Integrative medical sciences for the modern practitioner.

Dr Arno Kroner DAOM IFMCP LAc bridges traditional botanical wisdom and modern clinical science, helping make the chemistry of life accessible, clinically useful, and intellectually rigorous for a new generation of practitioners.

“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.”

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Classes

A first look at the Academy catalog, beginning with Duì Yào and expanding into interactive and integrative training formats.

Featured Class

Duì Yaò - The Art and Science of Herb Pairings

This course explores the intricate dynamics of herbal combinations, focusing on Duì Yaò (herb pairs) as the fundamental building blocks of Chinese medicine formulas. Students will investigate the synergy between substances, transitioning from isolated herb knowledge to understanding how chemical interactions and biological vectors drive clinical efficacy. There is an extensive online component with interactive tools, case studies and other activities and presentation modules.

$65 (6 NCBHAM PDAs)

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Clinical Tool

Biomology

Explore the human microbiome across time and enter BiomeLab, a clinical interpretation tool for stool data, patient context, case studies, references, and exam practice.

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Functional LabNodes

Open the interactive LabNodes tool for systems-based clinical maps, integrated physiology diagrams, and visual thinking tools that complement clinical practice and functional medicine study.

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Learning Tool

FM Practice Questions Bank

A dedicated library of over 1100 practice questions designed to help learners prepare for FM exams with more structure, repetition, a performance review dashboard, and personalized feedback (includes free access to LabNodes).

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Duì Yào Interactive Tools

Explore the interactive Dui Yao study tools for reviewing classical herb pairs, functional relationships, and formula logic Duì Yào Composer©..

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Teaching Archive

Medical Presentations

Browse the Google Slides teaching archive in one place, with thumbnails that switch the live presentation across trauma, endurance, dermatology, oncology support, and post-operative recovery topics.

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Focused Workshop

Sleep Workshop

An interactive workshop focused on sleep, recovery, and practical strategies for improving restorative function through a more integrative lens.

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Faculty Profile

Arno’s academic work is centered on translation: bringing together classical herbal thinking, modern immunology, and applied biochemistry in ways that remain clinically relevant for 21st-century practice.

20+ Years Evolving

Two decades of development in teaching, diagnosis, and case-based learning.

3 Core Domains

Herbology, immunology, and biochemistry as interlocking teaching pillars.

1 Clinical Aim

Helping practitioners understand the “why” behind clinical decision-making.

Core Teaching

The Academy work draws from a faculty profile grounded in rigorous science, herbal literacy, and clinical reasoning that remains usable in real practice.

Herbology

Pharmacognosy with classical depth.

Teaching focused on pharmacognosy and the logic of Duì Yaò pairing, helping students connect traditional botanical intelligence with modern clinical application.

Immunology

From innate defense to autoimmunity.

A teaching lens that tracks immune complexity from foundational physiology through chronic inflammatory and autoimmune conditions, always tied back to clear case interpretation.

Biochemistry

Metabolic pathways as clinical language.

Biochemistry taught not as abstraction, but as the bedrock of clinical nutrition, therapeutic strategy, and systems-based understanding.

Teaching the clinical “why.”

The faculty profile reflects an educational evolution shaped by more than content delivery. The emphasis is on helping students understand why a pattern matters, why a diagnosis unfolds the way it does, and why a given intervention becomes clinically useful.

That creates practitioners who are more comfortable moving between theory, mechanism, and bedside reasoning rather than memorizing isolated facts.

Rigorous, supportive, and translational.

The profile describes an academic role committed to training practitioners who can move comfortably between botanical constituents and biochemical pathways, classical frameworks and contemporary evidence.

The aim is a learning environment that remains rigorous without losing support, clarity, and clinical relevance.