Beginner

A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs by Steven Foster

A Modern Herbal volume 1 and 2 by Maud Grieve

Backyard Medicine by Julie Bruton Seal and Matthew Seal

Botany in a Day by Thomas J. Elpel

Common Herbs for Natural Health by Juliette de Bairacli Levy

Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine by Andrew Chevallier

Food as Medicine by Todd Caldecott

Healing Wise by Susun Weed

Healing with the Herbs of Life by Lesley Tierra

Herbal Renaissance by Steven Foster

Holistic Herbal 4th Edition: A Safe and Practical Guide to Making and Using Herbal Remedies by David Hoffmann

Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner’s Guide: 33 Healing Herbs to Know, Grow, and Use by Rosemary Gladstar

Making Plant Medicine by Richo Cech

Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide by Lawrence Newcomb

Planting the Future: Saving our Medicinal Herbs by Rosemary Gladstar

Practical Herbs volumes 1 and 2 by Henriette Kress

Sacred Plant Medicine by Stephen Harrod Buhner

The Ayurveda Bible by Anne McIntyre

The Earthwise Herbal: Complete Guide to New World Plants by Matthew Wood

The Earthwise Herbal: Complete Guide to Old World Plants by Matthew Wood

The Gift of Healing Herbs by Robin Rose Bennett

The Herbal Handbook by David Hoffmann

The Herbalist’s Way: The Art and Practice of Healing with Plant Medicines by Nancy Phillips

The One Earth Herbal Sourcebook: Everything You Need to Know About Chinese, Western and Ayurvedic Herbal Treatments by Alan Tillotson

The Way of Herbs by Michael Tierra

The Yoga of Herbs: An Ayurvedic Guide to Herbal Medicine by David Frawley

Intermediate

Adaptogens by David Winston and Steven Maimes

Herbal Medicine from Heart of the Earth by Sharol Tilgner

Medical Herbalism by David Hoffmann

Native Plant Medicine by Daniel E. Moermann

Nutritional Herbology by Mark Pedersen

Planetary Herbology by Michael Tierra

Rosemary Gladstar’s Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner’s Guide by Rosemary Gladstar

The Energetics of Western Herbs volumes 1 and 2 by Peter Holmes

The Practice of Traditional Western Herbalism by Matthew Wood

The Way of Chinese Herbs by Michael Tierra

The Wild Medicine Solution by Guido Masé

Advanced

Adaptogens in Medical Herbalism by Donnie Yance

Botanical Ayurveda: The Divine Science of Life by Todd Caldecott

Clinical Botanical Medicine by Eric Yarnell, Kathy Abascal, and Carol Hooper

Clinical Naturopathic Medicine by Leah Hechtman

Kings American Dispensary by Harvey Felter and John Lloyd

Herbs and Natural Supplements: An Evidence-Based Guide by Lesley Braun and Marc Cohen

Medicine for Women’s Health by Aviva Romm

Principles & Practice of Phytotherapy, 2nd ed by Kerry Bones and Simon Mills

Textbook of Natural Medicine by Joseph Pizzorno and Michael T. Murray

The American Materia Medica by Finley Ellingwood

The Consultation in Phytotherapy by Peter Conway

The Eclectic Practice of Medicine by Finley Ellingwood

The Practicing Herbalist by Margi Flint

Weiss’s Herbal Medicine by R.F. Weiss

Herbs

From time to time, we may recommend various projects that require loose herbs. While these projects are optional, we believe that nothing can teach you more about herbs than working with them directly, so we hope you will participate if you are able. Many natural food stores and co-ops carry herbs at inexpensive bulk rates. If no resources exist near you, we suggest looking online to obtain herbs.

Some of our favorite online herbal shops are:

Mountain Rose Herbs

Frontier Co-op

Star-West Botanicals

The Herb Shop

Jean’s Greens

To prepare for your studies, pick up a few of these herbs that interest you! This is a narrowed down version of some of the more popular herbs that we discuss in our online programs. If you have herbs outside of this list already stored away, that’s great too! You’ll have plenty of recipes and projects to try them out!

• Chamomile flowers
• Calendula petals
• Rose petals
• Elderberry and flower
• Nettle leaf
• Lavender flowers
• Lemon Balm
• Catnip leaf
• Echinacea root
• Licorice root
• Astragalus root
• Eleuthero
• Peppermint
• Dandelion root
• Meadowsweet

Notebook, index cards, 8 oz. mason jars, cheesecloth, strainer, large bowls, funnel, small 1 or 2 oz. bottles, raw wildflower honey, apple cider vinegar, high proof brandy or vodka, natural waxed paper. Amazon will carry most of these supplies if you are looking to shop online.

For a direct link to your login, please go here: https://theherbalacademy.com/my-account/

This page allows you to log in with either your username or email. Or locate the Sign In option in the upper righthand corner of the Academy’s homepage.

If you don’t remember your password/username, please choose the forgot password option on that login page.

Once you log in, you will have access to your student dashboard, which you can find in the upper righthand corner of your screen. Just click on your name.

If you are having difficulties logging in with the “sign in” button. Please try to login here instead:

https://theherbalacademy.com/my-account/

At this page, you are able to log in using your username OR email address you used at registration. Click on the “forgot password” button if you need to reset your password.

Once you successfully login, look for your name in the upper righthand corner of your screen. Click on your name to access your Student Dashboard.

Watch the quick tutorial at the top of this webpage for a walk through of your Student Dashboard and programs.

All programs may be accessed in the Student Dashboard. Sign into your account, click on your name in the upper righthand corner of your screen, and you will find links to your enrolled programs.

Starting October 2015, we launched our new and improved Student Platform on this, our new website, theherbalacademy.com. We notified all of our students at that time that we would honor all expiration dates (9 months for the Introductory Course and 12 months for the Intermediate Course) to fulfill our agreement. Students who signed up for their classes on the old website were provided time to finish their courses before we closed it down AND they received a complimentary upgrade to this, our new website. If you missed these announcements and you wish to finish your course here on the new site, you will need to start the program over as the website does not allow for a transfer of progress. When you click on the “start” course button to begin your time access, this starts your studies from the beginning of the program, and you will have to retake your quizzes.

Please find the Download PDF option at the top of the righthand sidebar of each unit.

Look for PDF buttons throughout each of the courses to download and print charts.

Charts and Units:

If you have troubles printing a chart or unit, try downloading the image/PDF first using our Download Buttons. Save your PDF and then print from your computer. Fix your settings to print at 100% scale in order to keep the copy the correct size.

Ebooks and Flipbooks:

Each person’s printing settings will be a bit different and there are several ways to go about printing. Initially, we intended for our flip books to be printed either by a shop to be bound or to be printed and added to a binder. One option is to print your pages individually and add to a binder with clear sleeves. This is the easiest way to make your copy into a book! The print settings are easy, just print as normal and then add your pages in the order that makes sense to you. You can have two sheets in each sleeve.

If you choose to print the book and want pages front and back, simply print starting with page 2. Depending on your printer, you can either choose the front and back option for printing or the odd pages/even pages for printing.

If you want to view facing pages on one sheet, then select the 2 pages per sheet option and print pages 2 through xx. Good luck!

All answers for the quizzes are within all of the lessons in the entire unit. Study your notes and try to retake the quiz until you pass!

You must score 80% on each quiz in order to move on. We recommend you take an appropriate amount of time to study up, and really understand the material. If you didn’t get it the first time, don’t worry, you can try again until you get it right! Make sure you’re giving your programs the time required to study. Don’t just speed through the lessons. There is a ton of information in each unit, so take your time, go slow, and make sure you’ve got all of it. Each unit builds the foundation that the rest of your herbal journey rests upon, so let’s make sure you have a rock solid foundation under you.

Yes! We work with some wonderful herbal companies to help provide you, our student, with resources for enhancing your herbal studies. To find the student discounts available to you, please check your Student Dashboard. If you are eligible for discounts, you will see a tab called Student Discounts in the left hand side bar. Clicking this tab will bring you to the Student Discount page. 

At this time, no. We are not registered with any agency or licensing board as a continuing education provider. However, we have worked with several students to apply our program as a CEU. Get in touch with us if you would like us to work with you through the application process. We can provide documentation and a signed letter upon completion of the course.