Education inspired by nature
Core College, also known as the Irish School of Herbal Medicine, was founded in 2000 with a mission to provide high-quality, professional training in herbal medicine, organic medicinal herb growing, and other subjects such as organic plant-based living food preparation and natural healing therapies.
Core College
The ethos of the college is centred around plant-based principles. Students are encouraged to fully dedicate themselves to the principles that they study.
The mission of Core College is to facilitate the rebirth of Western medical herbalism and organic medicinal herb growing, as these subjects were taught and practised in a time when people lived in greater harmony with the natural environment.
A unique training in herbal medicine and other subjects
Why Core College
A working clinic on site
Our herbal medicine clinic at the Castlecomer campus is open to the public. Patients present at the clinic with differing health issues, and students participate in consultations.
Bespoke remedies are designed and prepared depending on the patient’s unique situation.
Practical training in the dispensary and gardens
Clinical training takes place in the on-site dispensary and certified organic medicinal herb gardens.
Students encounter a wide range of medicinal herbs in the garden, and learn to formulate tinctures, bowel powders, infusions, decoctions, fomentations, and other preparations.
Taught in person, by practitioners
Tutors who moderate the online delivery of the herbal medicine programme are also Master Herbalists, and each one of them also works as a practitioner at the herbal clinic
Herbal Stories
writing on herbal medicine, organic growing, nutrition, and natural health.
