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2.00 Credits
2 credits This class covers a wide range of first aid situations including safety protocols, acute-care scenarios, pain remedies, materia medica, infections, allergies, preparing a first aid kit, commonly found first aid plants, injuries and wounds, burns, food and water sickness, animal bites and stings, and other first aid circumstances. Prerequisite: Must take concurrently with or after BO3114 or have permission from department
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1.00 Credits
Lecture/Lab 3 credits This course expands upon basic concepts of botany as they relate to the herbal sciences. It explores plants as a kingdom with unparalleled importance for the rest of planetary life and presents important concepts from botanical disciplines including plant identification, plant physiology, economic botany, ethnobotany, ecology, and plant genetics. Prerequisite: BO2101
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3.00 Credits
Lecture/Lab 3 credits This course develops plant taxonomy and morphology skills. Students learn distinguishing plant family characteristics and the use of a dichotomous key for identification. Basic life cycles of major plant groups are studied in relation to habitat, seasonal changes and climate impact. Outdoor field work, live plant laboratory study, and herbarium samples are utilized to aid in developing identification skills. Prerequisites: BO3103, BO3108, BO3114
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3.00 Credits
Lecture/Lab 3 credits As the beginning of the Herbal Sciences foundational coursework, Introduction to Herbal Sciences introduces students to diverse aspects of herbalism including current sociopolitical and legal trends, ethics, sustainable plant conservation, herbal terminology and preparations, manufacturing and retail site visits, and forest, field and garden herb walks. Prerequisite: Admission to herbal sciences program
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course presents the pharmacy of herbal medicine where the focus is on preparations from plants to products. This is a medicine-making lab. Students participate hands-on in the making of preparations for internal and topical use, including infusions and decoctions, tinctures, and other extracts, creams and ointments, compresses, poultices, suppositories and more. Local plant identification and harvesting techniques and practices are incorporated. Prerequisite: BO3108
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2.00 Credits
2 credits World herbalism is the focus of this course, introducing students to diverse cultures of herbal practices. Systems to be studied include Native American, Shamanic, Ayurvedic, TCM, Physiomedical and Eclectic, Unani and Tibetan. The energetic aspects of herbs including quantum physics, doctrine of signature and plant spirit medicine are explored. Prerequisite: BO3114 or permission from the department
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1.00 Credits
1 credit This is a field and lab course focusing on the plants of the Pacific Northwest. This class focuses on plant recognition and identification, botany, ethnobotany, and medicinal application of the plants found in the outdoor classroom of the Bastyr University campus. The class is primarily an outdoor field class, exploring all the new growth of the spring season, with some lab sessions to work with preparations of the plants being studied. It is a good companion class to Plant Identification as it reinforces the skills being learned in the laboratory. Prerequisites: BO3114 or permission from instructor
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course surveys diverse topics regarding herbs and food, with attention to the cultural and dietary evolution of herbal usage, herbal sources of primary nutrients, and the role of digestion, emphasizing herbal influences. Students gain an understanding of how to grow, harvest and utilize herbs to best obtain and maintain the highest nutrient availability. Prerequisites: BC3124, BC3143, BC4112, BC4113
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2.00 Credits
Lecture/Lab 3 credits This course deepens the botanical knowledge of students by presenting selected topics in advanced Botany. It presents plant development, and classic and modern methods of plant propagation. Students explore plant constituents in depth, including the classes of plant hormones and plant toxins, their roles in plants and humans, as well as the various groups of secondary plant substances that generate unique plant colors, spices, fragrances and medicine. Prerequisite: BO3103, BO3105, BO3114
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5.00 Credits
5 credits This course is the introduction to the materia medica series, taught with a foundation in plant taxonomy and pharmacognosy. The plant family structure acts as a mapping for learning nomenclature, energetics, folklore, chemical constituents, medicinal applications, pharmacy, toxicology and safety factors of chosen botanicals. Key actions of the herbs are explored based on several world herbal models, and the science and art of formulating are developed. Prerequisites: BC3143, BC4112, BC4113, BO3105, BO3114,
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