A program that prepares individuals to utilize the materia medica and clinical practices of Western, Native American, African, Australasian, and other herbal medicine traditions to prevent and cure illness and temporary physical disorders. Includes instruction in basic anatomy, physiology, pathology, and toxicology; nutrition; terminology and materia medica; therapeutic herbalism; herbal pharmacy; botanicals and ethnobotany; wildcrafting and harvesting; labeling and dispensing phytotherapy; counterindications; practice management; consultation skills; and professional standards and ethics.
| A major in Herbalism/Herbalist is highly relevant for the following careers. National averages for wages in each career is provided. |
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Top 1
U.S.
Colleges with the
highest percentage
of
Herbalism/Herbalist among the 2006-2007
graduating class.
| | Bastyr University
Kenmore, WA | 21
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Degrees awarded represents the number of bachelor's degrees awarded among the 2006-2007 graduating class.