Advanced Diploma Course
Master Herbalist
With a focus on the systemic use of herbal formula and naturopathic herbal treatments, students are taught to treat the whole person rather than using treatment protocols for specific disease conditions and symptoms. This approach supports the body's own healing intelligence, and is in alignment with naturopathic principles, which are the guiding light of natural medicine. The course also teaches the core skills for creating your own herbal formula so that you can be truly independent as a practicing herbalist.
All students begin their Advanced Diploma Course studies by enrolling in the Integrative Herbal Medicine Diploma Online Course. Immersions are then enrolled in at your own pace, as you progress with your studies. You do not need to enrol on or pay for your Immersion Trainings, until you are ready to do so. Immersion Trainings can be undertaken in any order and each Immersion is offered on alternate years. Once you have completed each Online Diploma Course, you will receive professional qualifications (see prospectus) and upon completion of relevant Immersion Trainings, you will then graduate with each course Advanced Diploma (see below), culminating in achieving your Master Herbalist Advanced Diploma.
The Master Herbalist Professional Diploma Course is comprised of:
In Healing Diets, Herbal Medicine, Naturopathy & Iridology, Essential Oils & Healing Touch, and Quantum Botanicals & Flower Essences
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Healing Diets, Herbal Medicine, and Iridology & The Foundation of Natural Medicine online courses
diet | herbal medicine | iridology | pharmacy skills
The Master Herbalist course combines training in Healing Diets, cleansing and health building, culinary and medicinal herbs, a complete system of systemic herbal medicine, the foundation of natural medicine, including systemic anatomy and physiology, and an in-depth study of constitutional analysis and Iridology.
herbs and food as medicine, and iridology are taught in-depth:
Our Master Herbalist Advanced Diploma Course offers a complete system of herbal formula founded on naturopathic principles and the extensive herbal wisdom of Dr. John Christopher, Bonny's first teacher of herbal medicine. Dr. Christopher was a leading pioneer of Western Herbal Medicine in the last century. The formula in the course were created by Farida Sharan ND, and are based on a systemic approach to herbal medicine.
The course also provides the foundation needed for identifying, harvesting and storing herbs, and for making tinctures, salves, fomentations, poultices, ovules, distillations, etc…as well as the fundamental knowledge needed to confidently create your own herbal formulae.
These studies are then fully integrated with the in-depth study of Holistic Nutrition and the Foundation of Natural Medicine, including Holistic Anatomy and Physiology, Cleansing, Health Building and Iridology.
If you wish to create your own herbal practice and pharmacy, heal yourself, family and friends, create herbal products, import or export individual herbs, or practice herbal medicine in a clinical or retreat setting, this course provides comprehensive professional training to achieve your goals, and will remain a wealth of knowledge, wisdom and inspiration for years to come.
The Integrative Herbal Medicine Online Diploma Course is accredited by AADP and Complementary Medical Association. Upon graduation, from the Master Herbalist Advanced studies students further receive the Master Herbalist, Master Iridologist and Naturopathic Nutrition Advanced Diplomas. When students complete all modules for the Master Herbalist Professional Diploma, they also qualify as board certified Alternative Medical Practitioners with the AAMA.
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• 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, toxaemia, 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
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• 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.
• Herbs and healing
• Holistic perceptions
• Body, mind, spirit
• Vitamins and minerals for body organs, systems and glands
• Botany
• Chemistry of herbs
• 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
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• 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
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Healing Diets
Step into a delicious, delightful, hands-on experience that provides the true practical foundation for the inspired, creative preparation of therapeutic, nutrient-dense foods. This immersive training brings magic and inspiration directly into your personal relationship with food, giving you a grounded foundation to confidently share this life-changing knowledge with future clients.
- The Living Foods Kitchen: Participate actively in establishing the daily rhythms of a living foods kitchen.
- Nutritional Progression: Learn to guide individuals fluidly from therapeutic cleansing protocols to vibrant, long-term health building.
- Gourmet Raw Foods: Master the exquisite arts of gourmet raw food preparation to make healing lifestyle adjustments truly beautiful and satisfying.
- Practitioner Consultation Skills: Engage in focused lectures interspersed between kitchen hours, focusing specifically on professional client consultation and personalized program creation skills.
Healing Diets Immersion
Step into a professional training space focused entirely on the practical application, clinical consultation, and customized program creation skills required for an exceptionally effective practitioner career. This immersion allows you to refine your unique personal vision for your future practice while grounding your clinical protocols in pure natural law.
- Doctor as Teacher: Develop advanced client consultation skills in strict alignment with the core natural medicine principle of Docere (Doctor as Teacher).
- The Holistic Relationship: Learn the professional skills needed to establish a genuinely holistic, compassionate, and therapeutic patient-practitioner relationship.
- Apothecary & Pharmacy Administration: Master the essential business, logistical, and legal administrative protocols required to safely build and manage a professional herbal pharmacy.
- Practice Development: Cultivate the clinical confidence and structural skills needed to take your botanical medicine training and seamlessly launch it as a thriving vocational practice.
Herbal Medicine Immersion
The Visual Language of the Iris & Traditional Nature Cure
Unlock the profound visual language of the iris and discover the fundamental principles of Iridology and traditional Naturopathy as they directly apply to intuitive self-care, independent self-healing, and successful clinical practice. This 5-day immersion beautifully integrates the core philosophy and practical applications of classic nature cure with an advanced somatic understanding of the human blueprint.
Constitutional Mapping: Embark on an in-depth exploration of iris markings, structure and unique constitutional types to map out an individual's structural patterns.
Systemic Analysis: Master the study of iris structure, specific markings, body systems, and primary eliminative channels.
Naturopathic Therapeutics: Discover how to introduce tailored naturopathic therapies to actively support systemic elimination, safely relieve detox symptoms, and increase overall physical strength and vitality.
Energetic Vitality: Learn practical methods to support intrinsic constitutional strengths and weaknesses while balancing elemental energetics within the body.
Naturopathy & Iridology Immersion
Immerse yourself in a transformative 5-day training focused entirely on plant-based vibrational medicine. Grounded within our current scientific understanding of energy, space, matter, and organized energy fields, you will discover how the profound interconnectedness of mind and body can be actively harnessed to support self-healing and the evolution of consciousness.
- Fractal Landscape: Explore the intricate, fractal nature of human thoughts, emotions, and physical health.
- The 38 Bach Flower Remedies: Dive into a structured, in-depth study of the complete Dr. Bach range of flower essences to master plant-based vibrational medicine prescribing.
- The 12 Healers: Learn to accurately identify and apply the 12 primary remedies that correspond directly to core human personality types.
- The 7 Helpers: Master the selection of the 12 helper remedies, utilized when an individual's core personality becomes obscured by long-term dissociation or stressful/traumatic environmental influences.
- The 19 Situational Remedies: Understand how to utilize the 19 situational remedies to bring immediate harmony to acute internal or external stresses and negative life influences.
Quantum Botanicals &
Flower Essences Immersion
Explore the profound world of plant medicines that possess a unique, unmistakable resonance with the emotional body. This experiential training focuses on sacred healing processes that combine high-frequency botanicals with physical touch to bring deep coherence, systemic balance, and ultimate beauty into day-to-day life.
- Cellular & DNA Memory: Study how the complex chemistry and high vibrational frequency of pure essential oils act directly on cellular and DNA memory to permanently release accumulated trauma.
- Glandular Oxygenation: Discover how aromatic molecules increase vital oxygenation directly to the pineal and pituitary glands.
- Systemic Physiological Support: Learn how essential oils naturally support the healthy functioning of the endocrine, immune, nervous, respiratory, circulatory, and digestive systems.
- Nervous System Coherence: Master techniques designed to beautifully balance sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system function while encouraging deep heart-brain coherence.
- Neurological Processing & Mood Elevation: Harness potently anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, and anti-viral plant properties to increase right-hemisphere processing of life experiences, improve focus, boost memory, and serve as effective mood elevators.
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Suzanna Thelwall NNAP, IHM, HHP
Naturopathic Nutrition Advanced Practioner and Integrative Herbal Medicine graduate
“I have worked and completed various trainings in plant medicine over the last 18 years, but my training with The School of Natural Medicine UK has really expanded my business and deepened my knowledge and practice of natural medicine.”
