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SWSBM continues to offer distance learning programs that represent Michael Moore’s herbal wisdom and the unique knowledge he accumulated during three decades of teaching and a lifetime of studying medicinal plants. These programs, which include an extensive library of Michael in the classroom setting, are available in an easy to access, online video format.
The Constitutional and Therapeutics course and the Materia Medica course are available for free. Taken together, they represent the last class taught by Michael Moore at the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine, in the spring of 2006. Michael chose to offer them as individual modules, to afford folks as many choices as possible.
Herbal Therapeutics and Constitutional Evaluation
Each organ system of the body is dealt with in physiological terms, therapeutic and treatment methods, and constitutional aspects. The specific tonic herbs for each organ system or stress type are presented and expired in depth. There are 140 hours of lectures and 12 lessons. Most lessons contain 11-12 hours of classes.
Materia Medica
Michael’s lectures cover the botanical nature of the plants, their habitat, distribution, constituents, what they should look like and taste like in commerce, how to grow or gather them, parts used, preferred form of preparation and dosages, therapeutic uses and their stature as remedies. Video is interspersed with film clips, photographs, distribution maps, etc. The lessons total 115 hours; audio portions covering secondary plants total 100 hours.
Lectures in Botanical Materia Medica
Audio files from a 4-CD set originally recorded by Michael in the classroom and the field during the 2002 program.