Herbs for Maintaining Immune & Respiratory Health

Herbs for Maintaining Immune & Respiratory Health is organized by Collaborative Education (CE).

Description:
Dr. Bob Scott provides an in-depth discussion of specifically selected herbs in this 90-minute presentation. This presentation covers a breadth of key concepts ranging from in vitro non-veritas, to heat shock proteins to cytokine storm risk. However, Dr. Scott focuses his discussion on conducting a detailed review of key immune and antiviral herbs including Echinacea, Andrographis, Holy Basil, Astragalus, Artemisia, and Licorice. Curcumin, and St. John’s Wart.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how immune herbs interact with the innate and adaptive immune systems.
• Understand the limitations of in vitro herbal research & the implications for clinical practice.
• Understand the risk of cytokine storm with immune herbs based on current evidence.
• Understand which antiviral herbs are clinically relevant.
• Understand how to prescribe key herbs for each stage of respiratory infection.

Course Topics 
Botanical Medicine, Primary Care