Menstrual Cycle-Tracking & Herbal Medicine for Practitioners
Learn about specific health conditions connected to hormone imbalances. Equip yourself with herbal treatments to alleviate symptoms and restore hormonal harmony in your patients.
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Meet your course instructor
Krista Dawn Poulton | Medical Herbalist, DIP PHYT, RHT
Krista Dawn Poulton is a Medical Herbalist in Victoria, BC. She balances her private practice as a faculty member at Pacific Rim College, teaching courses in herbal medicine and medicine making, along with supervising clinical training. Her mission with her practice is to teach women to love and adore their bodies, address societal norms of body awareness, and educate ways to shift reproductive issues with the use of herbs, diet and supplements. Krista’s clinical practice focuses primarily on reproductive health from post-birth control care, fertility planning to infertility, endometriosis, fibroids and PCOS.
Course description
This course was designed to complement Krista’s other course, Women’s Health – Female Anatomy, Hormones And Cycle-Tracking which provides an overview of anatomy and hormones to set a strong foundation. We suggest taking these courses together if you need a review of these systems.
In this course, Krista presents menstrual cycle-charting, a tool for practitioners to assess reproductive pathologies with their patients and manage these conditions. Within the menstrual cycle chart, you will be able to identify the follicular and luteal phase pathologies including progesterone deficiency leading to recurrent miscarriages, anovulatory cycles leading to infertility or PCOS and estrogen dominance leading to fibroids and endometriosis.
Anatomy and pathology are covered for each condition, outlining the prevalence and the key identifying features for differential diagnosis. Krista will also discusses transitions in a woman’s life with puberty, fertile years and perimenopause / menopause. Treatment protocols focusing on herbal, supplemental and nutritional/lifestyle treatment protocols for common reproductive pathologies such as post-birth control pill amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhea, premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), hormonal acne, fibroids, endometriosis, and infertility.
Herbal protocols also are presented for transitions in a woman’s life through puberty, fertility years and perimenopause/menopause.
You will learn about:
- The causes of hormonal disruption
- The anatomy and physiology of the reproductive and hormonal system
- Identifying the follicular and luteal phase pathologies using the menstrual cycle chart
- Progesterone deficiency leading to recurrent miscarriages
- Anovulatory cycles leading to infertility
- PCOS and estrogen dominance leading to fibroids and endometriosis
- Herbal and supplement treatment protocols to treat reproductive pathologies

Lesson plan
Students are saying…
“Excellent. I’m increasing my knowledge on menstrual health in preparation to be a menstrual coach. It was a great course; everything is explained in detail and easy to understand.”
“I registered for this course to gain more knowledge as a herbalist. It was beyond my expectations! Really good—super interesting, very dense and a bit complicated.”
“It was wonderful—very informative. I learned a lot. I’m a wellness coach specializing in women’s hormone health, so this course aligned with what I do to help me better help my clients. I found the treatment protocols of specific conditions and the overview of each condition most helpful.”
“This course was great because it had a good combination of learning styles included. I was very excited every day to learn more within this course, review my notes, and get set up for class. I found the teacher’s voice and the follow-along notes to be the most useful.”
If you are looking to add herbal medicine to your healing journey, Krista will make you feel empowered every step of the way. Notable improvements that I have observed from patients, or experienced firsthand, have included issues ranging from infertility and amenorrhea, to support for coming off of the birth control pill and post-abortion care, to name a few.
Loved it. Learned so much, very high quality, have already recommended the course to friends and colleagues.
Excellent. Very useful & informative. The temperature I have never taken the time to understand, so simplified. Excited to bring this knowledge to my patients.
“This course will be so incredibly useful for my fertility awareness education. I provide cycle chart reviews for my clients in regards to avoiding pregnancy and getting pregnant with fertility awareness. I will be able to use the information in this course for even more in-depth chart reviews and insights on the health of the folks I work with. The quality was very high. The videos were great quality.”
“She does a wonderful job. Very intelligent. Loved it and will listen to it again.”
“Very informative and must-have information for any practitioner in women’s health. Fills in many gaps currently happening in women’s care. High quality, the instructor is clearly very experienced in this area.”
“Great course in herbal medicine that will help me in my nutritional practice a lot.”
“Thorough, very useful detailed endocrine information that helps clarify which treatment protocols to use in practice.”
“Comprehensive instruction. Very calm teacher, learnt a lot and beautifully articulated slides.”
Please note, this elective course is for PRC Campus students only.