Our Naturopathy Online Certification Course offers a comprehensive study of Herbal Medicine, Healing Diets, Holistic Anatomy and Physiology and Iridology, along with supportive naturopathic therapies and lifestyle interventions, providing the full spectrum of modalities for creating holistic self healing programmes in a professional setting.
School of Natural Medicine – Naturopathy Independent Health online course
Nutrition, plant medicine, iridology & naturopathic supportive therapies are taught in-depth:
The Naturopathy Online Certification Course offered by the School of Natural Medicine UK integrates the study of pure Naturopathy, Healing Diets, Herbal Medicine and Iridology.
Our Naturopathy Online Certification Course offers a comprehensive study of Herbal Medicine, Healing Diets, Holistic Anatomy and Physiology and Iridology, along with supportive naturopathic therapies and lifestyle interventions, providing the full spectrum of modalities for creating holistic self healing programmes in a professional setting.
In this comprehensive course you will become expertly attuned to the concept of ‘cause and effect’ – as you learn to use diet, herbal medicine, essential oils, flower essences and supportive therapies to increase health and vitality, and to achieve balance, harmony and wellbeing. This course includes the study of diet and nutrition, cleansing and rejuvenation, supportive herbal treatments, Iridology, the full spectrum of naturopathic treatments and lifestyle, consultation skills, building a practice and more.
Graduates of this course receive the Herbal Medicine Therapist (HMT), Healing Diets Coach (HDC) and Iridology (IrC) certifications, along with the Naturopathy certification (NC), and can join the American Association of Drugless Practitioners (AADP) as a professional member and qualify as a board-accredited Holistic Health Practitioner. You can also join the Complementary Medicine Association and acquire your own practice insurance through Westminster Insurance.
All students who begin with the Naturopathy Online Certification Course can also decide at a later date if they would like to continue their studies to Professional Diploma level by attending all five in-person Immersion Trainings and enrolling in the Self Healing module.
Course topics
• Food and consciousness: emotions, cognition, depression, anxiety, gut health, etc.
• Tissue Salts
• Parasite cleansing
• Vegan diet: philosophy, practical application and menu inspiration
• Health consequences of eating animal products
• Environmental consequences of eating animal products
• Social consequences of eating animal products
• Economic consequences of eating animal products • Meat, dairy and egg replacers in recipes
• Vegan and vegetarian baking
• Food and Ethics
• Factory farming
• Genetically modified foods: health, environmental and economic/societal costs
• The seed industry
• Corporate food
• Litigation and school lunches
• Subsidised GMO farmers vs penalised organic farmers
• Slave labour in the food industry
• Codex Alimentarius
• Food additives
• Public Research – Private Gain: funding for food research/funding policies
• Changing food policies
• Food sovereignty
• Soil and health
• Organic farming: biodynamics and permaculture
• Self healing and independent health
• Creating a practice
• Creating a consultation space
• Practice promotion, websites and marketing
• Practice ethics and codes of conduct
• Consultation skills
• Healing Diets programme creation
• Diet and the immune system
• Lymphatic cleansing
• Diet and the nervous system
• Transition Diets
• Low glycemic diets
• Healing food habits: mealtime stories, food addiction, emotional eating and other eating disorders
• Oils and fats: raw, vegetable, nut and seed, methods of extraction, effects on health
• Creating a healing diets kitchen: tools, cookware
• Conscious eating: awareness, presentation, environment
• Menu inspiration
• Five elements: earth, water, fire, air and ether, and their relationship with diet
• Biological humours of Vata, Pita and Kapha
• The three Gunas and diet
• Six tastes: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter and astringent
• Healing spices: dosha balancing and medicinal benefits of culinary spices
• Living foods: history, benefits and practice
• Fermented food and drinks
• Sprouting
• Dehydrating foods
• Use of nuts and seeds in healing diets
• Raw food diets: transitioning to raw, raw food preparation, nutrient density, raw challenges, raw contraindications
• Assimilation of nutrient
• Diets for babies and children
• Diets for adolescence
• Diet for preparing for pregnancy, pregnancy and nursing
• Diet for health building and recovery
• Supportive diets for those on medication
• Diet for menopause
• Diet for the elderly
• Food and conditions for increasing beauty
• Nutrient density for athletes
• How the body utilises water in cell, organ, gland and systemic function.
• The effects of dehydration
• Water fasting: history, theory and practice
• Water quality, structure and preservation
• Water as a container for intention
• Juice fasting: history, theory and practice. Methods of juicing
• Liquitarian Diets
• Green drinks
• Produce hygiene
• Nutritional and medicinal properties of fruits and vegetables.
• Disease progression: enervation, toxemia, irritation, inflammation, ulceration, induration, fungation
• Steps to overcoming disease
• The eliminative organs and now to support them with diet, herbs and naturopathic therapies
• Detox symptoms and naturopathic treatments
• Bowel cleansing: theory and practice
• Digestive health and longevity
• In-depth study of the digestive system and enteric nervous system
• Liver and gallbladder cleansing: theory and practice
• Stomach cleansing and healing
• Nutritional support for body organs, systems and glands
• Kidney stone cleansing and urinary system support
• Wheatgrass, chlorophyl and Rejuvelac: benefits and use
• Purification Diet
• Food combining
• Alkaline diet: effects of pH on body cells, organs, glands and systems, and on mental and emotional health
• Minerals, vitamins, proteins, starch, fats, sugars, enzymes, antioxidants, phytonutrients pre and probiotics, life force in food, and their roles in body function
Course Features
- Lectures 0
- Quizzes 0
- Duration 10 weeks
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 85
- Assessments Yes