
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
- Course Syllabus
- Week 1, Lecture #1: Introduction
- Week 1, Lecture #2: A & P of the skin, part 1
- Week 1, Lecture #3: A & P of the skin, part 2
- Week 1, Lecture #4: Herbal Applications
- Week 1, Lecture #5: Wound Healing
- Week 1, Lecture #6: Wound Healing (2)
- Week 1, Lecture #7: Infection Management
- Week 1, Lecture #8: Inflammation, Angiogenesis and Healing
- Week 1, Lecture #9: Therapeutic Goals of Wound Healing, Acute vs. Chronic Wounds
- Week 1, Lecture #10: Wound complications, Scarring
- Week 1, Lecture #11: Wound Case Study - Venous Ulcers
- Week 1, Lecture #12: Materia Medica
- Short video of several common skin diseases (no sound)
- Week 1 All Slides
- Week 1 - Study Guide # 1
- Week 1 - Study Guide # 2
- Week 2, Lecture #1: Burns
- Week 2, Lecture #2: Burns (part 2)
- Week 2, Lecture #3: Burns (part 3)
- Week 2, Lecture #4: Burns (part 4)
- Week 2, Lecture #5 : Burns (part 5)
- Week 2, Lecture #6: Bacterial Infections of the Skin
- Week 2, Lecture #6: Infections of Skin & Nails
- Week 2, Lecture #7: Infections of Skin and Nails (part 2)
- Week 2, Lecture #8: Viral and Fungal Skin Infections
- Week 2, Lecture #9: HSV Protocols
- Week 2, Lecture #10: Herpes Family Protocols (part 2)
- Week 2, Lecture #11: Roseola, Warts
- Week 2, Lecture #12: Viral and Fungal skin infections
- Week 2, Lecture #13: Fungal skin infections
- Slides for Week 2 (part 1)
- Slides for Week 2 (part 2)
- Week 2 Study Guide #1
- Week 2 Study Guide #2
- Handout (By Dr. Kyla Helm, MD) - Reducing Inflammation
- Week 3 Slides, Lecture 1 - 7
- Week 3 Slides, Lectures 8 - 11
- Week 3 Lecture 1 - Review of Immune System (part 1)
- Week 3 Lecture 2 - Review of Immune System (part2)
- Week 3, Lecture 3 - Eczema
- Week 3, Lecture 4 - SLE, Seborrheic Dermatitis, Scleroderma
- Week 3, Lecture 5 - Psoriasis
- Week 3, Lecture 6 - Rosacea
- Week 3, Lecture 7 - Materia Medica
- Week 3 Lecture 8 - Materia Medica 2
- Week 3 Lecture 9 - Materia Medica 3
- Week 3 Lecture 10 - Materia Medica 4
- Week 3 Lecture 11 - Materia Medica 5
- Week 2 Lecture 12 - Materia Medica 6
- Week 3 Study Guide #1
- Week 3 Study Guide #2
- Week 4 Lecture #1: Skin, Aging and Scarring
- Week 4, Lecture #2: Terms and Definitions
- Week 4 Lecture #3: Moisture, Elasticity, UV Radiation
- Week 4, Lecture #4: UV Radiation and Oxidation
- Week 4, Lecture #5: Skin Inflammation
- Week 4, Lecture #6: Acne and Scarring
- Week 4, Lecture #7: Scarring and Oils
- Week 4, Lecture #8: Questions, Ashwagandha
- Week 4, Lecture #9: Acne and PIH
- Week 4, Lecture #10: Protocols for Scarring
- Week 4, Lecture #11: Review Part 1
- Week 4 Lecture #12: review part 2
- Week 4 Study Guide # 1
- Week 4 Study Guide # 2
- Slides - Week 4 Lectures