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Herbal Medicine, Homeopathy and Aromatherapy

81 Hours – 9 Days | 12000 AED

Teaching language: Arabic / English - according to the student’s choice.

Delivery: Face to Face / Online / Hybrid

Audience

This study program is intended for all horse and animal lovers, for riders, for horse owners, for veterinarians, for stable workers, and for those working in all equine therapeutic fields. With the aim of treating and caring for your horse, or the horses under your responsibility, and also to acquire new effective therapeutic tools, develop your profession, stand out from other practitioners and acquire professions that are in great demand in the labor market, with international certificates from the leading institutions in the field and for the first time in the country.

About the program

This training is based on the science of Zoopharmacognosy (self-selection). Students completing this training can use herbal medicine with their own horses or those in their care, such as racing trainers and horse owners. This training helps animals to heal themselves physically and emotionally using herbal (botanical) compounds – essential oils, floral waters, herbs, minerals and more.

Animals have been doing “Zoopharmacognosy” for centuries, but humans removed this ability for horses when we domesticated them and placed them in paddocks and stables. Through this training, you can bring the outside world to the horse and allow it to make choices for its own self-healing and self-medication. We have worked with many horses with the following problems, all with great success: gastric, ulcers, mud fever, arthritis, injuries, muscular, laminitis, hormonal imbalances, bladder, liver, kidney and first aid. We also have success of working with stable vices, confidence issues, separation anxiety and much more.

Zoopharmacognosy refers to the innate ability with which animals have self-medicated in the wild in order to ensure survival throughout their evolution. The word Zoopharmacognosy was coined by Prof Eloy Rodriguez from Cornell University, NY, USA and key researchers in the field includes Prof Michael Hoffman from Kyoto University, Japan and Prof Villalba at the Department of Wildland Resources, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA.

Applied Zoopharmacognosy has developed as an approach designed to replicate a similar opportunity for domesticated animals within our care. In essence, it is an observational science enabling the student/practitioner to tap into the horse's innate ability to identify and self-select plant extracts in order to restore and maintain health. Students and practitioners do not diagnose or administer but offer according to presenting symptoms and/or veterinary diagnosis.

For example, when working with a horse with a tendon injury, a student offers herbal extracts, which are known anti-inflammatories, analgesics, cellular rejuvenators along with extracts often selected for physical trauma. Careful observations of responses and selections are recorded and the subsequent choice of herbal extracts offered are made in response to these observations. The student then continues to offer in subsequent sessions, varying extracts as the horse’s condition/symptoms change, until extracts are no longer selected. This period can be anything from hourly as in the case of acute conditions such as choke/colic or daily in the case of chronic conditions such as COPD/RAO. As well as physical conditions, behavioral issues such as aggression, anxiety and phobias are also addressed using this methodology.

This blended learning program offers students the opportunity to gain theoretical knowledge and practical skills to use the Applied Zoopharmacognosy (AZ) approach with horses under their care. This includes the four methods of equine self-administration, sequential and simultaneous selection. Students will learn about the contraindications, health and safety issues (for horse and student alike) and ethical issues of this methodology.

They will become familiar with the Zoopharmacognosist’s Kit, which is an extensive collection of herbal extracts including essential oils, floral waters, CO2 extracts, powders, minerals and dried herbs and flowers. Each category of extract has different methods of offering to equines and students will practice these.

Following on from the foundational work, the program will explore in more depth areas such as barriers to success and how AZ can be combined with other modalities such as energy work, chiropractic, physiotherapy and so on, as part of an integrated healthcare approach. Students will also learn how to use AZ in emergency situations such as choke, castings and colic.

On completion of this program, students will be able to confidently ‘Offer’ extracts according to presenting symptoms as per veterinary diagnosis in order to support horses in their care to maintain and restore health.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this program the students will be able to:

• Describe the scientific foundations of Zoopharmacognosy and be aware of current research with both wild and domestic animals.

• Create the optimal environment for a horse to be able to self-medicate.

• Evaluate the horses presenting symptoms in order to make an educated decision on the starting point for offering.

• Understand the constituents of ‘The Kit’ including their medicinal properties and the most effective method of offering each extract according to horses - inhalation, ingestion, topical application or olfaction.

• Practically demonstrate their ability to choose and offer plant extracts to horses effectively, observe and record the reactions of the horse to their selection and adapt the session (and follow up sessions) with that horse accordingly.

• Respond effectively in an emergency or first aid situation with a horse.

Homeopathy course will cover the fundamental principles of homeopathy and treatment for their horse in a first aid and acute situation. Each student will learn how homeopathic remedies are made and the implications of each potency. The student will learn the history and background of Homeopathic medicine covering classical and practical application. The nature of health and disease. The difference between acute and chronic disease state. How the vital force of each individual effects our immunity and presentation of symptoms. We will cover the essence and keynotes of polycrest remedies looking in detail at the differences between them.

Each student will develop a good understanding of the 50-remedy homeopathy first aid and acute kit and become confident with how and when to prescribe a well indicated remedy for their own horse. At the end of the course, we will enjoy looking at equine cases and consider which is the most appropriate remedy, dose and potency by end of the course the student shall be confident with how when to prescribe for their own horse.

Aromatherapy is the practice of using essential oils for therapeutic benefit. Aromatherapy has been used for centuries. When inhaled, the scent molecules in essential oils travel from the olfactory nerves directly to the brain and especially impact the amygdala, the emotional center of the brain.

Essential oils are basically plant extracts. They're made by steaming or pressing various parts of a plant (flowers, bark, leaves or fruit) to capture the compounds that produce fragrance. It can take several pounds of a plant to produce a single bottle of essential oil.

In addition to creating scent, essential oils perform other functions in plants, too. In the wild a horse would seek out the appropriate plants, soils, herbs, barks, resins and clays to prevent or reduce the harmful effects of pathogens and toxins and keep them bodies and well-being in balance.

Essential Oils are pure natural herbal remedies, and the horse can instinctively recognize the medicinal properties of the essential oils they are being offered and select the ones appropriate to their needs, whether that be a physical, psychological or emotional need.

This programme is designed to give students a strong understanding of the uses and actions of a wide variety of essential oils and a strong foundation in aromatherapy and the use of essential oils that can be applied in a range of different ways.The scientific evidence base will be explored both in terms of how essential effect the body and what action individual essential oils have.

Each student receives the “Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology” worth 10,000 dirhams, for free!

Combined Program: 3 Professions in 1 course!

Certification by Ryada Training Center - The American University in the Emirates, Dubai Racing Club, AUEDI Training Center, Dubai Equestrian Club and the International Association for Complementary Medicine (CMA) located in London, UK.

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Syllabus
Lecture 1	How animals heal themselves Zoopharmacognosy Human self-selection Conditions when horses might self-select. The difference between self-selection and supplementing the horse’s diet
Lecture 2	Working within the Law Introduction to Aromatherapy, how to use with equines, what the different scents can help with. history of aromatherapy and how does it work. Therapeutic herbal actions – adaptogens to vulneraries Chemistry of essential oils – monoterpenes etc. Starter kits and Materia medica for all compounds. Essential Oils Storage, safety etc.
Lecture 3	Recognizing positive and negative signs of selection. Routes of self-administration: Olfaction, inhalation, ingestion and topical application, sequential and simultaneous offering. Creating the Space, understanding and identifying. Aromatic waters. Herbs and minerals.
Lecture 4	Demonstration and opportunity to practice on horses. Massage techniques to use with aromatherapy oils. Massaging with oils.
Lecture 5	Releases and Processing, introducing working with Trauma. The science of opening the door for engagement. Considerations for offering, difficult cases. Working with triggers. Working with trauma. Emergencies and First Aid – Colic, Choke, Cast, Stress, Wounds.
Lecture 6	The Zoopharmacognosist’s herbal kit, impact on horse’s nervous system and physiology: Working with Essential oils, floral waters, CO’2, herbs and minerals
Lecture 7	Contraindications, Awareness of Controlled/Banned substances under FEI regulations. Health & Safety issues. Obstacles to Success. Energy networks – Human/Horse Energy Network. Mind/body connections.
Lecture 8	Essential oils commonly selected by horses and materia medica. Macerated oils Plant remedies versus food The session – reactions, do’s and don’ts Horse owner consultation record Goals Filmed session. De brief
Lecture 9	Prepare for practical’s – discuss “Initial Core Remedies Guide for Equine Wellness” and Data Sheets. Show more films of equine self-selection. Take case history of horses and demonstration of self-selection. Students take case history of horses and practice self-selection
Lecture 10	The five-element theory of equine welfare. The five elements questionnaire. Natural health for horses - medical gardens. Natural health for horses - plants and potions.
Lecture 11	What is Homeopathy? The History of Homeopathy history of Hahnemann classical and practical homeopathy. What is Health? What is disease state? Vital Force, the body's natural ability to heal. Basic Principles of Homeopathic Practice. Law of Similar. Law of Cure. How remedies are made. Potency and the differences between them.
Lecture 12	Homeopathy: Chronic. Acute and First Aid Situations. A thorough understanding of the differences between chronic. acute and first aid scenarios when treating your horse. When to prescribe and when to call the vet. What to look for when treating your horse. Remedy keynotes. Differential diagnosis between close remedies. Dose and frequency When to repeat. when to change remedies. Understanding the importance of the natural hierarchy mental, emotional, and physical symptoms.
Lecture 13	Homeopathy: Materia Medica - to include the remedy pictures. essence, and keynotes of the major Poly crest remedies often seen in equine acute and first aid situations. Common first aid and acute scenarios when working with horses. How to differentiate between common symptoms in first aid situation and acute illness and compare them to each individual symptom picture of the horse Looking at general symptoms, keynotes, the strange. rare, and peculiar indicators, and consider the mental. emotional and physical signs displayed by each horse.
Lecture 14	Homeopathy: How to take the equine case. Considering the normal behavior of the horse verses the change. Vital signs. The owner or trainer knows their horse best. Use your senses. Take note of them. Subtle changes. How to give your horse a homeopathic remedy. Practical case taking. Putting into practice all we have learned. Ethics and relevant law as per each country. Further study and recommended reading.
Lecture 15	Chemical compounds found in essential oils: their effects, indication and contraindication. A Chinese Medicine Approach. Key concepts in TCM: Qi Yin and Yang The Vital Substances The spirits The organs Causes of Disease Patterns of Disease Basics of diagnostic techniques. ** Fragrance Energetics.
Lecture 16 + 17	A Review of approx. 50 commonly used essential oils. A review of carrier oils and other base products. The treatment of common diseases with the help of treatment with aromatherapy, homeopathy and medicinal herbs.
Lecture 18	Blending essential oils. Making aromatherapy products. considerations and safety. Follow-up: The treatment of common diseases with the help of treatment with aromatherapy, homeopathy and medicinal herbs.