Wilderness Herbal First Responder Course - 84 Hours

The total cost for this course is now $850 and includes a textbook and course materials. $300 is a required deposit to sign up and the balance is due prior to start of the class.

The Wilderness Herbal First Responder is over 80 hours of Wilderness First Aid combined with remote and post-disaster herbalism. The WHFR also includes a 32-hour WFA certification card through the Emergency Care and Safety Institute (ECSI).

This is the merging of the worlds of remote or post-disaster medicine (“ditch medicine”) with the world of herbalism and includes most of the herbal information and all (plus some) of the hands-on experience of the Herbal Medic Basic course. PLUS, this course includes all of the wilderness first responder curriculum that allows the student to be a competent first aid provider right from the get-go in the case of illness, injury or even chronic health issue.

This course is geared toward a number of different types of students:

• The outdoor enthusiast, camp counselor, outdoor recreational employee who wants in-depth training on injury and illness management in the field.

• The camper, hiker or rock-climber who wants more much more intensive learning, geared toward outdoor environments, than a standard first aid course.

• The prepper (disaster preparedness) who wants to be self-sufficient medically and not even necessarily reliant on orthodox pharmaceuticals.

• The herbalist who wants higher intensity training across the board from wilderness first aid to herbal medicine in a remote environment.

• The emergency medicine professional who wants to expand his/her horizons into indefinite medical care that includes botanical medicines (field herbalism).

What would you do if there WAS no “higher definitive medical care?”
In most severe natural disasters, the hospitals and clinics are the first buildings to be ransacked for medical supplies and pharmaceuticals. In a true primitive environment, you might not have any medications or pharmaceuticals available to you for hours, days, weeks or even months.

The Human Path Wilderness Herbal First Responder course combines the savvy of Special Forces field medicine (aka “ditch medicine”) together with 20+ years of clinical herbalism experience in the field, on the street and in a clinical environment.

The WHFR includes a Wilderness First Responder manual as well as a Wilderness Herbal First Responder Manual (written by Sam Coffman) and is highly geared toward hands-on learning while combining plant medicine with primitive field first aid situations that are specific to both remote and post-disaster situations where there the care may need to last for an unknown amount of time. Local plant identification, preparation, preservation and usage is a part of this class, along with learning a basic material medica of over 50 medicinal plants, clinical assessment procedures, patho-physiology geared toward plant-medicine options and much more.

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COURSE DETAILS

WHFR DATES: February 25 - March 6, 2015. *most course material will be taught between 9 and 5pm, although there will be at least one scenario run during nighttime. Students can leave for evenings if they want to, or camp out.

LOCATION: San Antonio outdoor classroom campus, plus possibly other locations in the area. Camping is available to all registered students and a field kitchen will be open for use.

TUITION: The full 80-hour course is $850. This will include necessary textbook and certification materials. Students are responsible for their own meals. A $300 non-refundable deposit is required to hold a space in the course and secure materials.

** Students signing up for the full March block of classes are eligible for a tuition package discount. Email suchil at thehumanpath dot com for the information on this.

REGISTRATION: click here to complete registration for this course. (https://squareup.com/market/the-human-path/wilderness-herbal-first-responder-hour-course)

PRE-REQUISITES: none.

PROGRAM INFORMATION: Completion of the WHFR, the Primitive Core Basic and the Combat Medic "bridge weekend" (run during the weekend following this WHFR) satisfies the Combat Medic and the Herbal Medic Level 1 requirements.

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The WHFR is taught both from the perspective of pure wilderness first aid techniques as well as being able to successfully rely on and work with plant medicine both in the local ecosystem (primarily focused on Southwest USA) as well as using self-prepared herbs from elsewhere around the world.

The WHFR covers the following subjects and more – All subjects contain orthodox, wilderness first responder treatment as well as the use of botanical medicine (internally and externally). Exercises and scenarios put every subject to test for all students.

• Field Hygiene and Sanitation

• Sports medicine injury testing and care, short-term and long-term: Dislocations, partial and complete connective tissue tears, fractures

• Immediate and long-term wound care in the field

• Environmental injuries

• Bone and soft-tissue trauma

• Long-range evacuation – Survival basics and considerations: Stretchers, Travois, Carries, Helicopter landing zone marking

• Setting up a post-disaster or remote clinic

• Shock

• Burns

Acute infectious diseases – viral, bacterial, protozoan and helminthic:

· Gastrointestinal

· Urinary Tract

· Respiratory Tract

· Skin

Chronic Illnesses in the field

• Type 1 and 2 diabetes

• Hypertension and cardiovascular-related

• Arthritis

• Digestive Issues (GERD, Ulcers, IBS, etc.)

• Depression and emotional issues

• COPD