Starting A Compounding Herbal "Apothecary"

The Holistic Herbalism Podcast

This is the fourth in a series about herbal businesses. These videos cover what each kind of herbal business is and what kind of work you’d be doing, what kinds of education and experience you’ll need to get it started, and a few tips to help you along the way.

This video focuses on building a Compounding Herbal Apothecary – but as you’ll hear right up front, part of this now involves avoiding calling it an “apothecary”, because that word is regulated in every state. 😱 (Don’t worry, Katja has a dozen business-naming suggestions to get you started!)

A compounding apothecary (whatever we call it) is someone who makes custom products for clinical herbalists’ clients and ships them out. That way, a clinical herbalist can focus on clinical herbaling, and someone who makes really great medicines can focus on making the blends that each individual client needs! We don’t have to do it all – we can collaborate with each other! 💓

Interested in starting a different kind of business? Check out our episodes on starting an herbal products business, starting an herb shop, and starting a clinical herbalism business.
The courses mentioned in this episode include:

• The Herbal Business Program – which covers every aspect of GMP compliance, as well as every other part of running your business, from getting registered, paying taxes, and getting insurance to building your website and marketing without selling out – even hiring employees!
• The Family Herbalist Program (Materia Medica + Medicine Making)
• Foundations of Phytochemistry
• Fundamentals of Formulation
• The Community Herbalist Program
• Herb-Drug Interaction & Herb Safety

All of our courses include twice weekly live Q&A sessions and you can ask questions in the discussion thread attached to every lesson – we answer them ever day! Plus we have a student community where you can get support from other business herbies too!

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