Safety with Chinese Herbs: Protect Your Patients and Yourself

This course reviews key safety issues in prescribing Chinese herbal medicine, including side effects, toxicities, contaminants, herb–drug interactions, and best practices for safe clinical use.

Fred Jennes
Fred Jennes

Course Overview

Please Note: This is a Reading Course.

 

This course covers a wide variety of information on safety issues affecting the prescription of Chinese herbal medicinals. The course discusses various side effects and adverse reactions that are possible with Chinese herbal medicinals, the three major types of toxicity (nephrotoxicity, hepatotoxicity and fetotoxicity), the aristolochic acid issue, contaminants in patent medicines, herb-drug interaction problems, and the best practices for you to use Chinese herbal medicine safely. For additional information you can go to the Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database tool to learn about natural medicines and drug interactions.

Objectives

  • Participants will understand potentials for toxicity in Chinese medicine

  • Participants will understand the three important types of toxicity

  • Participants will understand identify the risk factors predisposing a patient to hepatotoxicity

  • Participants will understand determine under what circumstances a formula may be toxic or create an undesirable interaction with either a Western pharmaceutical product or a Chinese medicinal

Outline

  • 0 hrs - 1.5 hrs

    Reading - The Potential for Toxicity

  • 1.5 hrs - 3 hrs

    Reading - Three Important Types of Potential Toxicity

  • 3 hrs - 4 hrs

    Reading - Assessing Toxicity and Drug Interactions

Teacher

Fred Jennes

Fred Jennes holds BS and MS degrees from Duke University, graduated from Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and is certified in both acupuncture and herbal medicine by the NCCAOM.

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  • Note

    The course contents are available in an online format only; you will not receive a DVD or physical copy – they are only available through the internet in your online account.

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$132

More Details
  • CPDs:

    Approved By: AACMA (4), ANTA (4), ATMS (4), Acupuncture NZ (4), Standard Certificate (4), NCCAOM (4)

  • Language: English

  • Course Type: Reading

  • Course Length: 4 h

  • Course Notes: Notes are provided with this course.

  • Access Period: Lifetime

$132