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Nutrition I

Welcome to the Nutrition Level I online course. This course covers a wide range of nutrition related topics including the basics of nutrition right down to the cellular level, nutrients, diet fads, important information about how food is grown and processed, and your choices as a consumer. In practicing what you learn, you will gain a newfound sense of responsibility for your own health and adapt a `nutrition as preventative medicine' attitude, enabling you to better counsel and assist your clients, family and friends.

Research Skills

Welcome to the Wild Rose College of Natural Healing Research Skills course. This course is a collection of information that will help you in your studies of complimentary and alternative health care.

History of Herbal Medicine

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Iridology

What is iridology? It is a method that enables us to know the tissue strength of the various parts of the body. It is the science, and no less the art, of analysing body conditions from examination of the iris of the eye.

Natural Pregnancy & Childbirth

This course focuses on the use of herbs in pregnancy and childbirth, alternative birthing methods, nutrition and exercise during pregnancy and general knowledge. Pregnancy is one of the great miracles of life and knowledge about how to support it naturally will create a more confident and more pleasant pregnancy and birth.

Applied Phytotherapeutics I

Applied Phytotherapeutics I

Herb I

Welcome to the Wild Rose College Herbology I course. My name is Terry Willard, I'm a Clinical Herbalist. I started practising herbology in a clinical setting during the early seventies. In 1975 I taught the first version of this course. Since then, this course has been taught many times, by myself and others. It now can be taken online through our distance education program.

Herb II

Welcome to Advanced Herbology II
- the Chemistry of Plants . The use of herbs in North America
for medical purposes is experiencing a rapid renaissance.
In March of 1997, Managed Pharmacy Report devoted an
article to the growing interest and demand for botanical
medicines by the public. The implications of this demand
for institutions and individuals in the health care system
are significant. The time to prepare, with education and
a strategy for implementation, is now .

Introduction to Biology & Biochemistry

Introduction to Biology and Biochemistry

Essential Pathology

This course is designed to give you a basic knowledge of pathology, the scientific study of the causes, mechanisms and manifestation of disease. Pathology is very much the basis of modern medicine, and medical doctors will have spent hundreds of hours studying pathology, in the classroom learning theory and in places such as the cadaver lab, where diseased organs and tissues are dissected and analyzed. Although it is a unique discipline, with its own experts and special subjects, it is really a marriage of several different disciplines, from clinical observations (including everything from physical assessment to microscopy to chemistry), to the related field of biology, the study of living processes.

Anatomy and Physiology

Before we can even begin to discuss how the human body works, we first need a model to describe how it exists in time and space. Thus anatomy is our starting point, the study of structure and the relationships that exist between different structures.