
Sam Coffman
Lead Instructor
About the Instructor
Sam has worked with herbs since 1987 and formally as a clinical herbalist for over 15 years. He served in the military for 10 years of which 6 were as a US Special Forces Medic (aka Green Beret Medic). He is a registered herbalist with the American Herbalists Guild, a Wilderness EMT (WEMT), and a Wilderness First Responder instructor.
Sam is the founder of The Human Path/Herbal Medics Academy and co-founder of Herbal Medics which is the school's outreach organization that works with underserved communities.
His primary goal has become the creation of an integrative medical model that embraces both vitalistic and mechanistic aspects of herbalism into a collaboration with orthodox and energetic models of diagnosis and treatment, to include orthodox western medicine. To this end, he has created and co-created nearly 2000 hours of pathophysiology-based herbal medicine curriculum, and led hundreds of herbal clinics in remote, austere, post-disaster and underserved areas. Also as part of integrating orthodox medicine with plant medicine, Sam regularly works as an herbalist with, teaches with and instructs doctors, nurse practitioners, physicians assistants, nurses, and other licensed health care practitioners.
Course Contents
Course Curriculum
- Video 1.1: Lets Get Started!
- Video 1.2: Introduction to Herbalism Basics
- Resource 1.2: Introduction to Herbalism Basics
- Video 1.3: Herbal Preparations Week 1
- Resource 1.3: Herbal Preparations
- Video 1.4: Materia Medica Week 1
- Resource 1.4: Materia Medica Week 1
- Video 1.5: Vocabulary Week 1
- Resource 1.5 - Vocabulary Week 1
- Resource 1.6: Plant Walk Video Study Guide - Week 1
- Week 1 Live Q&A Recording
- Week 1 Q&A Slides
- Week 1 Q&A Chat Log
- MM Breakdown from Week 1 Live Q&A
- Herbal First Aid Video and Audio Resources
- Video 2.1: Introduction to Herbalism for Beginners
- Resource 2.1: Herbal First Aid - Main Lecture - Week 2
- Video 2.2: Vocabulary Week 2
- Resource 2.2: Vocabulary Week 2
- Video 2.3: Materia Medica Week 2
- Resource 2.3: Materia Medica Week 2
- Suggested Herbalism Books - Titles and Descriptions/Reviews File
- Top 25 Herbs to Consider for Post-Disaster File
- Herbal First Aid Kits (and Trauma First Aid Kits) - Contents List File
- Week 2 Q&A Slides
- Week 2 Live Q&A
- Week 2 Live Q&A Chat Log
- Video 3.1: Main Lecture - Week 3 (Part 1)
- Video 3.2: Main Lecture - Week 3 (Part 2)
- Resource 3.1: Week 2 Main Lecture
- Video 3.3: Vocabulary Week 3
- Resource 3.2: Vocabulary Week 3
- Video 3.4: Materia Medica Week 3
- Resource 3.3: Materia Medica Week 3
- Forest Gardening Class Handout
- Mind Mapping Exercise
- Quiz: Introduction to Herbalism for Beginners