.25 credits General) -Assumed Approval
  • Rhode Island Department of Health: Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline (RI DOH: BMLD)

    14.25 hours total -Assumed Approval
  • Saskatchewan Association of Naturopathic Practitioners (SANP)

    14.25 hours total (up to 14.25 hours Category C) -Assumed Approval
  • Utah Naturopathic Physician Licensing Board (UT NPLB)

    14.25 CEs total (up to 14.25 CEs General) -Assumed Approval
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