Herbal Safety, Dosing & Drug Interactions - 2026

This is an online course. You can participate from anywhere you have an internet connection.

6 contact hours · 2 weeks · 2 hours of recorded lecture + 2-hour supplemental live session

This course covers safety fundamentals that herbalists, wellness practitioners, and family caregivers all need — no prior experience required. Come away with the knowledge and vocabulary to use herbs responsibly, at every age and life stage.

What This Course Covers

This course covers herbal safety from pregnancy through elder polypharmacy, with practical frameworks for dosing, drug interactions, and contraindications at every stage of life.

Topics include:

• Common pharma-herb reactions: anticoagulants, antidepressants, thyroid medications, immunosuppressants, and more
• How to use current, evidence-based online databases to look up interactions in real time
• Pediatric dosing: core frameworks and key safety principles
• Pregnancy and postpartum: the most critical contraindications to know
• Polypharmacy awareness for elders
• Communicating herbal safety clearly to clients, patients, and families

Who is this course for?

You belong here if you are:

• A parent, caregiver, or community member who wants to use herbs safely for your family
• A practicing herbalist looking to formalize and deepen your safety knowledge
• A health or wellness professional — nurse, doula, midwife, health coach, or similar — integrating plant medicine into your work
• A student beginning a formal herbalism program

No prerequisites required. No prior herbal or medical knowledge is assumed. If you want to expand your knowledge on working with herbs and western medicine together, you're ready for this course.

What you will leave with

By the end of two weeks, you will be able to:

• Apply pediatric dosing frameworks with confidence, understanding the reasoning behind adjustments for age and weight
• Identify the most common and most dangerous herb-drug interactions, particularly for people who are pregnant, elderly, or managing chronic conditions
• Recognize red-flag situations that call for referral to a qualified medical provider
• Navigate leading online safety databases to look up current interaction data
• Communicate herbal safety clearly to clients, patients, or family members
• Approach every subsequent herbal study with a safety-first mindset

This course is the entry point to the Family Herbalist Program and a natural next step from the Introduction to Herbal Medicine for Beginners. No prior herbal knowledge required.

COURSE INFORMATION

Dates: This is a 2 week course beginning on September 21st, 2026. All materials will be made available for download.

Live Session Schedule:

*All live classes are scheduled for 7pm CST and will be recorded.

Your Live Session: September 29th, 2026, 7pm CST.

Registration will remain open until Sept. 28th, 2026.

The online classroom will close 4 weeks after the completion of the course.

TUITION INFORMATION

Early Bird Tuition: $65 until 8/15/26. (processing fees apply.)

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Regular Tuition: $80 (processing fees apply.)

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