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Medical Botany I
Date: 4 Sundays in 2008: Jan 13, 20, 27, Feb 3
Time: 2pm - 4:30pm
Location: New York Botanical Garden - Room 315 - 083BOT470
Cost: Call: NYBG
Learn about herbal traditions as well as specific foods and plants to optimize health. Study the properties of plants used for the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems. Learn about the proper methods for herbal cultivation, harvesting and storage to protect herbal efficacy. Students will learn how to prepare simple herbal formulas.

This is a classroom lecture only. Those interested in classroom as well as fieldwork should consider our Botanical Medicine Program.

Please note that general plant actions (i.e. carminitives, cholagogues, expectorants etc.) will be discussed. Detailed phytochemistry of medicinal plants is not discussed in this class. For those interested in the chemistry of medicinal plants, please see our Phytochemistry class.

For more information about this class please contact us.


This course of offered through the NYBG Continuing Education Program.
Please register directly with NYBG. Phone: 718-817-8747.
For more information about this class e-mail us or call us at 212-532-9322.

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