Natural Health Science
Faculty of Natural Health Science
MODULE: Natural Health Science
Program delivered by distance learning higher education up to a maximum of 60 credits. This module may be combined or completed with other online university courses from this faculty.
DESCRIPTION:
This program recognizes when the conditions for health exists, healing will prevail. Traditional water therapies, herbs, physical medicine and nutrition when properly utilized, can facilitate the self-healing process within the body. The mental, emotional and spiritual connections to various disease states and relative recommendations to overcome these situations will be covered. In addition to employing various natural medicines, students will gain an important perspective of the vital force and its role in the healing process, when used in conjunction with natural health science principles.
Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 credits):
1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credit (30 hours of study).
Natural Health Science
Holistic Nutrition Diets & Fasting Hydrotherapy Medicinal Plants Case Taking & Analysis Human Biology Human Anatomy & Physiology Immunology Physical Therapy Oligotherapy Colon Therapy Natural Medicine Biochemical Organic Balance Orthomolecular Nutrition Therapeutic Physiology Herbology / Phytotherapy Nutritional Intervention Pharmacology & Toxicology Clinical Naturopathy
Academic Supervisor: Ruben Von Stopeck
More information about this supervisor and online university course instructors at BIU Human Network.
This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D. (Doctor) Programs. This distance learning degree program is designed at the postgraduate level – Master’s or Doctoral. This module may be easily adapted to complete the Specialist, Expert or Bachelor’s adult degree program requirements. A further option is the enrollment into the online university courses listed in this module.
* University Course (3 credits): Select 1 subject from this module.
* Specialist Diploma (15 credits): First 5 subjects or select 5 subjects from this module.
* Expert Diploma (21 credits): First 7 subjects or select 7 subjects from this module.
* Bachelor's Degree (130 credits): The Admission certificate issued after submission of the application for admission will show the amount of credit transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete this undergraduate program's major. Additional courses from other modules of this faculty will be assigned in case that the credits displayed on this module are not enough to complete the bachelor's required credits.
* Master's Degree (35 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 13 credits corresponding to a final project to the selected subjects.
* Ph.D. (Doctor) (45 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 18 credits corresponding to a final thesis to the selected subjects.
BIU issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the degree program's major. BIU can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission.
Courses Description (each subject accounts for 3 credits):
Natural Health Science
The philosophy of natural health sciences recognizes that when good conditions for health exist, healing will prevail. Traditional water therapies, herbs, physical therapy and nutrition when properly utilized, can facilitate the self-healing process within the body. This course describes how to recognize underlying root-causes of illness and the principles governing natural health and healing.
Instructor: Ruben Von Stopeck
Holistic Nutrition
This course explores the role of nutrition for a healthy mind, body and spirit, the role of diet in disease prevention and wellness, the interdependence between eating choices and environmental sustainability, and the principles and practical uses of various alternative nutritional approaches. It also explains how to differentiate whole food supplements versus synthetic supplements.
Instructor: Leonie van Heerden
Diets & Fasting
This course provides an analysis and evaluation of various dietary regimes focusing on nutritional, spiritual and social belief systems concerning food: Vegetarianism, macrobiotics, raw food, food combining, and hereditary predisposition. It explains the benefits of fasting and different approaches to tissue cleansing and detoxification. It finally considers mental, emotional, physical and spiritual issues concerning diets and fasting.
Instructor: Leonie van Heerden
Hydrotherapy
This course explains the application of water treatments to reinforce the therapeutic process and the physiological effects of hot and cold as applied to illness and injury. It describes several spa and hydrotherapy treatments including ice therapy, hydrotherapy tub/whirlpool, alternate hot and cold therapies, vichy shower, mud treatments, and fomentation. It also considers water treatments combined with aromatherapy through the use of different inhaled essences.
Instructor: Stefan Batran
Medicinal Plants
This course describes plant botany and plant identification. It covers harvesting, drying techniques, and the preparation of dry and fresh botanical tinctures, salves and others. It provides a detailed survey of plants and plant preparations used in naturopathic practice, integrating traditional herbal knowledge with modern pharmacological research.
Instructor: Ruben Von Stopeck
Case Taking & Analysis
Receiving detailed information from a client is essential to the practice of any therapeutical approach. This course covers the art of case taking: observation and contact skills, methods of communication, questioning, facilitating information and the use of specific recording techniques. It explains how to look deeply into a person's unique symptom picture and cross referencing this with the corresponding therapeutical approach.
Instructor: Alfredo Fernandez Blanco
Human Biology
This course explains the development of cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems integrating molecular biology, genetics, ecology, evolution, and diversity. It covers topics in biology of particular relevance to humans and to human health and disease and describes how the organism is maintained and repaired.
Instructor: Daniel Scott Janik
Human Anatomy & Physiology
This course describes the gross and microscopic structure of each system of the human body and the integration of these systems within the entire body. It explains the organization and function of the human body as a whole and the interrelationships of its various systems.
Instructor: Alfredo Fernandez Blanco
Immunology
This course presents the immune system, including its structure, components, mechanisms, immunological methods, immune response, and inflammation. Clinical immunology will be emphasized, including hypersensitivity, atopy, autoimmunity, and immunodeficiency disorders.
Instructor: Daniel Scott Janik
Physical Therapy
This course provides a comprehensive knowledge of physical therapy for treatment of injuries, bodily weaknesses and defects through physical remedies such as massage, exercise, gymnastics, light, heat, cold, water and mechanical devices. It presents the physiological benefits of exercise in the correction of structural imbalances and the value of stretching, deep breathing, yoga, aerobic and non-aerobic activities for maintaining optimum health.
Instructor: Stefan Batran
Oligotherapy
This course explains how to administer precise amounts of oligo elements to treat different health disorders. Oligotherapy works upon the cell's enzymes by introducing precise low level amounts of specific trace elements which serve to detoxify and reactivate blocked healthy enzyme processes. These elements restore the normal functioning capacity of the cell and enables the body to utilize essential vitamins, minerals and other nutrients to obtain the right healing process.
Instructor: Stefan Batran
Colon Therapy
This course presents the significance of colon hygiene in health recovery and organic aspects such as absorption and assimilation of nutrients, cleansing procedures and detoxification, colon hydrotherapy, parasites and other related pathological disorders. It details the therapeutic programs designed to enhance or alleviate these situations.
Instructor: Leonie van Heerden
Natural Medicine
Nature acts powerfully through healing mechanisms in the body and mind to maintain and restore health. This course explains the utilization of naturopathic methods and natural medicinal substances which work in harmony with the human system in order to facilitate long-lasting health and recovery. It explains the vital force and its role in the healing process when used in conjunction with naturopathic principles.
Instructor: Daniel Scott Janik
Biochemical Organic Balance
Every disease, symptom, discharge, and pain indicates a chemical imbalance in the body. A body that is chemically well-balanced will normalize itself. This course focuses on the chemical elements, their structure and their application, including vitamins, enzymes, proteins, starches, prostaglandins, and minerals found in foods in order to understand the biochemical organic balance from which health and well-being spring.
Instructor: Daniel Scott Janik
Orthomolecular Nutrition
This course presents an analysis of disease etiology (causation) from the perspective of the nutrition of the cell and tissues and details the organic deficiencies and malnutrition caused by the typical modern diet which imbalances our biochemistry. It explains how to recognize these deficiency signs and symptoms and identify good nutritional sources and available forms of dietary supplements for good health.
Instructor: Leonie van Heerden
Therapeutic Physiology
This course explains the mechanisms of action and interaction of the physiological body systems with pathological and clinical considerations. It presents a systems rather than a regional approach which facilitates the therapist focus on the relationship between structures and function.
Instructor: Stefan Batran
Herbology / Phytotherapy
Nature acts through herbs triggering the healing mechanisms in the body and mind to restore health. This course provides an analysis of the properties, functions, principles of combinations, preparation, dosage administration, and contraindications of herbal prescriptions. It describes the utilization of herbs to prepare medicinal substances which work in harmony with the human system, thus facilitating health and recovery.
Instructor: Ruben Von Stopeck
Nutritional Intervention
This course presents the nutritional therapeutic applications in the prevention and treatment of common diseases and disorders. It describes therapeutic diets, dietary manipulation and supplements to help restoring the normal physiological function and structural integrity of the body and its organs by providing its natural components. It explains strategies, counseling skills, and diet modifications to prevent and manage disease.
Instructor: Leonie van Heerden
Pharmacology & Toxicology
This course helps to recognize major drug classifications and their most common applications; the rationale for pharmacological intervention for selected drugs; the use of drug information sources and patient-prescriber interaction; and the principles of toxicological adverse effects, drug interaction and drug abuse.
Instructor: Daniel Scott Janik
Clinical Naturopathy
This course provides the identification of the pathology and etiology of certain disease states and their symptomatology along with an overview of the physiological function and imbalances of the human system. It shows various holistic health modalities, nature cures and their corresponding methods of treatment.
Instructor: Ruben Von Stopeck
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