Practical Tools for Health Assessment

Herbalists and natural healers are prohibited by law from diagnosing disease conditions and prescribing treatments for them. So, how can you legally recommend the products people need to improve their health?

The answer is simple, you can use traditional methods of health assessment that don’t involve diagnosing diseases. These methods do not diagnose disease. They teach you to see how the body is out of balance so you can recommend herbs, diet and lifestyle changes, and other natural methods to restore balance to the body and aid self-healing.

I call this process, health assessment and not only is it a safer way to work legally as an herbalist and natural healer, it’s also a more effective way. That’s because Western medical diagnosis is designed to go hand in hand with Western medical treatments, whereas traditional methods of health assessment are designed to go hand in hand with herbs and other natural remedies.

In Practical Tools for Health Assessment you'll learn, in detail, the process of assessing the various aspects of a person’s health, starting with their constitution, the root causes of illness in their life, their biological terrain and their weak body systems. It provides you with the tools you need to analyze all the aspects of a person’s health.

This comprehensive course provides you with the fundamentals of the following assessment tools:

Glandular Body Typing

A system of recognizing the tendencies to basic health problems and glandular imbalances using a person’s body shape. With glandular body typing you can see general tendencies about a person’s health from the moment you meet them, and know general therapies that will help them be healthier.

Traditional Chinese and Western Constitutional Typing

A person’s personality and their tendency to certain types of health problems go hand-in-hand. Traditional systems of medicine have recognized the existence of constitutional types and have used metaphorical models like the Western four elements (air, water, fire and earth) and the Chinese five elements (wood, fire, earth, metal and water) to describe these types. I introduce these systems of constitutional typing and provide questionnaires you can use to determine a person’s constitutional type.

Basic Tongue Assessment

The tongue reveals a lot about the state of a person’s biological terrain (the internal state of their blood and lymph). From the tongue you can tell if a person’s metabolism is running too hot or too cold, if fluids are moving properly through the system, if they are toxic or congested, if their adrenals are exhausted and other useful information.

Basic Pulse Assessement

Feeling the pulse is one of the most widely used forms of health assessment in all systems of traditional medicine. Although it takes many years to master pulse assessment, the fundamentals are easy to learn. Like the tongue, the pulse tells a lot about the biological terrain of the body. Is the person tense and stressed, is their metabolism running fast or slow, is their condition superficial or chronic, do they need cleansing therapy or building therapy. These are all questions that basic pulse assessment can rapidly answer.

pH Testing

Checking the pH of urine and saliva also tells us a lot about the biological terrain of the body. It tells us about how a person’s kidneys and digestive system are functioning and whether their system is too acid or too alkaline. Balancing a person’s pH promotes healing and maintains good health.

Muscle Response Testing

Also known as applied kinesiology, muscle response testing is a subjective form of biofeedback that can help us determine which organs or body systems are lacking in energy or stressed. It can also help us narrow down exactly which remedies are most likely to restore balance to the system.

The information in Practical Tools for Health Assessment is designed to go hand in hand with the ABC+D Approach to Natural Health Assessment. It builds on the same principles taught in that course but provides more detailed and accurate methods of determining the state of the biological terrain and body systems so remedies can be chosen more quickly and accurately. This course is a must for anyone who wants to be able help people heal.

Learn how to assess the state of people’s health to more accurately determine what herbs and supplements they need by ordering Practical Tools for Health Assessment today.