ICM-Masterclass
How to Treat Psychological and Emotional Distress with Western Herb Combinations
Exhaustion, Depression, Emotional Disturbance, Insomnia
13.12.-14.12.2025
Saturday and Sunday from 9:00 am to 17:00 pm
with Jeremy Ross
Whether your patient is a child, a teen, an adult, or an old person, these four disorders (Exhaustion, Depression, Emotional Disturbance, Insomnia) are often difficult to separate, and difficult to treat.
Jeremy shows how be flexible, and how to vary your daytime and nighttime treatments according to your patient’s changing needs.
Date: 13.12.-14.12.2025, Saturday and Sunday from 9:00 AM to 17:00 PM
Language: english with german subtitles
Location: Live-Webinar (on Zoom)
Price: € 420,- (incl. VAT)
Webinar Content
Exhaustion, Depression, Emotional Disturbance, Insomnia, or all Four?
4 Imbalances
We can say that there are 4 main things that can go wrong with the energy of the body:
- Deficiency not enough energy, with symptoms of exhaustion or physical weakness, so: tonify
- Stagnation there is energy, but the flow is blocked, with symptoms such as obstruction sensations in the chest, or emotional constraint, so move the energy
- Disturbance energy is disturbed or unstable, with emotional symptoms eg. anger or anxiety, so calm the energy
- Excess temporarily too much energy, eg. fever, or too much material, eg. excessive bronchial phlegm, so drain the excessive energy or material
Star ratings
But what if the patient has more than one of these 4 Imbalances? Then you prioritize by giving the disorders star ratings, from 1 to 5, depending on their importance to the patient.
For example:
- exhaustion (Deficiency) 4 stars
- emotional disturbance and insomnia (Disturbance) 3 stars
- depression (Stagnation) 2 stars
Daytime and nighttime prescriptions
Maybe the daytime exhaustion needs a strong sweet tonic stimulant, eg. white ginseng, for the Deficiency and exhaustion, and a strong aromatic moving stimulant, eg. Rosmarinus, for the Stagnation and depression.
But then you cannot give this prescription in late afternoon or at night because it will make the insomnia worse.
So you give the daytime prescription before breakfast, before lunch, and again not later than 15.00.
You also presscribe a nightime prescription for the Disturbance and insomnia, with calming herbs, eg. Humulus or Valeriana. They can take it again if they wake in the night, but not after about 05.00, or it may increase mental dullness or ddepression in the morning.
Prioritization and timing are so important, when treating mixtures of exhaustion, depression, emotional disturbance and insomnia!
Also, the patient’s priorities change with the progress of your treatments. For example, maybe you help the exhaustion, so that then the depression becomes top priority.
And this will change with what is happening in their life, such as boredom and depression from loss of an demanding job, or exhaustion after a difficult childbirth with severe bloodloss.
So stay flexible, and re-prioritize when necessary.
General Informations
Who can benefit from this course? This course is suitable for practitioners with a basic understanding of the organ syndromes of Chinese medicine. For example, acupuncture practitioners, Western herbalists, and Chinese herbalists. No prior training in Western or Chinese herbal medicine is required.
New integrated system of herbal medicine The emphasis in this course is on using Western herbs according to Jeremy’s new integrated system of Chinese medicine, Western herbal tradition, and modern pharmacology.
4 Imbalances and 5 Organs
The heart of this new system is the concept that all illness can be defined in terms of the 4 main things that go wrong with energy of the body: Deficiency, Stagnation, Disturbance, and Excess. The principles of treatment to correct these Imbalances are tonify, move, calm, and drain respectively.
Online app
The ICM Master App is the innovative digital solution for anyone working with Western phytotherapy – developed specifically for alternative practitioners, doctors and therapists. Based on the life’s work of Jeremy Ross, the app combines state-of-the-art technology with in-depth herbal knowledge, making the creation, customisation and management of recipes easier and safer than ever before.
Your advantages at a glance:
- Find the right herbal combination in seconds from over 300 predefined recipes.
- Analyse, customise and prescribe herbal combinations – including all precautions and contraindications.
- Benefit from detailed information on over 120 Western medicinal plants and a unique action group logic.
- Integrate Chinese diagnostics directly into your practice with a structured 4-step process.
- Learn with multimedia courses, case studies and interactive features directly in the app.
By registering for the webinar, you will have the opportunity to use the ICM Master App free of charge for one month. Before the webinar, you will receive an email explaining how to get your free access.
Jeremy Ross Jeremy Ross has a BSc in biology from the University of Birmingham, specializing in plant physiology and biochemistry. He graduated from the National Institute of Medical Herbalists UK in 1982, and gained a doctorate in acupuncture from the British College of Acupuncture in 1985. In 1988 he completed a two-year training in Chinese herbal medicine with Ted Kaptchuk, followed by further training at the International College in Nanjing, China. After 17 years of clinical practice in Bristol, England, he practiced for 10 years in Seattle, USA, and in 2004 returned back to Bristol. For 25 years, Jeremy Ross has specialized on the integration of Western Herbs, Chinese Medicine, and Phytopharmacology. He is the author of three textbooks on this topic.
Location: Live-Webinar (online with Zoom)
Price: € 420,- (incl. VAT)