Independent Health
The Art & Science
of Living Well
Our Independent Study Courses offer an affordable un-mentored option for those who wish to study for their own fulfilment and self-healing. Once purchased, students may begin their Independent Study Course at any time and there is no time limitation for completion. An Independent Study Course provides students with the full course materials from the corresponding professional Online Certification Course, but with a focus on self-healing, and with a significant reduction in cost. The Independent Study Courses are not accredited and do not result in a professional qualification, nor do they count towards any further or future qualifications, however they offer a superb foundation for long-term independent health.
Professional Level
Courses for Personal
Self Healing
APPLICATION
With 12 in-depth modules, this course will teach you far more than you ever imagined about the use of food for healing, and will ground this knowledge through personal experience-based lessons. Learn the principles of true nutrition, and how to understand the unique needs of each individual, within the context of personal circumstances and goals. Expand into healing diets for balancing the inner ecology, cleansing and rejuvenation, longevity, life phases, beauty, emotional wellbeing, mental clarity and support for the evolution of higher consciousness. Discover how your food buying choices either support quality of life and sustainability, or damaging political and corporate agendas and, further, how myriad factors affect soil health and the environment – which in turn affects a food’s nutrient density and innate healing capacity.
12 lessons - 540 pages
healing diets
independent study
view
course details
£220
course fee
purchase
• Food and consciousness: emotions, cognition, depression, anxiety, gut health, etc.
• Tissue Salts
• Parasite cleansing
• Vegan diet: philosophy, practical application and menu inspiration
• Health consequences of eating animal products
• Environmental consequences of eating animal products
• Social consequences of eating animal products
• Economic consequences of eating animal products
• Meat, dairy and egg replacers in recipes
• Vegan and vegetarian baking
• Food and Ethics
• Factory farming
• Genetically modified foods: health, environmental and economic/societal costs
• The seed industry
• Corporate food
• Litigation and school lunches
• Subsidised GMO farmers vs penalised organic farmers
• Slave labour in the food industry
• Codex Alimentarius
• Food additives
• Public Research - Private Gain: funding for food research/funding policies
• Changing food policies
• Food sovereignty
• Soil and health
• Organic farming: biodynamics and permaculture
• Self healing and independent health
• Creating a practice
• Creating a consultation space
• Practice promotion, websites and marketing
• Practice ethics and codes of conduct
• Consultation skills
• Healing Diets programme creation
• Diet and the immune system
• Lymphatic cleansing
• Diet and the nervous system
• Transition Diets
• Low glycemic diets
• Healing food habits: mealtime stories, food addiction, emotional eating and other eating disorders
• Oils and fats: raw, vegetable, nut and seed, methods of extraction, effects on health
• Creating a healing diets kitchen: tools, cookware
• Conscious eating: awareness, presentation, environment
• Menu inspiration
• Five elements: earth, water, fire, air and ether, and their relationship with diet
• Biological humours of Vata, Pita and Kapha
• The three Gunas and diet
• Six tastes: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter and astringent
• Healing spices: dosha balancing and medicinal benefits of culinary spices
• Living foods: history, benefits and practice
• Fermented food and drinks
• Sprouting
• Dehydrating foods
• Use of nuts and seeds in healing diets
• Raw food diets: transitioning to raw, raw food preparation, nutrient density, raw challenges, raw contraindications
• Assimilation of nutrient
• Diets for babies and children
• Diets for adolescence
• Diet for preparing for pregnancy, pregnancy and nursing
• Diet for health building and recovery
• Supportive diets for those on medication
• Diet for menopause
• Diet for the elderly
• Food and conditions for increasing beauty
• Nutrient density for athletes
• How the body utilises water in cell, organ, gland and systemic function.
• The effects of dehydration
• Water fasting: history, theory and practice
• Water quality, structure and preservation
• Water as a container for intention
• Juice fasting: history, theory and practice. Methods of juicing
• Liquitarian Diets
• Green drinks
• Produce hygiene
• Nutritional and medicinal properties of fruits and vegetables.
• Disease progression: enervation, toxemia, irritation, inflammation, ulceration, induration, fungation
• Steps to overcoming disease
• The eliminative organs and now to support them with diet, herbs and naturopathic therapies
• Detox symptoms and naturopathic treatments
• Bowel cleansing: theory and practice
• Digestive health and longevity
• In-depth study of the digestive system and enteric nervous system
• Liver and gallbladder cleansing: theory and practice
• Stomach cleansing and healing
• Nutritional support for body organs, systems and glands
• Kidney stone cleansing and urinary system support
• Wheatgrass, chlorophyl and Rejuvelac: benefits and use
• Purification Diet
• Food combining
• Alkaline diet: effects of pH on body cells, organs, glands and systems, and on mental and emotional health
• Minerals, vitamins, proteins, starch, fats, sugars, enzymes, antioxidants, phytonutrients pre and probiotics, life force in food, and their roles in body function
Course topics
healing diets
This course provides the foundation needed for identifying, harvesting and storing herbs, for creating herbal formula, and for making tinctures, salves, fomentations, poultices, ovules, infusions, syrups, lozenges and more. If you wish to create your own herbal pharmacy, heal yourself, family and friends, or create herbal products, this course will remain a wealth of
knowledge, wisdom and inspiration for years to come.
The course includes a detailed Materia Medica of more than 140 herbs, plus an extensive system of formula for body organs, systems and glands for truly holistic applications of herbal medicine.
12 lessons - 750 pages + dozens of vintage herbal e-books
herbal medicine
independent study
view
course details
£220
course fee
purchase
• Botany
• Chemistry of herbs
• Naming and identifying plants
• Collecting herbs and preparing herbarium specimens
• Plant classification appendix
• Pharmacy and dispensary
• How to set up a pharmacy
• Dosage
• Methods of herbal application
• First aid treatment
• Acute conditions
• Fomentations
• Infusions
• Ointments
• Ovules
• Pill making
• Poultices
• Smoking herbs
• Syrups and tinctures
• Materia Medica (116 primary herbs, plus dozens of supportive herbs) - action, active ingredients, activity, applications, aromatherapy, astrology, Ayurveda, cautions, contraindications, chakras, elements, emotions, Chinese medicine, combinations, cultivation, dosage, energetics, flower essences, formulas, habitat, history, homeopathy, meridians, organs, names, nutrients, part used, personality, plant description, research, spiritual properties, substitutions, systems, taste, tissues, wildcrafting and preparation.
• Iatrogenic drug induced disease
• Herbs and healing
• Holistic perceptions
• Body, mind, spirit
• Vitamins and minerals for body organs, systems and glands
• History and Philosophy
• Use of herbs in ancient and traditional societies
• Chemistry of herbs
• Climate, soil, active principles
• Collecting, harvesting, storage
• Extraction
• Food as Medicine
• Food addictions
• Effects of diet, coffee, alcohol, drugs, etc., on the healing process
• Creating herbal formulas
• Prescription symbols
• Herbal pharmacy terminology
• Contraindications for a range of situations
• Body systems and herbal medicine (anatomy and physiology is taught by body system and integrated through the course
Course topics
herbal medicine
The study of Iridology is uniquely suited to preventative medicine as it provides an opportunity to create highly personalised cleansing and health building programmes. Iridology is used to increase understanding of how a person’s stresses, lifestyle and habits interact with their unique strengths and weaknesses to create the specific health issues and mind-body dynamics that they are experiencing, and how to reverse this process through the educated use of diet and lifestyle interventions.
14 lessons - 453 pages + hundreds of iris photos + 3 e-books
iridology &
foundation
of natural medicine
independent study
view
course details
£220
course fee
purchase
• Reproductive system in the iris
• Respiratory system in the iris
• Urinary system in the iris
• Skeletal and muscular systems in the iris
• Iridian psychology
• Rayid model
• Flower essences, emotional healing and Iridology
• Eliminative channels in the iris
• European constitutional types
• Faridian constitutional types
• Holistic anatomy and physiology
• Nervous system in the iris
• Digestive system in the iris
• Circulatory system in the iris
• Lymphatic system in the iris
• Endcrine system in the iris
• History and Philosophy of Iridology - from 1000 BC to today
• Foundation of Natural Medicine
• Symbolic language of the interior world
• Iris topography
• Embryology
• Iris drawing
• Iris texture
• Basic Iris Signs
Course topics
Iridology
The Quantum Botanical Online Certification Course offers a loving and mind-expanding exploration of the plant world, and the nature of consciousness and quantum physics. This pioneering one-of-a-kind course will open your heart and mind in profound ways that will change the way you perceive healing, personal evolution and your relationship with nature. Learn skills to release trauma held in the body, allowing for clearer perception and a more peaceful, present approach to life.
12 lessons - 440 pages
quantum botanicals
& flower essences
independent study
view
course details
£220
course fee
purchase
• Consultation skills
• Observation and active listening
• Choosing a remedy for yourself
• Choosing a rememdy for others - conslutation, dousing, muscle testing
• Case History skills
• MYMOP patient questionnaires
• Combining vibrational modalities
• Polarity therapy and flower essences
• Floral acupuncture and the Chinese meridians
• Essential oils and flower essences
• Herbal Medicine and Quantum Healing
• Reiki and flower essences
• Sound healing and flower essences
• Colour therapy and flower essences
• Vibrational essences
• Nature Remedies & Tree Essences
• Gem, Crystal and Star Elixers
• Essence development
• Product creation/storage/hygiene/carriers/
labelling/packaging
• Energy medicine chest
• Practice development
• Code of Conduct - Ethics
• Relationship between Mind, Emotions and Physical Body
• Candace Pert - the effect of emotions on molecular/cell behaviour
• What is Vibrational Medicine
• What is Health?
• What is Disease?
• Natural Laws
• Early development of Homeopathy
• Elemental energetics - Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Ether
• Why Water?
• Ayurvedic Chakras & Emotions
• Bach Flower Remedies
• History of Dr. Edward Bach
• Early development of the Bach Flower Remedies
• Bach - 12 Healers
• Bach - 4 + 3 Helpers
• Bach - 19 Situation Remedies
• Flower Essences in Practice
• Patterns of Behaviour - mental/emotional imbalances play out through individual constitutional strenghts and weaknesses in disease creation
• Flower Essences - Acute and Chronic approaches to treatment
• Flower Essences and depression, fear, anxiety, exhaustion, trauma/PTSD, abuse, addiction, life direction, etc.
• Developing empathy and compassion
• Mind Maps
• What is Matter
• Euclidian/Newtonian Science
• Scientific Method/Planck/Einstein/Quantum
• Physicias/Mandelbrot Set/Holographic Universe/Fractal Potential
• How does matter communicate?
• Electromagnetic Energy
• How do cells communicate?
• Self organisation & emergent behaviours
• Left/Right brain hemisphere dynamics
• Heart Math/Heart Brain Entrainment
• Intuition
• Felt Sense
• Metta Practice
• Plant Consciousness
• Darwin & Botany
• History of Plants as Medicine
• How Plants Communicate
• Direct Perception Plant Communication
• Physical and Subtle Bodies
• Etheric Body
• Emotional/Pain Body
• Mental Body
• Spiritual Body/Consciousness
• Bulleted List Item
• Sub-Conscious/Collective Unconscious
Course topics
Quantum Botanicals
In this comprehensive course you will become expertly attuned to the concept of ‘cause and effect’ – as you learn to use diet, herbal medicine and supportive therapies to increase health and vitality, and to achieve balance, harmony and wellbeing.
This course includes the study of diet and nutrition, cleansing and rejuvenation, supportive herbal treatments, Iridology, the full spectrum of naturopathic treatments and lifestyle, and more.
Includes 4 online courses, : Healing Diet, Herbal Medicine, Iridology and Naturopathy online courses
50 lessons - 2217 pages
naturopathy
independent study
healing diets
course topics
£750
course fee
herbal medicine
course topics
iridology
course topics
naturopathy
course topics
purchase
• Heredity
• Sexuality and Reproduction
• Life Habits
• A Healing Home
• Personal Hygiene
• Inner and Outer Ecology
• Healing Processes
• Healing Crisis/Achievement
• Exercise
• Psychology of Illness/Wellness
• Relationships
• Cleansing and Purification
• Rebuilding/Regenerating
• Case Taking
• Consultation Skills
• Methods of analysis
• Healing Centres/Sanitariums
• Complete system of nature cure
• Dozens of individual treatments
• Chronic Disease and Treatment
• Relieving stress of chronic conditions
• Reversing disease process
• Earth Elemental Energetics
• Water Elemental Energetics
• Fire Elemental Energetics
• Air Elemental Energetics
• Ether Elemental Energetics
• Nutrition
• Climate/Environment
• Polarity Therapy
• Earth therapies
• Water Therapies
• Bowel cleansing
• Constitutional diagnosis and treatment
• Effects of system weakness
• Discrimination
• Vibrational healing
• Emotional Healing
• History and Philosophy of Naturopathy
• What is Health? What is Cure?
• Laws of Living
• Laws of Cure
• Health/Disease Continuum
• Acute disease and treatment
• Suppresion vs Elimination
• The effects of inflammataion
• Holistic Anatomy & Physiology
• 9 Body Systems
• Lymphatic System
• Circulatory System
• Reproductive System
• Endocrine System
• Respiratory System
• Digestive System
• Urinary System
• Musculoskeletal System
• Nervous System
course topics
Naturopathy
• Food and consciousness: emotions, cognition, depression, anxiety, gut health, etc.
• Tissue Salts
• Parasite cleansing
• Vegan diet: philosophy, practical application and menu inspiration
• Health consequences of eating animal products
• Environmental consequences of eating animal products
• Social consequences of eating animal products
• Economic consequences of eating animal products
• Meat, dairy and egg replacers in recipes
• Vegan and vegetarian baking
• Food and Ethics
• Factory farming
• Genetically modified foods: health, environmental and economic/societal costs
• The seed industry
• Corporate food
• Litigation and school lunches
• Subsidised GMO farmers vs penalised organic farmers
• Slave labour in the food industry
• Codex Alimentarius
• Food additives
• Public Research - Private Gain: funding for food research/funding policies
• Changing food policies
• Food sovereignty
• Soil and health
• Organic farming: biodynamics and permaculture
• Self healing and independent health
• Creating a practice
• Creating a consultation space
• Practice promotion, websites and marketing
• Practice ethics and codes of conduct
• Consultation skills
• Healing Diets programme creation
• Diet and the immune system
• Lymphatic cleansing
• Diet and the nervous system
• Transition Diets
• Low glycemic diets
• Healing food habits: mealtime stories, food addiction, emotional eating and other eating disorders
• Oils and fats: raw, vegetable, nut and seed, methods of extraction, effects on health
• Creating a healing diets kitchen: tools, cookware
• Conscious eating: awareness, presentation, environment
• Menu inspiration
• Five elements: earth, water, fire, air and ether, and their relationship with diet
• Biological humours of Vata, Pita and Kapha
• The three Gunas and diet
• Six tastes: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter and astringent
• Healing spices: dosha balancing and medicinal benefits of culinary spices
• Living foods: history, benefits and practice
• Fermented food and drinks
• Sprouting
• Dehydrating foods
• Use of nuts and seeds in healing diets
• Raw food diets: transitioning to raw, raw food preparation, nutrient density, raw challenges, raw contraindications
• Assimilation of nutrient
• Diets for babies and children
• Diets for adolescence
• Diet for preparing for pregnancy, pregnancy and nursing
• Diet for health building and recovery
• Supportive diets for those on medication
• Diet for menopause
• Diet for the elderly
• Food and conditions for increasing beauty
• Nutrient density for athletes
• How the body utilises water in cell, organ, gland and systemic function.
• The effects of dehydration
• Water fasting: history, theory and practice
• Water quality, structure and preservation
• Water as a container for intention
• Juice fasting: history, theory and practice. Methods of juicing
• Liquitarian Diets
• Green drinks
• Produce hygiene
• Nutritional and medicinal properties of fruits and vegetables.
• Disease progression: enervation, toxemia, irritation, inflammation, ulceration, induration, fungation
• Steps to overcoming disease
• The eliminative organs and now to support them with diet, herbs and naturopathic therapies
• Detox symptoms and naturopathic treatments
• Bowel cleansing: theory and practice
• Digestive health and longevity
• In-depth study of the digestive system and enteric nervous system
• Liver and gallbladder cleansing: theory and practice
• Stomach cleansing and healing
• Nutritional support for body organs, systems and glands
• Kidney stone cleansing and urinary system support
• Wheatgrass, chlorophyl and Rejuvelac: benefits and use
• Purification Diet
• Food combining
• Alkaline diet: effects of pH on body cells, organs, glands and systems, and on mental and emotional health
• Minerals, vitamins, proteins, starch, fats, sugars, enzymes, antioxidants, phytonutrients pre and probiotics, life force in food, and their roles in body function
Course topics
healing diets
• Botany
• Chemistry of herbs
• Naming and identifying plants
• Collecting herbs and preparing herbarium specimens
• Plant classification appendix
• Pharmacy and dispensary
• How to set up a pharmacy
• Dosage
• Methods of herbal application
• First aid treatment
• Acute conditions
• Fomentations
• Infusions
• Ointments
• Ovules
• Pill making
• Poultices
• Smoking herbs
• Syrups and tinctures
• Materia Medica (116 primary herbs, plus dozens of supportive herbs) - action, active ingredients, activity, applications, aromatherapy, astrology, Ayurveda, cautions, contraindications, chakras, elements, emotions, Chinese medicine, combinations, cultivation, dosage, energetics, flower essences, formulas, habitat, history, homeopathy, meridians, organs, names, nutrients, part used, personality, plant description, research, spiritual properties, substitutions, systems, taste, tissues, wildcrafting and preparation.
• Iatrogenic drug induced disease
• Herbs and healing
• Holistic perceptions
• Body, mind, spirit
• Vitamins and minerals for body organs, systems and glands
• History and Philosophy
• Use of herbs in ancient and traditional societies
• Chemistry of herbs
• Climate, soil, active principles
• Collecting, harvesting, storage
• Extraction
• Food as Medicine
• Food addictions
• Effects of diet, coffee, alcohol, drugs, etc., on the healing process
• Creating herbal formulas
• Prescription symbols
• Herbal pharmacy terminology
• Contraindications for a range of situations
• Body sysetms and herbal medicine (anatomy and physiology is taught by body system and integreated through the course
Course topics
herbal medicine
• Reproductive system in the iris
• Respiratory system in the iris
• Urinary system in the iris
• Skeletal and muscular systems in the iris
• Iridian psychology
• Rayid model
• Flower essences, emotional healing and Iridology
• Eliminative channels in the iris
• European constitutional types
• Faridian constitutional types
• Holistic anatomy and physiology
• Nervous system in the iris
• Digestive system in the iris
• Circulatory system in the iris
• Lymphatic system in the iris
• Endcrine system in the iris
• History and Philosophy of Iridology - from 1000 BC to today
• Foundation of Natural Medicine
• Symbolic language of the interior world
• Iris topography
• Embryology
• Iris drawing
• Iris texture
• Basic Iris Signs
Course topics
Iridology
In this rich and rewarding course, all four primary forms of plant medicine are taught in-depth: diet, herbal medicine, essential oils and flower essences. The Natural Physician online course combines training in pure Naturopathy with the latest research in diet and nutrition, phytonutrients, psychoneuroimmunology, epigenetics, heart-brain coherence, vibrational medicine, quantum physics, chaos theory and fractal progression. This is a comprehensive course that provides a superb foundation for Independent Health.
Includes 5 online courses, : Healing Diet, Herbal Medicine, Iridology, Quantum Botanicals and Naturopathy online courses
62 lessons - 2657 pages
natural physician
independent study
£850
course fee
healing diets
course topics
herbal medicine
course topics
iridology
course topics
Quantum Botanicals
course topics
naturopathy
course topics
purchase
• Consultation skills
• Observation and active listening
• Choosing a remedy for yourself
• Choosing a rememdy for others - conslutation, dousing, muscle testing
• Case History skills
• MYMOP patient questionnaires
• Combining vibrational modalities
• Polarity therapy and flower essences
• Floral acupuncture and the Chinese meridians
• Essential oils and flower essences
• Herbal Medicine and Quantum Healing
• Reiki and flower essences
• Sound healing and flower essences
• Colour therapy and flower essences
• Vibrational essences
• Nature Remedies & Tree Essences
• Gem, Crystal and Star Elixers
• Essence development
• Product creation/storage/hygiene/carriers/labelling/
packaging
• Energy medicine chest
• Practice development
• Code of Conduct - Ethics
• Relationship between Mind, Emotions and Physical Body
• Candace Pert - the effect of emotions on molecular/cell behaviour
• What is Vibrational Medicine
• What is Health?
• What is Disease?
• Natural Laws
• Early development of Homeopathy
• Elemental energetics - Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Ether
• Why Water?
• Ayurvedic Chakras & Emotions
• Bach Flower Remedies
• History of Dr. Edward Bach
• Early development of the Bach Flower Remedies
• Bach - 12 Healers
• Bach - 4 + 3 Helpers
• Bach - 19 Situation Remedies
• Flower Essences in Practice
• Patterns of Behaviour - mental/emotional imbalances play out through individual constitutional strenghts and weaknesses in disease creation
• Flower Essences - Acute and Chronic approaches to treatment
• Flower Essences and depression, fear, anxiety, exhaustion, trauma/PTSD, abuse, addiction, life direction, etc.
• Developing empathy and compassion
• Mind Maps
• What is Matter
• Euclidian/Newtonian Science
• Scientific Method/Planck/Einstein/Quantum
• Physicias/Mandelbrot Set/Holographic Universe/Fractal Potential
• How does matter communicate?
• Electromagnetic Energy
• How do cells communicate?
• Self organisation & emergent behaviours
• Left/Right brain hemisphere dynamics
• Heart Math/Heart Brain Entrainment
• Intuition
• Felt Sense
• Metta Practice
• Plant Consciousness
• Darwin & Botany
• History of Plants as Medicine
• How Plants Communicate
• Direct Perception Plant Communication
• Physical and Subtle Bodies
• Etheric Body
• Emotional/Pain Body
• Mental Body
• Spiritual Body/Consciousness
• Bulleted List Item
• Sub-Conscious/Collective Unconscious
Course topics
Quantum Botanicals
• History and Philosophy of Naturopathy
• What is Health? What is Cure?
• Laws of Living
• Laws of Cure
• Health/Disease Continuum
• Acute disease and treatment
• Suppresion vs Elimination
• The effects of inflammataion
• Holistic Anatomy & Physiology
• 9 Body Systems
• Lymphatic System
• Circulatory System
• Reproductive System
• Endocrine System
• Respiratory System
• Digestive System
• Urinary System
• Musculoskeletal System
• Nervous System
course topics
Naturopathy
• Chronic Disease and Treatment
• Relieving stress of chronic conditions
• Reversing disease process
• Earth Elemental Energetics
• Water Elemental Energetics
• Fire Elemental Energetics
• Air Elemental Energetics
• Ether Elemental Energetics
• Nutrition
• Climate/Environment
• Polarity Therapy
• Earth therapies
• Water Therapies
• Bowel cleansing
• Constitutional diagnosis and treatment
• Effects of system weakness
• Discrimination
• Vibrational healing
• Emotional Healing
• Heredity
• Sexuality and Reproduction
• Life Habits
• A Healing Home
• Personal Hygiene
• Inner and Outer Ecology
• Healing Processes
• Healing Crisis/Achievement
• Exercise
• Psychology of Illness/Wellness
• Relationships
• Cleansing and Purification
• Rebuilding/Regenerating
• Case Taking
• Consultation Skills
• Methods of analysis
• Healing Centres/Sanitariums
• Complete system of nature cure
• Dozens of individual treatments
• Food and consciousness: emotions, cognition, depression, anxiety, gut health, etc.
• Tissue Salts
• Parasite cleansing
• Vegan diet: philosophy, practical application and menu inspiration
• Health consequences of eating animal products
• Environmental consequences of eating animal products
• Social consequences of eating animal products
• Economic consequences of eating animal products
• Meat, dairy and egg replacers in recipes
• Vegan and vegetarian baking
• Food and Ethics
• Factory farming
• Genetically modified foods: health, environmental and economic/societal costs
• The seed industry
• Corporate food
• Litigation and school lunches
• Subsidised GMO farmers vs penalised organic farmers
• Slave labour in the food industry
• Codex Alimentarius
• Food additives
• Public Research - Private Gain: funding for food research/funding policies
• Changing food policies
• Food sovereignty
• Soil and health
• Organic farming: biodynamics and permaculture
• Self healing and independent health
• Creating a practice
• Creating a consultation space
• Practice promotion, websites and marketing
• Practice ethics and codes of conduct
• Consultation skills
• Healing Diets programme creation
• Diet and the immune system
• Lymphatic cleansing
• Diet and the nervous system
• Transition Diets
• Low glycemic diets
• Healing food habits: mealtime stories, food addiction, emotional eating and other eating disorders
• Oils and fats: raw, vegetable, nut and seed, methods of extraction, effects on health
• Creating a healing diets kitchen: tools, cookware
• Conscious eating: awareness, presentation, environment
• Menu inspiration
• Five elements: earth, water, fire, air and ether, and their relationship with diet
• Biological humours of Vata, Pita and Kapha
• The three Gunas and diet
• Six tastes: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter and astringent
• Healing spices: dosha balancing and medicinal benefits of culinary spices
• Living foods: history, benefits and practice
• Fermented food and drinks
• Sprouting
• Dehydrating foods
• Use of nuts and seeds in healing diets
• Raw food diets: transitioning to raw, raw food preparation, nutrient density, raw challenges, raw contraindications
• Assimilation of nutrient
• Diets for babies and children
• Diets for adolescence
• Diet for preparing for pregnancy, pregnancy and nursing
• Diet for health building and recovery
• Supportive diets for those on medication
• Diet for menopause
• Diet for the elderly
• Food and conditions for increasing beauty
• Nutrient density for athletes
• How the body utilises water in cell, organ, gland and systemic function.
• The effects of dehydration
• Water fasting: history, theory and practice
• Water quality, structure and preservation
• Water as a container for intention
• Juice fasting: history, theory and practice. Methods of juicing
• Liquitarian Diets
• Green drinks
• Produce hygiene
• Nutritional and medicinal properties of fruits and vegetables.
• Disease progression: enervation, toxemia, irritation, inflammation, ulceration, induration, fungation
• Steps to overcoming disease
• The eliminative organs and now to support them with diet, herbs and naturopathic therapies
• Detox symptoms and naturopathic treatments
• Bowel cleansing: theory and practice
• Digestive health and longevity
• In-depth study of the digestive system and enteric nervous system
• Liver and gallbladder cleansing: theory and practice
• Stomach cleansing and healing
• Nutritional support for body organs, systems and glands
• Kidney stone cleansing and urinary system support
• Wheatgrass, chlorophyl and Rejuvelac: benefits and use
• Purification Diet
• Food combining
• Alkaline diet: effects of pH on body cells, organs, glands and systems, and on mental and emotional health
• Minerals, vitamins, proteins, starch, fats, sugars, enzymes, antioxidants, phytonutrients pre and probiotics, life force in food, and their roles in body function
Course topics
healing diets
• Botany
• Chemistry of herbs
• Naming and identifying plants
• Collecting herbs and preparing herbarium specimens
• Plant classification appendix
• Pharmacy and dispensary
• How to set up a pharmacy
• Dosage
• Methods of herbal application
• First aid treatment
• Acute conditions
• Fomentations
• Infusions
• Ointments
• Ovules
• Pill making
• Poultices
• Smoking herbs
• Syrups and tinctures
• Materia Medica (116 primary herbs, plus dozens of supportive herbs) - action, active ingredients, activity, applications, aromatherapy, astrology, Ayurveda, cautions, contraindications, chakras, elements, emotions, Chinese medicine, combinations, cultivation, dosage, energetics, flower essences, formulas, habitat, history, homeopathy, meridians, organs, names, nutrients, part used, personality, plant description, research, spiritual properties, substitutions, systems, taste, tissues, wildcrafting and preparation.
• Iatrogenic drug induced disease
• Herbs and healing
• Holistic perceptions
• Body, mind, spirit
• Vitamins and minerals for body organs, systems and glands
• History and Philosophy
• Use of herbs in ancient and traditional societies
• Chemistry of herbs
• Climate, soil, active principles
• Collecting, harvesting, storage
• Extraction
• Food as Medicine
• Food addictions
• Effects of diet, coffee, alcohol, drugs, etc., on the healing process
• Creating herbal formulas
• Prescription symbols
• Herbal pharmacy terminology
• Contraindications for a range of situations
• Body sysetms and herbal medicine (anatomy and physiology is taught by body system and integreated through the course
Course topics
herbal medicine
• Reproductive system in the iris
• Respiratory system in the iris
• Urinary system in the iris
• Skeletal and muscular systems in the iris
• Iridian psychology
• Rayid model
• Flower essences, emotional healing and Iridology
• Eliminative channels in the iris
• European constitutional types
• Faridian constitutional types
• Holistic anatomy and physiology
• Nervous system in the iris
• Digestive system in the iris
• Circulatory system in the iris
• Lymphatic system in the iris
• Endcrine system in the iris
• History and Philosophy of Iridology - from 1000 BC to today
• Foundation of Natural Medicine
• Symbolic language of the interior world
• Iris topography
• Embryology
• Iris drawing
• Iris texture
• Basic Iris Signs
Course topics
Iridology
